Massachusetts, Maryland, Vermont, Connecticut and New Jersey were some of the states that ranked high in the assessment., while states like West Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma ranked at the bottom of the list.

The father of a Massachusetts man arrested last month for impersonating a police officer in Hempfield is behind bars after state police said he used a housing authority’s credit card to book hotel rooms in Unity,

Maryland was one of more than 20 states who sued the Trump administration over NIH payments in Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. National Institutes of Health, and also one of more than 20 states in New York State et al v.

Maryland is ranked second among the most educated states in America, according to a study by WalletHub. WalletHub's study compared the 50 states across 18 metrics that examined factors of well-educated populations; educational attainment; school quality; and achievement gaps between genders and races.

Massachusetts AG Andrea Campbell joins fight to stop the Trump administration from ‘dismantling’ the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau

Legislators in Annapolis are currently considering legislation, H.B. 661, that, if passed, would provide faculty at the state’s four-year higher education institutions with the right to engage in collective bargaining on issues like wages, hours, benefits and other working conditions.