Philip Chism, convicted of killing Danvers teacher Colleen Ritzer, will not get a new murder trial or be resentenced.

Aggrieved litigants can’t compel the Massachusetts attorney discipline board to give lawyers a slap on the wrist, the state’s Supreme Judicial Court held.

The town manager of Holden has agreed to submit a plan to bring the town into compliance with a state law intended to create more multifamily housing. Lawyers for Civil Rights, which filed a lawsuit ...