en News 15 Friday, Nov. 20 ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New York's top court ruled Thursday that gay couples legally married elsewhere are entitled to some government benefits, boosting stalled legislative efforts to legalize same-sex marriage.]]> Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 19 BOSTON (AP) -- Gov. Deval Patrick urged the Massachusetts Legislature on Wednesday to suspend its rules and stay in session as long as needed to pass an education-overhaul bill, but the House speaker balked.]]> Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 19 BOSTON (AP) -- A Massachusetts man accused in a terror plot to kill Americans should be detained in a federal jail away from other inmates while he awaits trial on terror charges because his actions have demonstrated ongoing support for terrorism and he is a flight risk, a federal judge ordered Wednesday.]]> Associated Press Monday, Nov. 16 CHELSEA (AP) - It seemed like a given that Mario Rodas would go to college.]]> Associated Press Friday, Nov. 13 BOSTON (AP) -- Financial disclosure forms filed by Attorney General Martha Coakley in her bid for the U.S. Senate offer an unusual revelation: Despite a six-figure salary, she has no reportable assets worth over $1,000.]]> Associated Press Friday, Nov. 13 BOSTON -- Democratic Senate candidate Stephen Pagliuca said during a radio debate Thursday that he favored reinstating the military draft as a means of ensuring everyone sacrificed for their country, but reversed course two hours later, saying he misheard the question.]]> By Glen Johnson, Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 12 NEW YORK (AP) -- The doors to Mayor Michael Bloomberg's dreams for Coney Island finally flew open Wednesday with the city's purchase of almost seven acres of the Brooklyn waterfront after years of tough talks with a developer.]]> Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 12 BOSTON (AP) -- Seven men who had just attended a friend's funeral and were wearing tuxedos when they beat a man to death outside a Boston nightclub have been charged with second-degree murder, prosecutors said Wednesday.]]> Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 12 ALBANY (AP) -- Tougher punishment for driving drunk with a child passenger remains a dream of a brokenhearted father after political disagreement in Albany stalled "Leandra's Law."]]> Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 12 BOSTON (AP) -- The driver of a Boston subway train that stopped just inches short of a woman who had fallen onto the tracks says she expected the worst. ]]> Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 12 EASTON, Conn. (AP) -- The star attraction at New York's Rockefeller Center this Christmas will be a 76-foot Norway spruce from Connecticut.]]> Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 12 CAMBRIDGE -- Harvard University's reputation for academic excellence took a back seat to the battlefield bravery of its alumni as the Ivy League institution on Veterans Day honored 12 recipients of the Medal of Honor, the most from any university other than the military service academies.]]> By Bob Salsberg, Associated Press Thursday, Nov. 12 RANDOLPH (AP) -- Vermont has paid a bigger price than any other state in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.]]> Associated Press Wednesday, Nov. 11 BOSTON -- The worst of the recession may be over, but a new economic forecast points to a "slow and weak recovery" in the New England states, with job losses likely to continue until the fourth quarter of 2010.]]> Associated Press Tuesday, Nov. 10 BOSTON (AP) -- Martha Coakley and the three other Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate traded barbs Monday after Coakley said she would have voted against a major health care reform bill because it contained an anti-abortion amendment.]]> Associated Press