Hearings could help decide how many of thousands of convictions tainted by Farak's testing may be overturned.

Kevin O’Loughlin is wrestling with the Massachusetts attorney general’s office for compensation under a 2004 law that grants damages for the wrongly convicted.

A Massachusetts judge granted a hearing to examine whether police tampered with evidence in the case of Darrell Jones, convicted three decades ago for a…

The FDA is delaying a major effort to bring thousands of genetic tests under its purview.

Massachusetts regulators received 95 reports of alleged abuse and neglect at residential special education schools since July 1, according to the state’s Department of Early Education and Care.

Top Massachusetts education officials are scheduled to testify at a hearing focusing on questions of abuse, neglect and taxpayer funding of the state’s private special educational schools.

Virtually all of the individual donations for the state ballot issue on charter schools has gone toward supporting the measure.

The Chamberlain International School, a private residential school facing allegations of student abuse, paid more than $800,000 to entities controlled by…

Mary O’Connor had long wanted researchers to decipher her genetic code to better understand a deadly heart condition that runs in her family. But the…

Lawmaker will reach out to regulators to learn more about oversight of private schools funded with taxpayer dollars.