State senator wins special election
BOSTON – Democrat Katherine Clark has defeated three opponents to win a special election to fill a vacant Massachusetts congressional seat.
The state senator from Melrose will be only the fifth woman to represent Massachusetts in the U.S. House.
The 5th Congressional District seat became vacant earlier this year after Edward Markey won a special election to fill John Kerry’s Senate seat. Kerry had stepped down to become secretary of state.
Judge rejects mistrial in BP engineer’s case
NEW ORLEANS – A federal judge has refused to declare a mistrial in the case of former BP drilling engineer charged with obstruction of justice following the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
In a filing Tuesday, defense lawyers for Kurt Mix said prosecution questioning of witness Wilson Arabie on Monday improperly raised issues of whether Mix ordered copies made of spill-related documents in order to eliminate possibly incriminating hand-written notes made in some of the margins.
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