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BOSTON -- Maria Lopez could soon become Judge Lopez once again -- on television. Lopez, a former Massachusetts judge who resigned amid controversy over her conduct on the bench, is now being courted as a candidate for a legal television program in the same vein as "The People's Court" or "Judge Judy," according to her lawyer and her agent. George N. Tobia Jr., Lopez's attorney, said that he had been approached by an unnamed television network about finding a candidate for a legal program -- and Lopez immediately came to mind. "She was the first one who came to mind....

DUXBURY - The parent of a Duxbury Middle School student wants a book banned because he believes it teaches hatred toward Arabs. George Shamma filed a formal complaint about the use of ‘‘One More River'' by Lynne Reid Banks in his daughter's reading class after she came to him upset about passages that use expletives and slurs to describe Arabs. He wants it out of the seventh grade reading curriculum and said he may take legal action if it isn't. Use of the book is being reviewed, Superintendent of Schools Eileen Williams said. She said the book has been part...