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Catholic parents in Massachusetts are fighting for custody of their trans teen whom they say authorities illegally snatched from their care for secret gender-affirming treatments. Joseph and Arlene Kutzko are completely cut off from their 17-year-old daughter Sophie, whom child protective services removed from their care in 2024 allegedly because they would not recognize the biological female as a boy, the couple told Fox’s Lighthouse Faith podcast. Staff at Sophie’s high school in the town of Northborough exposed their daughter to “LGBTQ teachings in topics that conflict with our Catholic beliefs” and eventually counseled her on her own gender transition,...

A once beautiful, large campaign sign advocating support for Donald J. Trump is obliterated in central, Massachusetts.

NORTHBOROUGH — A Northborough man and two gun rights groups have sued the town police chief and the head of the state Firearms Records Bureau in federal court, claiming a state law that bars legal immigrants from owning handguns is unconstitutional. The suit, filed in U.S. District Court on Friday, says Eoin Pryal was denied an application for a license to carry a handgun by Northborough police because he is not a U.S. citizen, but a permanent resident alien from the United Kingdom. State law says permanent residents may possess non-large capacity rifles and shotguns, but not handguns and some...