By HOWIE CARR Hey, Deval, don't even think about handing Judge Easy Ernie Murphy a big fat kiss in the mail with one of those "involuntary disability" pensions. You turned him down a year ago when he started begging.

By CASEY ROSS Bay State Republicans supporting Rudy Giuliani for president launched a broadside attack on Mitt Romney's past tax increases yesterday on the steps of the State House. "It reminds me of the man in the glass house," former Gov.

By Matt Murphy, The Sun, Lowell, Mass. Nov. 29--BOSTON -- As if it wasn't hard enough for Republicans in Massachusetts, former Gov. Mitt Romney took a lashing from prominent members of his own party yesterday who are backing his presidential rival Rudy Giuliani. Former Gov.

By JESSE NOYES When Deval Patrick, fresh from his gubernatorial victory, decided to lecture the media for its "cynicism" a little over a month ago, some members of the media shook their heads, others just shrugged their shoulders.

TORONTO - Prime Minister Paul Martin said Thursday that Canada would not join the contentious U.S. missile defense program, a decision that will further strain brittle relations between the neighbors but please Canadians who fear it could lead to an international arms race.