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Massachusetts education officials say the state's high school graduation rate is up to 86.1 percent, with some of the strongest gains among minority and low-income students.

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In the NBA, Toronto beat Indiana 104-91, Cleveland topped Detroit 103-95, Milwaukee bested Miami 109-102, Memphis won against Dallas 109-90, Chicago squeaked by Golden State in overtime 113-111, and it was Washington over the Lakers 98-92.

The DREAM Act, legislation that would allow the children of undocumented immigrants to legally remain in the United States and gain resident status, has been introduced into both house of congress various times in various forms since 2001. It has yet to pass, or even be voted on in the senate. President Obama has put some aspects of the act into effect with executive orders, but there are students around the country who still hope the full act will someday become law.

Today on the Best Of Our Knowledge, we'll hear from a potential "Dreamer".

The top lawyer for the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources will  become the next chair of the Natural Resources Board.

The Vermont House has endorsed a measure to ban so-called microbeads from personal-care products sold in the state.

The Vermont Attorney General's office is calling a second public hearing on the state's rules to implement the ban on genetically modified organisms.

The first legislature in the country to pass an aid-in-dying law may revisit the issue, as a key backer says changes to take effect in mid-2016 would remove too many patient protections.

Health insurer Capital District Physicians Health Plan and the area's largest cancer care provider New York Oncology Hematology announced Monday they've settled their differences and will continue working with each other.  The accord means cancer patients undergoing treatment plans are no longer caught in the middle.

A New York state assemblyman from the Hudson Valley stands ready to take action against a local gas station owner if prices at a few stations near West Point aren’t lower by next month.

Democratic Assemblyman James Skoufis has written to the head of the only two gas stations in the Town of Highlands in Orange County asking that he lower prices that tend to run about 30 to 40 cents higher than in surrounding areas.