Major MA Sales Tax Cut Options Revealed: Patch PM

Happy Tuesday. Here are today's top stories.

The Massachusetts sales tax could be taking a major dip from 6.25 percent. Which of these four options would you rather see?

'Ice Bucket Challenge Week' is now official and starts today. Gov. Baker signed the bill today, created in honor of Pete Frates, one of the challenge's co-founders.

President Trump's new chief of staff has deep Bay State roots, so we chased after them. "I thought, oh no, it couldn't be him."

Julian Edelman was kicked out of Patriots practice today. See what non-negotiable rule he broke. (You can also see the team's preseason schedule here.)

'A hero within his community': The friends of the Peabody firefighter killed over the weekend are banding together to honor and remember him.

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There were two fatal crashes today: A man was killed in the North Shore on I-95, and a woman died in a chain-reaction crash on Route 24.

Crime time: A man was arrested for just walking into a couple of homes in Brookline ... One Wellesley alleged drunk driver thought she was in New Hampshire, police said ... A flat tire led to the arrest of a man stealing wood, police said ... Family members were among those arrested in connection to a Lowell teen's stabbing ... An alleged Somerville drug dealer was nabbed with a loaded gun and a knife, police said ... Police are asking for help ID'ing a woman's body found in the Merrimack ... Three people allegedly robbed and beat a homeless man.