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Former middleweight boxing champ Marvin Hagler died near his New Hampshire home on Saturday, March 13. Hagler, a Brockton native, was the undisputed middleweight boxing champion from 1980 to 1987. He was 66 years old at the time of his death. The Hagler family says that his death was the
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A bill that would prohibit towns and cities in New Hampshire from enforcing policies that discourage cooperating with federal immigration authorities has cleared a key legislative committee in the state House of Representatives. New Hampshire House Bill 266, called the Anti-Sanctuary Act, would prohibit municipal governments from prohibiting law enforcement
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A northern Maine local official has been invited to address the convention of the National Rifle Association this summer because the town council he serves on declared the town a Second Amendment sanctuary. Bob Kilcollins, who owns a gun shop in town, earlier this year presented the resolution to the
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While once parents of schoolchildren needed to be informed before books dealing with homosexual and transgender themes were introduced into a classroom, that's no longer the case, a homosexuality advocate said. Eileen Dugas, a former early education teacher and current coordinator of South Coast LGBTQ Network, recently described
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A short road running through the campus of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod has been renamed because its namesake fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War and supported slavery. Maury Lane is now officially called Marie Tharp Lane. The school has erected a temporary sign and plans
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[CORRECTION, 7 p.m. Friday, March 12, 2021: A previous version of this story included a provision that appeared in a draft version of the Cambridge ordinance on polyamory but was not included in the final version passed by the city council. The draft version required that members of a
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Planned Parenthood and their allies are once again pressuring Worcester mayor Joseph Petty and members of the school committee to implement so-called "comprehensive sexuality education" in the city's public schools. Two years ago, in February 2019, the school committee abandoned the proposal after hearing from parents
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Before he was a candidate for governor in Massachusetts, he was a state senator — and taught at a public college for two years. Benjamin Downing, a Democrat who lived in Pittsfield at the time but in East Boston now, served as a member of the Massachusetts Legislature from 2007 to
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