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Eastern equine encephalitis is back in Rhode Island this year. The state tested mosquitos in Chapman swamp in Westerly in late August and found some of them tested positive for the virus, as CBS Boston reported earlier this week.
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Former U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat who lost his Texas U.S. Senate race against Republican Ted Cruz in 2018 and his 2020 presidential bid, threw his hat behind U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III the weekend before the September 1 primary.
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The Boston Red Sox recently signed a local player as an undrafted free agent. The team signed Attleboro native and UMass Dartmouth alum Nate Tellier to a three-year minor league contract, as Dartmouth Week reports. Tellier stood out in the New England Collegiate Baseball League last summer when he pitched
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President Donald Trump had a twofer in a recent tweet, taking a shot at U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III. The president tweeted in response to an image of Pelosi being in a hair salon without a mask in San Francisco despite
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Rayla Campbell has a chance to do something virtually unprecedented in Massachusetts politics. She will likely find out if she was successful on either Thursday or Friday this week.
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A seat in the Massachusetts House of Representatives flipped red yesterday — and not in the Republican sense of the word. Democratic socialist Erika Uyterhoeven of Somerville, founder of Act On Mass, in the 27th Middlesex District (which consists of parts of Somerville) won her primary battle against Somerville resident Catia
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Some are under the impression that the votes are not done being counted in the Democratic primary for a U.S. House seat in Massachusetts's Fourth Congressional District, but it appears as though some already know who won. Many observers believe that Newton city councilor Jake Auchincloss won
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Jordan Meehan ran a competitive race, but it wasn't enough to take down an incumbent. The self-identified democratic socialist and the current policy coordinator of the Massachusetts Commission on LGBTQ Youth (a state agency) unsuccessfully squared off against incumbent state Representative Kevin Honan (D-Brighton) in the 17th Suffolk
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