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Sagamore Bridge Back To Four Lanes
The traffic nightmare on the approaches to the Sagamore Bridge is over — at least for a while — now that all four lanes…
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Boy Scouts To Drop Key Word From Name
The organization currently known as Boy Scouts of America plans to drop the word "Boy" from its name, as it…
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Harvard Recognizes New Graduate Students Union
Harvard University will bargain with a newly formed union representing graduate students, the school's president said. Drew Gilpin Faust, president…
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Old Man of the Mountain, 15 Years After He’s Gone
On May 3, 2003, after a stormy night, someone looked up at the Old Man of the Mountain in Franconia Notch in…
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Pensions for Twelve Retired State Troopers Accused of Getting Paid for Phantom Shifts?
The Massachusetts State Retirement Board has yet to rule on applications for pensions from 12 Massachusetts state troopers accused of getting paid…
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Retired Cop Shoots Trespasser Wanted on Burglary Charge
A retired Worcester cop shot and wounded a 29-year-old man he found in his yard in the middle of the…
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Body of U.S. Marine Killed During World War II Coming Home
David Quinn, 24, a first sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, was killed on an island in the Pacific in 1943…
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Harvard President Forms Committee To Study Arrest of Naked Student on Drugs
The outgoing president of Harvard University has formed a committee of four professors and three administrators to study the events that led…
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High School Project in Lowell Pegged At $345 Million
"They are good numbers and certainly not numbers rumored to be expected," said Eileen Donoghue, Lowell's new city…
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Massport Losing $8 Million A Year on Worcester Airport
Worcester Regional Airport, a hard-to-get-to hub with almost no spokes, has only a handful of commercial flight destinations. JetBlue…
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Victim’s Rights Constitutional Amendment Shot Down By New Hampshire House
The proposed amendment to the New Hampshire Constitution, known as Marsy's Law, would provide privacy for victims of crimes and…
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High School Pulls Plug on Veterans Event Speaker Because of Conservative Views
A nationally prominent spokesman on veterans matters has been uninvited as a speaker at his alma mater because of his conservative social…
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Mount Ida Seniors To College Brass: Why Don’t You Just Skip Our Graduation?
Mount Ida College seniors upset that the trustees have decided to close the school have asked the president and trustees not to…
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Harvard Graduate Students Unionizing Vote: ‘Very Liberal’ Beat ‘Liberal’
Graduate students at Harvard University are generally left of center, but how far left of center helped determine the outcome of the…
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Longtime WBZ Radio Reporter Lana Jones Dies
WBZ radio reporter Lana Jones died Wednesday morning, according to the station. She was 62. Jones was a familiar and distinctive voice…
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Supporters of Historic Church Building Trying Last-Second Save from Demolition
Notre Dame des Canadiens Church in Worcester has a distinctive design, with steep Romanesque arches and spires. But a developer plans to…
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Father of Aborted Baby Gets Probation for Leaving Bullet at Abortion Clinic
A 21-year-old New Hampshire man who left a bullet at an abortion clinic where his girlfriend had just aborted their…
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Harvard Law School Replaces Slave-Owning Family Crest With … Nothing
Two years after Harvard Law School dumped the crest of a prominent New England family from its seal because the family owned…
