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Matt McDonald, a Boston-area native, has decades of experience as a reporter, editor, and copy editor. His work has appeared in The Mashpee Messenger, Cape Cod News, and The Norfolk Boomerang.
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The girls softball team at King Philip Regional High School has forfeited six wins from the spring 2024 season for using without prior approval an electronic communication device between coaches and players. The National Federation of State High School Associations has not approved the walkie-talkie device coaches used to call
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About 100 middle school and high school students in Amherst walked out of school late last week to protest the U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade two years ago. "Marching to downtown and chanting, 'Hey, hey, ho, ho, abortion bans have got to go,
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A Brazilian illegal immigrant convicted of sexually assaulting three high school freshmen at a soccer camp in 2013 can't withdraw his original guilty pleas after they got him deported, the Massachusetts Appeals Court has ruled. Guilherme Pereira, now about 27, was 16 when he and two other boys
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The president of the Massachusetts Senate said she's open to putting tolls at the state's New Hampshire border and possibly elsewhere. More revenue is needed for public transportation, among other things, said state Senator Karen Spilka (D-Ashland), the president of the state Senate.
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President Joe Biden plans to visit Boston next week. Biden is scheduled to visit New Hampshire, a Democratic-leaning battleground state, on Tuesday, May 21.
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A mentally ill man in state prison who pleaded guilty to second degree murder in 2004 is entitled to have state funds pay for a social-services advocate to put together a pre-release plan for his application for parole, the state's highest court has ruled. Quasim Hastings is indigent,
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A Dorchester man hid business income from the plumbing and heating supply company in Mattapan he co-owns by using the money to buy more than $10 million worth of gold and silver bars while writing on the checks that the money was going to buy boilers, materials, and supplies, prosecutors
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Former New England Patriots tight end Jermaine Wiggins says Brockton High School refused to renew him for another year because he isn't a member of the teachers union. "There had been some complaints about me not being in the union and they chose to go in a