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$5 Million for New Cannabis Control Commission
The Massachusetts Legislature appropriated $2.7 million this past week for the new commission, which is supposed to oversee the new marijuana…
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Matt McDonald
Mashpee
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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Transgender Inmate Suing Western Massachusetts Sheriff for $100,000
The inmate, a biological male who now identifies as a female, says prison staff at the Hampden County jail failed to provide…
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Enormous Mass of Warm Rock Rising Beneath Western Massachusetts
Geologists liken it to a hot air balloon deep beneath the earth's surface in western Massachusetts, central Vermont, and western…
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Convicted Drug Trafficker Allowed To Stay Home To Tend To Ailing Child
The child has a life-threatening illness, so a federal judge is allowing a 38-year-old resident of Manchester, New Hampshire…
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Father of Teen-Ager Who Fell Into A Sewer Drain Suing City
A 16-year-old boy was walking home in Nashua, New Hampshire during a heavy rainstorm when he well into a sewer…
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Fourteen Connecticut Police Departments To Get Body Cameras After Police Shooting of 15-Year-Old
Police in Bridgeport, Connecticut say the 15-year-old boy threatened cops with a car so they shot him. Activists don'…
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Dude! Best Substitute Teacher E-ver
A 20-year-old former middle school substitute teacher in Somersworth, New Hampshire has been arrested on charges of inviting several of…
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Atheist Flag Not Going Up Until January in New Hampshire City
A flag representing atheists was scheduled to go up Monday afternoon on a flagpole in Somersworth, New Hampshire over a Ten Commandments…
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Sex-Abuse Victims Group Apologizes To Two Roman Catholic Priests
A Roman Catholic priest who was assigned to the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis in Missouri sued for defamation after he was…
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Westfield State To Add 400 Cameras To Combat ‘Hate Crimes’
Westfield State University's trustees unanimously approved installing more than 400 security cameras, at an undisclosed cost, in response to reports…
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Boston City Council Bans Single-Use Plastic Bags; Mayor Now Has Decision
The Boston City Council voted unanimously on Wednesday to ban single-use plastic bags used at supermarkets and pharmacies. Boston Mayor Marty…
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Atheist Flag To Fly Above Ten Commandments Monument
The city of Somersworth in southeastern New Hampshire has a Ten Commandments monument outside city hall that was donated in 1958. The…
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Michael Graham Blasts ‘Absolutely Outrageous’ Facebook Behavior, Cites New Boston Post Story
Michael Graham interviewed the proprietor of Turtleboy Sports, a right-of-center web site in Worcester, Massachusetts, on his podcast and wrote…
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City Pays $275,000 To Man Arrested for Videotaping Cops
The man surreptitiously used his cell phone to videotape a police raid on his home two years ago in Manchester, New Hampshire,…
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Commercial Robberies Up Sharply, Linked To Opioid Crisis
Cambridge has seen an increase of 75 percent in bank robberies and convenience store holdups in 2017 over last year, which police…
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75th Anniversary of Cocoanut Grove Fire
The fire at the nightclub in the Bay Village neighborhood of Boston killed 492 people on November 28, 1942. The story linked…
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Islamic Food Market Owner Expected To Plead Guilty To Defrauding Federal Government By Diverting Welfare Money
Prosecutors say the Iraq native, who is a U.S. citizen, diverted $3.5 million in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program funds he…
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Dartmouth Professor Produces ‘Family Tree’ of Constitutions
Sure, the U.S. Constitution has been influential, but so have the constitutions of Thailand and Paraguay. The big-data analysis shows…
