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Jeffrey Lord: Is There A Connection Between Mass Shootings and Mass Abortions?
The former CNN commentator notes that the number of mass shootings has increased sharply since Roe vs. Wade in 1973, and he…
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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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Ben Stein on How the 2016 Election Ended A 40-Year Friendship
The couple were his very best friends and had been since 1975, says the writer, actor, and former Nixon aide. But saying…
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Slapdown: Nevada Republican Senate Candidate Swats Away Chris Hayes on MSNBC
MSNBC host Chris Hayes wanted to make the Las Vegas shooting about gun control during a live interview, but Nevada Republican Danny…
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Fired CBS Lawyer Says She’s Sorry for Saying She Doesn’t Feel Sorry for Las Vegas Victims
"I am deeply sorry for diminishing the significance of every life affected by Stephen Paddock's terrorism last night and…
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New Maine State Pumpkin Record
At 1,756 pounds, the giant pumpkin beat the old record in Maine by almost 30 pounds.…
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T.F. Green To Become ‘Official’ Airport of Patriots
The New England Patriots won't have to pay $1 million a year to park two Boeing 767 jets, while T.…
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Man Arrested for Shooting Skunks in His Yard
The 61-year-old resident of Milford, Connecticut told police he shot the skunks because there are so many of them near…
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Springfield Judge Lowers the Boom on Drug Dealer
A defense lawyer said the mandatory minimum sentence would be cruel and unusual punishment, but the judge gave the convicted drug dealer…
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Tewksbury ‘Awesome Mother’ Who Died in Las Vegas Mass Shooting ‘Never Complained’
The 42-year-old from Tewksbury, Massachusetts was married and the mother of a 6-year-old daughter. The little girl got…
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Business Advocates Sue To Stop ‘Millionaires Tax’ Ballot Question
The lawsuit asks the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court to find that a proposal to tack an income tax surtax on people making…
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Say Goodnight To Confederate Prisoners’ Memorial on Georges Island
State officials say they're going to remove the lone Confederate memorial in Massachusetts after Columbus Day weekend and put it…
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‘Country Girl’ Las Vegas Victim From Central Vermont Was ‘Absolute Joy’
The woman in her early 30s originally from Dorset, Vermont graduated from the College of St. Joseph in Rutland in 2004. She…
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Christian School Kicks Out Transgender Student
The Christian school in Somersworth, New Hampshire told a rising senior born as a biological female that the student would no longer…
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‘Redneck Muslim’ Opening Mosque in Keene, New Hampshire
The Tennessee native converted to Islam 10 years ago and is now turning a house in the southwestern New Hampshire college town…
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John Adams’s Hometown Braintree To Mark Treaty of Paris Anniversary Ending Revolutionary War
John Adams helped negotiate the treaty that ended the Revolutionary War. He was born in what is now Quincy but at the…
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Another U.S. Border Patrol Checkpoint in Northern New Hampshire
For the second time this year, the U.S. Border Patrol set up a checkpoint on Route I-93 southbound in northern…
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Fisherman Bitten By Shark, Goes To Hospital
The the 34-year-old fisherman caught a 4-foot-long shark, probably a sand shark, a Menauhant Beach in East Falmouth…
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Someone Smears Veterans Memorials in Springfield With Crabapples; Who’s To Blame According To State Rep?
If you guessed President Donald Trump, you're right. At least three veterans memorials in Springfield, Massachusetts were smeared with crabapples,…
