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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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U.S. Representative Seth Moulton (D-Salem) isn't worried about his presidential campaign even though he didn't make either of two debate stages for Democrats last week. Moulton told The Salem News that he made a slow, steady climb when he took on then-incumbent John Tierney in
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A 35-year-old man wanted on domestic violence charges and high on drugs refused to come out of his hotel room in Manchester, New Hampshire, police there said. Instead, police said in a written statement, the Nashua resident was "throwing things, yelling, and acting aggressive."
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Scientific researchers are celebrating the surging populations of gray seals and the great white sharks who try to eat them off Cape Cod, even as beachgoers are worried about becoming the next shark-attack victim. Five shark attacks have occurred since 2012, including a man in Truro who was seriously injured
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Caroline Kennedy has put her late mother's former estate on Martha's Vineyard on the market for $65 million. The 340-acre estate is on the Atlantic Ocean side of the island, in the town of Aquinnah (formerly known as Gay Head).
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Left-of-center Massachusetts Democrats are hailing a federal Supreme Court ruling that appears to make it harder for the Trump administration to include a question about U.S. citizenship on the forthcoming U.S. census questionnaire. Chief Justice John Roberts joined the four liberals on the court on Thursday, June 27
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School officials who can no longer rely on the pungent smell of marijuana to alert them to drug use in schools are now using test strips to determine if cookies, candy, and vaping devices are laced with it. The test strips turn red if they detect the presence of tetrahydrocannabinol,
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Fear of sharks has led Cape Cod National Seashore officials to curtail a lifeguard training program for about 16 teen-agers ages 13 to 17 off Outer Cape beaches this summer. Federal officials also cited what they described as inadequate staffing as a reason not to offer the program, according to
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Nearly 15 million Americans say they have driven an automobile within an hour of using marijuana, and nearly 70 percent of Americans thinks it's highly unlikely a stoned driver will get caught, according to a poll from the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Millennials are the most likely