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Hartford Hires Bankruptcy Lawyer
Connecticut's capital city has major cash-flow problems.…
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Connecticut Hospitals Pay More in State Tax Than They Make in Profit
The 28 hospitals in Connecticut made a collective total surplus in fiscal year 2016 of $353 million, but a state tax on…
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Shots Fired Near Mayor While Visiting Homicide Victim’s Family
Joe Ganim, the mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut's biggest city, was visiting a home when someone fired shots from a moving…
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Medical Marijuana Dispensary Opens in Bridgewater
The medical marijuana dispensary opened Thursday, July 6 in Bridgewater, Massachusetts.…
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Beaches To Offer Free Skin-Cancer Screenings
Six Rhode Island beaches will offer a free 15-minute visual screening on a first-come, first-served basis. The screenings are…
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Former Red Sox, Celtic Player Gene Conley Dies at 86
He's the only person ever to play on a championship-winning team in two professional sports. But the time he…
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Which Massachusetts Zip Code Came Out Richest? (Hint: It’s Not Weston’s)
Dover's came out number one in the Boston Business Journal review of U.S. Census data. Weston's zip…
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Was Amelia Earhart Actually Taken Prisoner By the Japanese?
The famous aviator has long been believed to have crashed into the Pacific Ocean and died while on a planned around-the-…
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‘Santa Claus’ Leads Maine State Police on 47-Mile-Long Chase
The 54-year-old New Hampshire man was stopped by a Maine state trooper, told the trooper he was Santa Claus, and…
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NPR Tweets Declaration of Independence, Gets Angry Reactions
Many Twitter followers of National Public Radio thought NPR was tweeting "propaganda." Actually, it was the Declaration of Independence in…
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410 Bags of Heroin?
A 36-year-old Maine man was stopped by a Massachusetts state trooper in Charlton in central Massachusetts for driving a car…
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Ever Thought About Lip-Synching in New Hampshire?
It's illegal to lip-synch at a paid concert in New Hampshire. But there's no evidence the law…
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WMEX Off the Air … At Least For Now
The Quincy radio station that recently aired investigative reporter Michele McPhee and other conservatives went silent June 30. A new owner, if…
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A Declaration Worth Declaiming
An online poll came up on the computer screen last week with one question: Have you ever read the Declaration of Independence?…
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New York City Woman Mistakes New Hampshire Highway for Autobahn
Police using aircraft say they clocked a 56-year-old woman going 111 miles per hour in Greenland, a town in southeastern…
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Police Fed Up With Epic Partier Station Massive Vehicle Outside His House
The gargantuan surplus machine was meant to take on insurgents in Iraq. But now it's seeing duty outside the house…
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Quarry Painting Connected To Quincy Resident’s Father … 78 Years Later
The previously unknown impressionist painting shows children enjoying the water at one of the 56 quarries in Quincy, Massachusetts in 1939. One…
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No Good Deed …
A man in Florida who tried to reunite a 2-year-old girl with her parents at a playground got punched out…
