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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 lawyer for the estate of a man who fled a police stop on Cape Cod and crashed into another car, killing the driver, is arguing that the other driver was mostly responsible for the crash. The widow of Kevin Quinn, 32, of Mashpee, who was driving home from a
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The symbolic date when Massachusetts residents are said to start working for themselves instead of merely paying their tax burden to government is coming up next week, according to an organization that tracks taxes. Massachusetts is tied for 43rd in the nation this year for earliest Tax Freedom Day, which
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Former Boston Globe freelance writer Luke O'Neil says he never had any inkling to urinate on a dinner entree he served as a waiter 10 years ago to neoconservative William Kristol — as opposed to the earthy term he used while suggesting just that in the lede of a
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An op-ed column published Wednesday by The Boston Globe stated that the author regretted not "pissing" in prominent neoconservative Bill Kristol's food several years ago before the newspaper changed the word to "defiling" before the newspaper changed it to "telling [him] … what I
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Dozens of protesters from opioid-death grief groups showed up outside a Harvard art museum calling for the university to remove the name of a drug manufacturer who donated most of the money to build it. Arthur M. Sackler (1913-1987), a psychiatrist, made a fortune directly marketing drugs such as Valium
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A man who crashed his sport utility vehicle into a back yard while not wearing any clothes was arrested after the homeowners found him in their house – and then mugged for his mug shot. The driver, 35, of Watertown, Connecticut, offered a winning smile with his head cocked slightly to
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Vermont Lieutenant Governor David Zuckerman is planning to celebrate a date widely associated with marijuana a day early by holding a "Coffee With Constituents" event celebrating "cannabis art." Zuckerman, 47, who grew up in Brookline, Massachusetts, is the only Progressive Party member serving in statewide office
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A 90-year-old Maine native who won a $278 million Powerball lottery in 2013 is suing her son for mismanaging her money. Gloria C. Mackenzie, who now lives in Florida but used to live in East Millinocket, Maine, says she has lost more than $10 million while her son (who is