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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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Federal immigration authorities arrested a 23-year-old Brazilian man wanted in his native country for failing to complete a 19-year prison sentence for armed robbery there, the agency said. The man, whom authorities did not name, had fraudulent identification documents when he was arrested Thursday, March 14 near his home in
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Some Somerville residents and city officials want utility companies to stop replacing natural gas pipes and repair them instead, in hopes of eventually getting rid of them altogether. The Somerville Public Utilities and Public Works Committee, a subcommittee of the Somerville City Council, heard a presentation this week from an
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State financial aid forms in English and Spanish are now available to students in the country illegally who attending or planning to attend public or private colleges in Massachusetts. "We are taking quite a bit of care to make certain that if a student starts an application and does
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is adding a new "Office of Energy Transformation" to try to de-carbonize "community-by-community," her administration said. The new office "will provide leadership in strategic planning, roadmap development, and stakeholder engagement to advance the transformation of the state's energy delivery
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A 38-year-old New Hampshire man charged with killing his pregnant live-in girlfriend has been indicted on two second-degree murder charges – the woman and the unborn baby. A Carroll County grand jury indicted the man, William Kelly, of Ossipee, New Hampshire.
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A nursing home resident who turned 109 this past week has some advice for the youngsters: "If you're lucky enough to meet the right guy, marry him. Don't just live with him." Josephine Tansey, a widow who was married for more than 50 years,
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"I am looked down upon by many" So says St. Patrick early in his autobiographical and spiritual testament Confessio.
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A requirement for sexual assault and molestation insurance has more than doubled the cost of hiring buses to take Saugus High School students to and from the senior prom later this spring, the class president said. The initial price quote from the first bus company the seniors tried came in