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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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A biological male who identifies as a female ran the fastest time in the 55-meter dash among competitors defined as girls in Connecticut – but the transgender track athlete would have finished 120th among boys, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation, which compared results among boys and girls. The fastest
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Five of the 11 members of Congress from Massachusetts have endorsed U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Cambridge) for president – meaning most of the state's delegation have not. MassLive published a tally on Wednesday, February 27, based on public statements and responses to inquiries.
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A Maine legislative committee has postponed for a year a bill that would require lures to be biodegradable. The proposal would ban rubber lures, a common item in fishing.
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John Henry is playing hardball with The Boston Globe's major union, offering a small wage increase and 401(k) retirement fund match if the union will give up seniority, grievances, overtime pay, and step increases in salary, union members say. Henry at least theoretically took the 2 percent
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Herring fishermen in Maine are taking a huge hit, because the federal government has cut the amount of bait fish that can be taken from the Gulf of Maine by 58 percent. Herring is used as bait fish for lobster traps.
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Horror writer Stephen King and his wife Tabitha are donating $1.25 million to the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The society, which was founded in 1845, is the nation's oldest and largest organization dedicated to family trees. It is headquartered on Newbury Street in the Back Bay.
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A Maine man who federal authorities say made hundreds of threatening calls to Sweden's embassy to the United States in Washington D.C., during which he threatened to knife the king of Sweden, has been sentenced to two years three months in federal prison. Eric Malmstrom, 40, of
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Fall River Catholics hoping to save one of the prettiest churches in New England are in talks with the local bishop to try to take over St. Anne's Shrine. The spectacular double-spired granite church – "Visitors to the church are often stunned by its grandeur," says the