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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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During the past 12 years the Abortion Rights Fund of Western Massachusetts has "pledged nearly $640,000" to "over 2,500 people" for abortions, according to a Smith College professor. Carrie N. Baker, co-president of the organization, wrote a column about it for the Hampshire Daily
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A veteran western Massachusetts police officer has pleaded guilty to immigration fraud for falsely claiming he intended to marry the sister of his common-law wife in order to help get her into the United States from Vietnam. Nhac Duy Truong, 44, who retired Wednesday, February 20 from the Chicopee Police
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Nick Cafardo, a longtime sportswriter and regular on baseball talk shows, died Thursday, February 21. Cafardo, 62, collapsed at the Boston Red Sox spring training facility from an apparent embolism, according to MassLive.com, citing The Boston Globe.
News
Justice came slow for Everett Nelson Delano, known as Red. He was fatally shot at 9:35 a.m. Thursday, September 1, 1966 behind the desk of a gas station in Andover, New Hampshire, about 21 miles northwest of Concord, during a robbery. A friend of his who owned the
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Massachusetts ranks among the lowest five states in thefts per capita and online pornography watching, according to a survey released by WalletHub.com. The survey attempted to measure what it calls "sin" in seven categories: "anger and hatred," "jealousy," "excesses and vices,"
Commentary
Is it too early to start rehabilitating Jussie Smollett? The television actor has just been charged with faking a hate crime against himself. But his heart was in the right place: He was trying to bring down two white Donald Trump supporters, one of whom shouted "This is MAGA
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A New Hampshire legislative committee has voted to recommend a bill that would repeal the state's death penalty, but not before Republicans got some digs in against Democrats who oppose the death penalty but support legal abortion. "What bothers me is a lot of people who are
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Scientists and volunteers rescued a dolphin stranded on a Cape Cod beach and put the animal back to sea. The dolphin was found Tuesday, February 19 on Boat Meadow Beach, which is on the Cape Cod Bay side of the town of Eastham, according to MassLive.com.