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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 Lowell Sun ran a headline above a wire story about President Donald Trump's primetime address to the nation that referred to the proposed $5.7 billion border fence as a "Wailing Wall." The newspaper, a daily that covers the city of Lowell, published the headline
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Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers is 0-7 lifetime against New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, with all of the previous games having taken place when the Chargers were in San Diego. (They moved to Los Angeles starting with the 2017-2018 season.) The two are expected to lead their teams in the
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A 41-year-old Vermont man who abducted a 25-year-old mother and her son in New Hampshire in order, he said, to search for his wife was later arrested in Pennsylvania. Police say the man raped the woman in a hotel in White River Junction, Vermont in front of her 5-year-old son,
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The city of Boston had racked up two-tenths of one inch of snow this winter as of earlier this week, prompting some to ask: Where's the snow?
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Taunton residents who don't want a 900-room hotel casino near their homes would be overridden if Congress passes a bill ending their legal challenge to the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. U.S. Representative William Keating (D-Bourne) and U.S. Representative Joseph P. Kennedy III (D-Brookline) earlier this week filed
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"Is she nice?" one 8-year-old girl asked when the topic of presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren came up at the Miss Worcester Diner where she and her mother were eating. Many people eating at diners in central Massachusetts seem to think not.
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A homeless woman who lives in her truck and lives off $750 a month in federal benefits says she plans to sue the city of Milford, Connecticut over a new 9 p.m. closing time at the public park where she stays, which she calls "an act of war.
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The town of Orleans on Cape Cod is considering a ban on selling and releasing helium balloons. Selectmen voted this week to set a public hearing on a bylaw proposed by the town's Conservation Commission that would set a fine at $50 per offense.