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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 city councilor-elect in Providence, Rhode Island concerned about the closing of a strip club because police say three dancers offered undercover officers sex acts for money wants the state legislature to make prostitution legal. Katherine Kerwin, who goes by Kat, whose ward-to-be includes the recently closed Foxy Lady, said
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Employees of a national airport construction company spending a week training on Cape Cod gave up their annual Christmas outing to perform landscaping and house repairs for the widow of a former colleague killed in an accident on the job 10 weeks ago. Timothy P. Sullivan, 43, of Yarmouth, died
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Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson appears to be the lone Massachusetts state official taking President Donald Trump's side in the shutdown of many federal government services in a dispute over Trump's proposed border wall. Hodgson, a Republican who often emphasizes border security and cooperation with federal
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Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch refused to sign a bill the city council passed creating a commission designed to serve the interests of homosexual, bisexual, and transgender residents, saying it's unnecessary and potentially divisive. "I am not suggesting that a community of our size would not benefit from
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Worcester parents and students clashed over a so-called comprehensive sex education curriculum for middle school students during a school committee meeting Thursday night. Designers of the curriculum, Making Proud Choices!, say it's designed to help kids avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases "by abstaining from sex or
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Two vandals destroyed 12 out of 13 inflatable Christmas displays in the front yard of a family in Natick. Police are looking for the vandals, who were caught on video Wednesday night.
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A city board in Providence, Rhode Island has revoked the licenses of The Foxy Lady, permanently closing the strip club where police say three dancers offered undercover officers sex acts for money last week. The Providence Board of Licenses voted 3-1 to revoke the license Wednesday, December 19. The club
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A strip club in Providence, Rhode Island ordered closed a week ago after three strippers were arrested on prostitution charges in the club shouldn't still be closed, a board of licenses member said. Police say the three dancers at The Foxy Lady offered undercover police officers sex acts