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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 judge has ordered the district attorneys of Worcester County, Plymouth County, and the Cape and Islands to turn over records concerning the cases they prosecuted to a newspaper that requested them. The Suffolk Superior Court judge rejected the district attorneys' argument that the records are protected by attorney-client
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The planning department of Laconia, New Hampshire is enforcing a city policy prohibiting short-term rentals if neighbors complain. The city council decided in October that short-term rentals in most residential areas violate local zoning rules, according to the Laconia Daily Sun.
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Climate change activists want the city of Keene, New Hampshire to use only renewable sources of electricity like wind, sun, and water instead of fossil fuels like oil, natural gas, and coal by 2030 – and only renewable sources of heat and fuel by 2050. The lone member of a city
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Kirsten Hughes is leaving as chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party after a near-wipeout election earlier this month. Recent GOP U.S. Senate candidate Geoff Diehl is considering running for the spot, as he prepares to leave the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
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Arbella Insurance Group is now offering insurance against online abuse and harassment. The company, headquartered in Quincy, is the first in Massachusetts to offer policy riders to homeowners and renters that offer insurance for harassment, virus attacks, extortion, fraud, and data breaches that occur online, according to MassLive.com.
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Hedge fund billionaire Jeffrey Epstein committed sex crimes against about 80 underage girls in Florida, but the U.S. attorney at the time engineered a plea deal allowing him to serve only 13 months in a private wing of a county jail on two prostitution counts. That U.S. attorney,
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A 39-year-old U.S. Army father of three who was a Boston native was killed in Afghanistan this week. Sergeant 1st Class Eric Michael Emond was a founder of Massachusetts Fallen Heroes.
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U.S. Representative-elect Ayanna Pressley (D-Dorchester) and Maine U.S. Representative Chellie Pingree are among 15 House Democrats supporting a so-called Green New Deal. Details are hazy – "Nobody knows" is how the environmentalist group Sierra Club describes the specifics — but an outline provided by chief instigator Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez