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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 Archdiocese of Boston has removed from ministry a priest from Nigeria because of allegations that he sexually abused a child in 2007. Father Christian Ohazulume had been living since 2010 at St. Mary of the Assumption Parish in Brookline, where he assisted in celebrating Mass and hearing confessions while
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Vermont is planning to move 200 prisoners now incarcerated at a privately operated prison in Pennsylvania to a privately operated prison in Mississippi. State officials have been unhappy with the Pennsylvania prison, where four Vermont inmates have died, according to VTDigger.com.
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Former New Hampshire governor and former White House chief of staff John Sununu called former President Barack Obama a "damn fool" for returning to the campaign trail to attack a sitting president. Sununu, appearing on Fox News Channel, pointed out that tradition in America calls for a former
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The famous scene of White House chief of staff Andy Card whispering into President George W. Bush's ear was carefully if quickly choreographed, Card told Massachusetts legislators Tuesday. Card, a former Republican state representative from Holbrook, gave the keynote address to the Massachusetts Legislature marking the 17th anniversary
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A political committee supporting the state's so-called Bathroom Bill in Massachusetts raised 17 times more money during the first eight months of 2018 than a committee trying to persuade voters to repeal it. The Yes on 3 committee also has 35 times more cash on hand about two
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The Mashpee Wampanoags may never build a casino in Taunton now that the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs has ruled that the tribe was not "now under federal jurisdiction" in 1934 when Congress passed a key federal statute that governs how and whether a tribe may take
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A New Hampshire school board has amended its proposed policy regarding public comments during board meetings after the American Civil Liberties Union said the policy might be too restrictive. In its initial draft of the policy to control public participation in public meetings, the Concord School Board had placed limits
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Brookstone has warned all 90 employees at its headquarters in Merrimack, New Hampshire that they might lose their jobs. In August, the maker of quirky gadgets filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and began closing its remaining 101 mall locations "following continued deterioration of traditional retail mall traffic," according