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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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Pro-life protesters confronted Steve Marchand, a Democratic candidate for governor of New Hampshire, over his call for a state statute guaranteeing legal abortion and for using state Medicaid funds to pay for abortions for poor women. Marchand, a former mayor of Portsmouth, came to Keene in the southwestern corner of
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A 20-year-old man is in custody on charges of shooting and killing a 42-year-old Weymouth police officer and a woman in a nearby home hit by a stray bullet, police said. Officer Michael Chesna leaves behind a wife and two daughters, ages 9 and 4.
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Three men who police say filmed a goat getting marijuana smoke blown into his face are facing charges of animal cruelty. The men, ages 20, 18, and 21, posted a video online showing them leading the goat from a pen into a house in Taunton. Inside, one of them sat
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McDonald's franchisess are implementing automated kiosks to take orders instead of human beings, reports NewHampshire.com. The kiosks are replacing employees. All McDonald's franchises in the country are supposed to have them by 2019.
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Challenger Matt Brown, a former secretary of state in Rhode Island, is claiming that Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo isn't pro-abortion enough because her administration has allowed six health plans in the state's Obamacare exchange that cover abortion only in the cases of rape, incest, and
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A man from Maine and a man from New Hampshire, both 25, are planning to drive a three-wheel Reliant from England to Siberia in a three-wheel car with a tiny engine. The men are taking place in the Mongol Rally, a wacky expedition sponsored by a group in England called
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A New Hampshire woman who was a victim of identity fraud and theft by a foreign scammer in March decided to pull her own scam, police said. The 51-year-old resident of Rochester, New Hampshire had her business account hacked and a laptop computer purchased and sent out of the country
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At least 10 more Massachusetts state troopers will be indicted for getting overtime pay for phantom shifts, reports MassLive.com, citing an anonymous source. Four state troopers have already been charged with federal crimes in the scandal.