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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 97-year-old widow had no idea how she was going to get the rope on her 20-foot-tall flagpole fixed so she could continue flying the American flag and a U.S. Marine Corps flag (in honor of her late husband) outside her home in Portland, Maine. So she asked her
Around New England
David Hall of Utah bought hundreds of acres in four towns in east central Vermont in hopes to building a high-tech "sustainable" community with a low carbon footprint. But residents of the towns didn't thin much of the plan, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation
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MassLive.com has identified 28 of the 40 Massachusetts state troopers under investigation for drawing pay for shifts they didn't work.
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Anthony Kennedy, 81, who has served on the U.S. Supreme Court since 1988, announced Wednesday that he retiring effective July 31. Kennedy was the swing vote on many 5-4 decisions, but he generally sided with the liberals on matters pertaining to abortion and homosexuality.
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Banning licensed mental health therapists from trying to change a minor patient's sexual orientation or gender identity violates a new U.S. Supreme Court decision in an unrelated case, opponents of the proposed ban said Wednesday. The Massachusetts House of Representatives is expected to vote on and likely
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Former Boston Red Sox designated hitter Hanley Ramirez's name came up during a traffic stop that led to the arrest of a man who police say had 400 grams of fentanyl in his car. But after investigative reporter Michele McPhee reported it, The Boston Globe debunked her report.
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The company that owns the company that owns four daily newspapers and four weekly newspapers north of Boston is looking to sell them, according to the Lawrence Eagle-Tribune, one of the newspapers involved. CNHI, headquartered in Montgomery, Alabama, currently owns North of Boston Media Group, which operates the Eagle-Tribune, the
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The pastor of an evangelical Protestant church in Laconia, New Hampshire is offering a faith-based 12-step program to overcome same-sex attraction and other "hurts, habits, and hangups," but it has struck a nerve with some pro-homosexuality advocates. New Hampshire recently enacted a law that prohibits so-called "conversion