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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 41-year-old Maine man who was stopped by a police officer for knocking over cones in a construction zone on a public street while driving a tractor got back on the tractor and fled, police said. The driver led police on a slow-speed chase that lasted nearly three miles.
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Waltham police say they have seen a surge in opioid overdoses, including eight deaths over a three-day period. Officers have used Narcan, which can reverse the effects of an overdose, on many of the people, according to MassLive.com.
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The Wells-Ogunquit School Committee voted to ditch Warriors as the high school's mascot, leaving only one town in Maine using American Indian imagery for its school sports teams. School officials in Skowhegan, where the high school teams are known as the Indians, refused to discuss the matter with
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Twin Rivers Paper Company doesn't have to pay for medical marijuana for a former employee who was injured on the job because the federal Controlled Substances Act trumps the state's Medical Use of Marijuana Act, the Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled. Gaetan H. Bourgeon sustained a
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The city of Manchester, New Hampshire is flying the rainbow flag outside city hall for the first time, to commemorate so-called "Pride Month," which honors homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender people. A male couple who own a restaurant in Manchester were shocked not to see rainbow flags after moving
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Kevin Cullen made up a dramatic story he told an audience during a presentation about the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013, one of several problematic occurrences that led The Boston Globe to suspend the columnist without pay, the newspaper said. The Globe commissioned two reviews of Cullen's work
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A Democratic challenger for governor of Rhode Island is accusing the Democratic governor of Rhode Island of not being pro-abortion enough because she allowed multiple Obamacare exchange plans not to cover abortion except in extreme cases. The incumbent, Governor Gina Raimondo, supports legal abortion and wants the state legislature to
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The Maine Bureau of Motor Vehicles plans to allow people to pick "X" for "gender non-binary" along with male and female. The change stems from a complaint to the Maine Human Rights Commission filed last year by a South Portland resident who identifies as neither male