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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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Four male write-in candidates who emerged after state Senator Stanley Rosenberg resigned last month are being called sexist for running against a woman who is the only candidate appearing on the Democratic primary ballot. Rosenberg resigned May 4, after the deadline for getting on the ballot had passed. But five
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A state trooper helped a mother duck and ducklings get across an interchange of the Massachusetts Turnpike in Dudley, as a video on the homepage of MassLive.com shows.
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Terry Miller, a biological male who is a sophomore at a high school in Hartford, ran boys track this past winter. But he identifies as a female, and this spring he ran girls track, setting Connecticut records in the 100-meter dash and 200-meter dash.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu signed a bill outlawing discrimination in housing, employment, or public accommodations because of gender identity. "Discrimination — in any form — is unacceptable and runs contrary to New Hampshire's Live Free or Die spirit," said Sununu, a Republican, according to The Union Leader.
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The president of the union that represents state-owned liquor stores in New Hampshire has helped expose bulk sales to out-of-state purchasers trying to avoid high excise taxes in their own state, and some rank-and-file members think that's a bad idea. One liquor store manager is circulating a petition
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First Unitarian Church in Providence is planning to offer a twin bed, a mini-refrigerator, a microwave, and an as-yet-uncompleted shower to an illegal immigrant to be named later. The church is the first in Rhode Island to join the Sanctuary Movement, an agreement by churches to offer safe haven to
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The fountain in DePasquale Square on Federal Hill in Providence broke over the winter and no one has fixed it, leading city officials to plant flowers there to make up for the lack of flowing water. But local residents and business owners are having none of it.
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A wildly driven car that entered a Babe Ruth field in Sanford, Maine during a baseball game struck and killed a 68-year-old man who had pushed children out of the way. "He took the hit for the kids," a witness told NewsCenterMaine.com.