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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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Karen's 15-year-old daughter was always the quietest of her children. When she was younger she showed signs of selective mutism, an anxiety disorder that causes trouble speaking in settings that aren't comfortable. Karen attributes the condition to physical and mental abuse that she says her daughter
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Comedian Jimmy Tingle, who grew up in Cambridge, is one of two candidates running for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts. His sense of humor and personality may end up overshadowing either of the two Democratic candidates for governor, Jay Gonzalez and Bob Massie, whom Lowell Sun columnist
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Recent obituaries are becoming increasingly candid about how a loved on died, even if it was by suicide or drug use or connected to mental illness. A story in Seven Days details one Burlington, Vermont man's decision to disclose in the obit that his 57-year-old wife killed herself
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A federal lawsuit by a pro-Trump politico claims that 33 state Democratic Party committees illegally laundered donations totaling $84 million that ultimately ended up in accounts that directly benefited Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for president. Donations that on paper were supposed to benefit state Democratic committees actually ended
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In January the Pittsfield School Committee voted to rename the holiday celebrated on the second Monday of October "Indigenous Peoples Day" instead of Columbus Day. But the chairman said the committee will reconsider the vote after about 30 Italian-Americans showed up to argue against the decision at a
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A woman about to walk her dog in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Boston changed her plans when she saw the severed head of a goat on her car, police said. A picture of the woman was underneath the goat head. The woman got into her car and drive it
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As a kid Tim Stone fell in love with his grandfather's dairy farm in Marion on the South Coast of Massachusetts, so in the late 1980s he decided to try to make a go of it. But when the price of milk kept falling, he had to get
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Starting July 1, convicts in Connecticut who identify with a gender other than their biological sex will be able to pick whether they go to a prison for men or a prison for women. The new state law is the first in the country.