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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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Lucio Perez of Guatamela has been living inside First Congregational Church in Amherst, Massachusetts for seven months, but he had to go to a hospital in nearby Northampton for an emergency removal of his appendix. Since he is a deportable illegal alien, supporters were worried immigration authorities might snatch him
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Dexter-Russell Inc. has its roots in a knife-making business Henry Harrington started in a shed behind his home in Southbridge, Masssachusetts in 1818. The company has gone through acquisitions, mergers, and name changes, but it is still making knives in Southbridge, where it employs more than 200 people, according to
Commentary
On Friday, May 25, voters in the Republic of Ireland approved repealing the pro-life Eighth Amendment of the country's constitution by a 66 to 34 percent margin. The country once thought to be the most pro-life in Europe is now solidly in favor of legal abortion. Here are
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A New Hampshire judge set aside state guidelines to allow lawyers who represented two girls who suffered horrific sex abuse while under the care of the state's social-services agency to get 40 percent of the settlement instead of the recommended 25 percent. The judge found that the lawyers
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A western Massachusetts judge who admitted having an affair with a drug-court-affiliated social worker that included sexual encounters in the courthouse has resigned. Thomas Estes was suspended indefinitely by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court on Thursday, and there were calls in the Massachusetts Legislature to remove him from the bench.
News
The naked Harvard College student thought to be under the influence of hallucinogens whom Cambridge police arrested on a median in mid-April won't be prosecuted, and a former state supreme court justice will investigate the cops who arrested him. Selorm Ohene, 21, was facing multiple charges after taking
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The Boston Globe has been getting rid of executives in recent months, with top management saying the broadsheet was top-heavy. But The Boston Business Journal reports that several executives who have left recently or seem about to leave are doing so not according to the Globe's plan.
News
The most revealing thing about Boston Globe editor Brian McGrory's memo last night to staffers isn't that he and accuser Hilary Sargent used to date. It isn't even that he can't remember sending her a suggestive text message. (Which he doesn'