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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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The editor of The Boston Globe can't remember sending a text message to a former female staff member asking "What do you generally wear when you write?" but he doesn't deny it. The Boston Globe is investigating the incident, after the former staff member
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New Hampshire's Republican governor has chosen a student who organized an anti-gun walkout at her high school in March as the winner of his "Governor for a Day" contest. Molly Robert, a senior at Kennett High School in North Conway, New Hampshire, was one of 100
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A recent graduate of Providence College who made statements supporting the Christian view of marriage has lost his job at a bookstore on campus after an administrator got a no-trespass order against him following an encounter over her job performance. Michael Smalanskas, who graduated this past Sunday, was irked by
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U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren is promising not to take any campaign donations from the National Rifle Association – even though she has never been offered any. "I'm running for re-election to U.S. Senate here in Massachusetts, and I pledge not to take a single penny from
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Alexander Ciccolo, 25, of Adams, Massachusetts, agreed to a 20-year prison sentence to avoid trial and a possible life sentence on terrorism charges in U.S. District Court in Springfield. Piccolo's estranged father, a Boston police captain, tipped off authorities about his son's involvement with ISIS.
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Retired Massachusetts State Trooper Lawrence Smith says that when he showed up for work on June 4, 2014 he found that a sergeant who was supposed to be at the barracks in Newbury was actually at home. It mattered because the trooper who was covering for the sergeant not he
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The author, William Marvel, lambastes the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Illinois as "loud, cheap, and mawkish" and "a cross between a chintzy wax museum and the Hall of Horrors at the Fryeburg Fair." He also criticizes fixations over historical memorabilia and monuments
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Pauline Burke had been the secretary of Father William P. Haas for about four years when Haas announced in December 1970 that he would be resigning as president of Providence College. He later applied to the pope to laicize him so he could marry Burke, both of which happened in