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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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Genovese crime family boss Eugene "Rooster" Onofrio told an undercover federal agent he preferred not to leave New York City to ask mobsters in Springfield, Massachusetts for loan-shark cash to cover the gambling debts of people who owed him money. "I don't want to deal
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A Republican challenger is calling on U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren to return campaign donations raised for her by Eric Schneiderman, the New York attorney general who is resigning after a report that he physically abused four romantic partners. John Kingston, one of three candidates seeking the Republican nomination to
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Closed restaurants we wish were still around is the theme of a long photo feature provided by MassLive.com. Beloved Boston-area eateries are featured, such as The European on Hanover Street in the North End, the Hilltop Steak House on Route 1 in Saugus (and off Route 3 in Braintree)
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An environmentalist is asking a federal judge to issue an order prohibiting vertical lobster trap lines while right whales are off the coast of Massachusetts. Right whales, considered endangered, sometimes wrap themselves around the lines, which run from the trap on the bottom to a buoy floating on the surface.
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Legal observers say the Connecticut Supreme Court not only overturned Michael Skakel's conviction Friday but also dealt body blows to the prosecution's case. Skakel, now 57, was convicted in 2002 of killing neighbor Martha Moxley with a six-iron in Greenwich, Connecticut when both 15 years old.
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Arrests made at a border checkpoint in Woodstock, New Hampshire set up by Border and Customs Enforcement agents that local cops used to find small amounts of marijuana violated the New Hampshire Constitution and the federal constitution, a judge ruled. The state judge found that New Hampshire case law prohibits
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David Quinn of Temple, New Hampshire was killed in action during a battle on an island in the Pacific in 1943. He was buried there, but his family was told he was lost at sea. An inquisitive nephew he never met followed a lead from a letter written by one
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Students in a biology class in Tyngsboro were talking about their fears about blood when three of them fainted, police and firefighters said. Greater Lowell Technical High School was evacuated Friday after the incident and two of the students were taken to a hospital, but authorities determined the students had