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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 Massachusetts State Retirement Board has yet to rule on applications for pensions from 12 Massachusetts state troopers accused of getting paid for shifts they didn't work. Six of the troopers retired rather than appear at a duty status hearing that could have resulted in discipline.
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A retired Worcester cop shot and wounded a 29-year-old man he found in his yard in the middle of the night, police said. The 56-year-old man came upon the intruder between midnight and 1 a.m. Sunday. When he tried to escort him off the property, a fight ensued, and
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David Quinn, 24, a first sergeant in the United States Marine Corps, was killed on an island in the Pacific in 1943 during a bloody battle with the Japanese. His family was told his body was lost at sea, but many years later his nephew came across a letter to
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The outgoing president of Harvard University has formed a committee of four professors and three administrators to study the events that led to the forcible arrest of a naked Harvard College undergraduate under the influence of drugs in the median of Massachusetts Avenue. "This work must start with a
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"They are good numbers and certainly not numbers rumored to be expected," said Eileen Donoghue, Lowell's new city manager, who until April 16 served as a state senator from Lowell. Donoghue, who is also a former mayor of Lowell, was referring to rumors that the planned
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Worcester Regional Airport, a hard-to-get-to hub with almost no spokes, has only a handful of commercial flight destinations. JetBlue flies from Worcester to Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, and plans to add JFK in New York City later this week, according to the Worcester Telegram & Gazette. (A local airline, Rectrix,
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The proposed amendment to the New Hampshire Constitution, known as Marsy's Law, would provide privacy for victims of crimes and aims to improve their treatment by the criminal justice system. Opponents are worried the proposal would have bad unintended consequences, including impinging on the right to a fair
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A nationally prominent spokesman on veterans matters has been uninvited as a speaker at his alma mater because of his conservative social commentary. Kyle Reyes, who frequently appears on television, radio, and in his own web videos, was invited earlier this year by a local veterans group to serve as