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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 suspended payroll chief of the Massachusetts State Police applied for state pension benefits four days before an application for a criminal complaint for larceny was filed against her. Denise Ezekiel, 49, of Holbrook, was suspended November 1, 2017, the same day a State Police major was assigned to investigate
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A pro-marijuana, pro-gun Republican candidate for state Senate in New Hampshire is advocating that the state leave the union. New Hampshire was the ninth state to ratify the U.S. Constitution, in 1788. But Carol Gericke, who is running for a New Hampshire Senate seat that includes Manchester, wants the
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A Colorado woman given an apple by a Delta Airlines flight attendant during a flight from Paris on Wednesday thought she'd wait until the second leg of the trip to Denver before she ate it. But she never got the chance.
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Calling Donald Trump supporters "deplorable" always worked in the Hamptons, on Martha's Vineyard, in Beverly Hills, and in Silicon Valley. So Hillary Clinton was shocked when it blew up in her face a couple of months before the 2016 election.
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The student newspaper at Harvard College has condemned Cambridge police officers for their actions arresting a Harvard undergraduate last week. A video taken by a bystander shows police officers interacting with the 21-year-old student, who was standing naked in the median of Massachusetts Avenue and reportedly had thrown his clothes
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Legislative hearings or changes in policy could be in order to try to deal with the various Massachusetts State Police scandals, the president of the Massachusetts Senate said. Senate President Harriette Chandler (D-Worcester) acknowledged the continuing scandals among the State Police that started in the fall of 2017.
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A pediatrician who claimed that males and females are intrinsically different and that transgenderism is growing because of marketing to teen-agers drew more than 40 protesters during a talk at a Catholic church in Providence, Rhode Island. Dr. Michelle Cretella spoke at St. Pius V Church, which is across the
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Gil Santos died Thursday, which was his 80th birthday and 53rd wedding anniversary. Santos called New England Patriots games on the radio from 1966 to 1980 and 1991 to January 2013. His career spanned from the lean days of the multiple losing seasons in a row to the years of