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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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A 17-year-old Zambian junior at a high school in Portland, Maine is seeking to compete in a National Endowment for the Arts poetry contest even though he hasn't yet gotten a Green Card. Allan Monga has applied for asylum, but it hasn't been granted yet.
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The director of the Massachusetts State Police's payroll put in for fraudulent reimbursements totaling more than $23,000 between July 23, 2016 and October 2017, prosecutors said. Denise Ezekiel, of Holbrook, is charged with larceny over $250.
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Cuba's new president Miguel Diaz Canel says that he will not be taking Cuba in a new direction. He promises to defend the socialist revolution. "The mandate given by the people to this house is to give continuity to the Cuban revolution in a crucial historic moment.
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A foreign student from Pakistan said he has to work 10 hours a week and sometimes more in one of Yale University's libraries just to make the payments that Yale requires of all students receiving financial aid. That has meant missing out on social activities and other amenities
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Limiting magazines to 10 rounds for rifles and 15 rounds for handguns violates the Vermont Constitution, gun-rights groups say in a new lawsuit. Vermont, long considered perhaps the most gun-friendly state in the union, has passed gun control laws in the wake of the mass-shooting in Florida on February 14
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Pay and other compensation for Mount Ida College's president and other executives increased while its increasing debt load threatened to drive it out of business. The board of trustees of the small college in Newton kept approving significant increases in salary for president Barry Brown and other leading
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Out-of-state drivers who don't live in New Hampshire or Maine don't have any consequences for not paying pay-by-mail tolls in Massachusetts for the Massachusetts Turnpike, Ted Williams Tunnel, and Tobin Bridge — which may explain why some aren't. The Massachusetts Department of Transportation reports some
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When she was first lady Barbara Bush once brought replicas of the duckling statues during a Cold War visit to Moscow. The famous statues on Boston Public Garden commemorate a famous children's book, Robert McCluskey's Make Way for Ducklings, published in 1941.