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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 32-year-old mother left her 5-year-old and 2-year-old children in an unlocked car in the parking lot of a Market Basket for about 20 minutes while she shopped, police said. Police in Plaistow, New Hampshire arrested the woman and charged her with endangering the welfare of a child, according to
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A state commission in New Hampshire that has regulatory jurisdiction over the tallest mountain in New England is asking the state Attorney General to decide which entities own which portions of the summit. The Cog Railway could be in trouble because since the summer of 2017 it hasn't
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Yarmouth Patrolman Sean Gannon was shot and killed at a home in Marstons Mills while attempting to serve a warrant, police said. Gannon, 32, was the Cape Cod town's K9 officer. He had served in Yarmouth for about nine years, according to The Cape Cod Times.
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The Boston Public Improvement Commission was scheduled to decide Thursday, April 12 whether to change the name of Yawkey Way near Fenway Park back to its former name, but the commission decided to postpone the vote. The new vote is scheduled for Thursday, April 26.
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The Maine House of Representatives has approved a bill that would legalize recreational marijuana. The 112-34 margin suggests the bill could survive a veto from Governor Paul LePage, a Republican, who opposes legal marijuana.
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City officials in Manchester, New Hampshire took a year and nine months to announce that a 14-year-old girl was raped at one of its high schools. A 17-year-old boy was convicted on June 22, 2017 of raping the girl on September 30, 2015 in an out-of-sight alcove in an out-of-the-way
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A five-bedroom house overlooking two bays in Gloucester, Massachusetts that last sold for $4.65 million was destroyed by a fire this past weekend. The 4,921-square-foot house, which had four and a half bathrooms and 4,921 square feet of living area on a 7.9-acre lot, is owned
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Roger Leger, 73, visits dying patients in the hospice unit of Veterans Affairs hospital in Bedford, Massachusetts while hooked up to an oxygen tank himself. Leger, of Salem, had recently read five chapters of a book about former Boston Red Sox outfielder Dom DiMaggio when a patient unable to speak