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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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U.S. Representative Katherine Clark (D-Revere) praised former U.S. Supreme Court justice Sandra Day O'Connor as "a true public servant and a trailblazing jurist" after O'Connor's death late last week. O'Connor was President Ronald Reagan's first nominee
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A Philippines national living in Los Angeles helped coach hundreds of sham marriages between U.S. citizens and illegal immigrants to help the illegal immigrants get legal residency in the United States, federal prosecutors said. For $20,000 to $30,000 per client, prosecutors say, the "agency" would
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Pope Francis's apparent decision to strip a conservative cardinal's Vatican salary and apartment is the final straw for the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts, which called on the pope to renounce the papacy. "The most obvious solution to this decade-long reign of scandal, heresy, division,
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A woman who had seven children with five different fathers and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of one of them can't get parental rights back to her two youngest just because she now claims they are American Indians, a Massachusetts court has ruled. Shaniqua Leonard, of
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Harvard officials are worried that longtime heavy-hitters will stop donating to Harvard because of the university's tepid response to Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7. "Everyone's concerned about it," said Kenneth Lipper, a Harvard Law School graduate and former deputy mayor
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Former state representative Kate Campanale says she won't run for the state rep seat her husband Peter Durant left vacant Wednesday when he was sworn into the Massachusetts Senate. Campanale, who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 2015 to 2019, told State House News Service on
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A member of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is leaving the court six years before mandatory retirement age for a state university job that will significantly increase his salary and pension. David Lowy, 63, became an assistant district attorney in Essex County in 1992 and has worked in state jobs
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The non-profit organization that runs several Newport mansions as museums has sued the federal government to try to stop the building of hundreds of ocean turbines, some as tall as 968 feet, saying they would ruin the view. "We support green energy," said Trudy Coxe, chief executive officer