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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 39-year-old man, who is of Swedish descent, visited Sweden in 2000 and was ignored, according to police. The resident of Vinalhaven, a town on an island in Penobscot Bay in Maine, has frequently called the Swedish embassy in Washington D.C., sometimes as often as 10 times a day,
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"When I think about who I am, I am the Democratic Party," Christine Hallquist, a biological male who identifies as a woman, told Seven Days, a Vermont newspaper. On many issues — government involvement in health care, legalizing marijuana, $15-an-hour minimum wage, and transgender rights, as examples — Hallquist touts
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Some school board members in Manchester, New Hampshire are expressing disappointment with a letter the superintendent sent to parents that they say seems to condone the school walkout planned for Wednesday morning to protest lack of gun control. Jimmy Lehoux, a member of the school board, posted an open letter
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The speed of labor took two parents in Salem, New Hampshire by surprise, leading the father to deliver the baby even before emergency medical technicians could get to the house. Chris Alexander and his wife Lisana were getting ready to go to the hospital Tuesday after a neighbor cleared their
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Thirty-nine people died of drug overdoses — most from opioids — in Attleboro, Massachusetts in 2017, which is a 200 percent increase from 2016, according to Attleboro police. About 72 percent of the victims were men and almost all were white, while the largest group were between the ages of 25 and
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The Orleans Police Department has posted photos of cart tracks in peat uncovered when a recent nor'easter blew away sand that had been covering it. Police in the Lower Cape town say they think the cart tracks may be from the late 1800s or early 1900s.
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A New Hampshire woman who won $560 million in the multi-state Powerball lottery can remain anonymous but the town she lives in must be disclosed, a judge ruled. The woman signed the back of her ticket, which the state lottery commission argued means her name has to be made public,
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The clerk of the Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates upgraded hotel rooms during a junket in Boston to deluxe suites, costing the cash-strapped county more than $2,000. Six of the assembly's 15 delegates and the clerk attended the recent Massachusetts Municipal Association conference in Boston, where group