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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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Governor Charlie Baker told an interviewer he hadn't heard about a $100,000 bathroom that the Massachusetts Department of Transportation installed at its headquarters in Boston – 17 days after it was first reported by WCVB Channel 5. The 115-square-foot bathroom and kitchenette were installed in a boardroom so
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Hartford is unlikely to get an expansion National Hockey League team, but if one of the New York teams ever moves it's possible it could come to Connecticut, UConn's hockey coach said. Mike Cavanaugh, asked whether a successor to the old Hartford Whalers could ever come
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A left-leaning newspaper in western Massachusetts is calling on U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren to resolve the is-she-or-isn't-she dispute over whether she is part American Indian once and for all. "So we call upon our senior senator to screw up her courage and take the spit test,
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A New Hampshire woman who won $560 million in the Powerball lottery from a ticket she bought at a store in the Reeds Ferry section of Merrimack, New Hampshire got a wire transfer for her winnings, but her legal bid to remain unidentified is not yet resolved. A judge has
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The ship, one of five in the history of the United States Navy called Lexington, was scuttled after being severely damaged by the Japanese during the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen led an expedition that found the ship about 500 miles off Australia&
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A federal judge in Idaho has ruled that a state agency there cannot simply reject a request from a person who seeks to change the biological sex noted on a birth certificate. The case came about when two transgender people sought to change the sex on their birth certificate from
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Nearly 2,700 people showed up at Providence Municipal Court to appeal speeding tickets generated by five new cameras installed in school zones on Monday, as opposed to the usual 300. The cameras and vehicle detectors are designed to identify how fast a car is going and take a picture
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John Fish, chief executive officer of Suffolk Construction, a major builder in Boston, donated $500,000 to a political action committee trying to help the Democrats win a majority of the U.S. Senate in the November 2018 election. It appears to be the single biggest political donation Fish has