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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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Supporters of building a $100 million gondola from South Station to a massive office complex in Raymond L. Flynn Marine Park off Drydock Avenue in South Boston have decided to re-route it down Summer Street. The original design had the gondola traveling over the Mass. Pike interchange in the Seaport
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Waves took out a whole side of a house in the coastal Brant Rock neighborhood of Marshfield, exposing the interior. One longtime resident said the only time she has seen worse damage from a storm was the Blizzard of '78.
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The district attorney of Worcester County, Joseph Early Jr., called the case "awfully complicated." A mother and three small children were found dead in their home in West Brookfield, Massachusetts. Police are asking for help from the public, particularly anyone who might have seen a vehicle in vicinity
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Homes were flooded and streets became impassable in certain areas of the South Shore, particularly Scituate, Marshfield, and Duxbury. The video is riveting.
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New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu says he'll veto a bill seeking to repeal the death penalty if it reaches his desk. The bill has the support of 13 state senators in New Hampshire, which is more than a majority of the 20 members but less than the 14
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A woman and three children — a 7-year-old girl, a 5-year-old boy, and a 2-year-old boy — were found dead in their home in West Brookfield. Authorities late Thursday were calling the deaths suspicious.
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Amazon is in talks to lease an entire 18-story building in the so-called Seaport District of South Boston, enough for 2,000 employees, according to the Boston Business Journal. The planned expansion to Boston is irrespective of the so-called "second headquarters" that Amazon is dangling before various American
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Jennifer Ladd, 40, a high school history teacher in Darien, Connecticut, says she plans to walk out of school on April 20, which anti-gun activists have declared a day of action against gun violence. Unless Congress bans so-called assault weapons, implements universal background checks, and takes other measures to protect