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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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Students at Inter-Lakes High School in Meredith, New Hampshire staged a 17-minute walkout at midday this past Wednesday to honor the Florida school shooting victims and protest Congress for not banning AR-15 rifles. The superintendent won't say whether the student who led the walkout or any of the
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Rick Green's experience as an entrepreneur resonates with his supporters and helps separate him from other candidates in their eyes. Green, 47, co-founder of 1A Auto Parts in Pepperell, is running for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in the Third District, which includes large
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An American flag that draped the coffin of a World War II veteran was stored at the American Legion post in Falmouth, Maine, but it has gone missing and is presumed stolen. The flag was kept in an oak case inside the building, which is often rented by organizations holding
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John Mejia, a staff member at the University of Vermont, subsisted on only water from Friday, February 16 through Thursday, February 22 to try to get a Black Lives Matter flown permanently on campus and to get increased funding and endorsement for anti-racism events. But there was an unexpected drawback.
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A 32-year-old man who lives in Ansonia, Connecticut set his car on fire after his girlfriend asked him to leave the house, police said. The man used the clothes his girlfriend packed for him to set his 1999 Honda Accord on fire shortly after midnight, according to The Connecticut Post
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Police in Hartford, Connecticut didn't read a 34-year-old man his Miranda rights when they showed up at his apartment in December 2015 after receiving a call that the man had human skeletal remains in his home and so prosecutors can't use what cops found there, a
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Bill Gates somehow managed to get the U.S. Department of Education not only to buy into Common Core but also foist it on local school districts all over the land — in less than five years. Joyce Pullman's book The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for
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The "extreme risk protection order" bill would allow law enforcement officers to ask a judge for an order to take away someone's guns for up to 60 days if police determine the person is an "extreme risk" to himself or others. The Vermont Senate