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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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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
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A Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe member held up a Palestine flag on the tribe's float during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City on Thursday, but the tribe says it takes no position on the Israel-Hamas war. "It's unfortunate that we are
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A Vermont cartoonist who forged a copy of an original Norman Rockwell painting so he could keep the original from his wife's divorce lawyer ended up leaving his adult children a multi-million-dollar payoff years after his death. Don Trachte, who died in 2005 at age 89, displayed the
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Massachusetts state auditor Diane DiZoglio's campaign to put a ballot question before voters next year giving the auditor explicit authority to audit the state legislature says it submitted more than enough signatures to meet a crucial deadline. DiZoglio and what State House News Service called "her hodgepodge
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Duxbury (10-1) defeated Marshfield (9-3) in a dramatic 23-21 rivalry game on Thanksgiving Day. Duxbury was down seven points in the third quarter, but scored a touchdown to almost tie it – only to have its placekicker, Gavin Hammond, miss the extra point.
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Two Massachusetts members of Congress who are among the most left-leaning on Capitol Hill have joined several conservative Republicans in calling on the Biden administration to drop charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange, 52, a native of Australia, has been in prison in England since 2019 while fighting extradition
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The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is recommending public colleges and universities join a national trade association for abortion providers. It's one of the suggestions the state agency made in a 47-page blueprint made public Wednesday that is designed to help public schools of higher learning "to