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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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Dr. William K. Dean, 63, a prominent resident of Jaffrey, New Hampshire, was found at the bottom of a cistern one morning in August 1918, bludgeoned and garroted to death. No one was ever charged in the murder, although theories abounded — including one having to do with a mysterious errand
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Jackie Hill-Perry, who says she was "saved from a lifestyle of homosexual sin," encouraged about 300 listeners at Harvard College to practice self-denial for God. "There is not such a thing as being born gay, but there is such a thing as being born broken, broken by
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The Massachusetts Trial Court is eliminating the position of "court reporter," which refers to stenographers who produce a verbatim transcript of court proceedings, in favor of a recording system called For The Record. The 37 court reporter positions in Massachusetts in 2017 will be eliminated June 30, 2018
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Spending on public relations and communications is soaring at colleges and universities in the United States, leading to aggressive pushing of questionable story lines, homogenization of comments, and limitations on access to information. At the University of New Hampshire, the public relations office cooked up a flimsy association between a
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An "order" before the Maine House of Representatives would ask the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to rule on whether Indian tribes can open casinos without state approval, according to the Bangor Daily News.
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The case of Ali Bibaud started out in a Worcester court, where a judge ordered a Massachusetts State Police report redacted — even though Bibaud is the daughter of a Dudley District Court judge who spent 20 years as a prosecutor in the Worcester District Attorney's office. The Worcester
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Booze is relatively cheap in New Hampshire because state excise taxes are lower than in most other states — so some restaurants in New York City send people to the Granite State to buy liquor and illegally transport it there. The New Hampshire Liquor Commission makes it easy by facilitating purchases
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The Parent Teacher Association in Hampton, New Hampshire retitled the annual father-daughter dance the "Family Dance" and invited everyone to join — which has some fathers peeved. "It's the first time a girl is being taken on a date, and it's by the most