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As 2015 fades out, here are the Bay State’s most memorable moments
BOSTON – Plenty of Massachusetts news was fit to print in 2015. Here's our take on the 10 biggest Bay State stories of the year, in chronological order:
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Former Moral Majority leader Ed Dobson dies
Ed Dobson, a onetime architect of the religious right who later spent a year "living like Jesus," died Saturday (Dec. 26). Dobson, the retired pastor of the prominent Calvary Church in Grand Rapids, Mich., suffered for more than 15 years from Lou Gehrig's disease, or amyotrophic
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Patients who overdose on opioids get them again, study shows
BOSTON – Most patients who receive drugs to treat chronic pain and overdose on opioid medications still get the addictive synthetic opiates through their doctors, a new study shows. The 12-year study released Monday by the Boston Medical Center tracked almost 3,000 people who were treated in an emergency room
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The Year 2015 and the ‘Peril of Hope’
"It is right there Betwixt and between The orchard bare And the orchard green" — Robert Frost from "Peril of Hope" With an eerie prescience, the January 9 front page print edition of The Boston Globe captured perfectly the mixture of fear and anticipation associated with the
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Andover man pulls unloaded gun on snow plow driver
Authorities say a man pulled an unloaded gun on a snow plow driver during a road rage incident as the first winter snows fell on Massachusetts. Police say Michael McCullom had been attempting turn onto North Main Street on Tuesday morning and nearly crashed into a snow plow. The 51-year-old
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Toasting what was and what is yet to come at Gardner Museum
"Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind?" Isabella Stewart Gardner welcomed guests to her 15th-century-inspired Venetian styled palace for the first time on New Year's Eve 1903. Sipping champagne and eating donuts, the Boston Symphony Orchestra played while friends roamed the galleries of
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Pay equity, cell phone driving and records bills on deck in 2016
STATE HOUSE — The Senate is gearing up for a mid-January session to pass legislation banning the use of a handheld cell phone use by motorists, and later in the month could pass a pay equity bill before debating public records reform in February. The "tentative" agenda – subject to
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Trump plans rally next week in Lowell
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump will ring in the first full week of the new year with a campaign stop in Lowell. According to the Trump campaign, the candidate will host a rally Monday, Jan. 4 at the Paul E. Tsongas Center at UMass Lowell. The event will begin at
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