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Episcopal Bishop Offers ‘Blessing of Journalists’

Matthew McDonald

The Episcopal bishop of Western Massachusetts conducted a "Blessing of Journalists" service Wednesday.

The noontime service at Christ Church Cathedral in Springfield was dedicated to Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi Arabian national whom Saudi government operatives murdered in the country's embassy in Turkey on October 2, 2018. Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi government, was a Washington Post columnist.

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Woman Knocks Trump Hat Off Man’s Head in Restaurant, Police Say

Matthew McDonald

A 41-year-old woman verbally abused a man wearing a Make America Great Again hat in a Mexican restaurant in Falmouth and then knocked it off his head, police said.

The man told police he was minding his own business around 8 p.m. Friday, February 15 when the woman started bothering him and he pulled out a cell phone to record a video of her behavior, according to the Cape Cod Times, which cited a police report.

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