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Four Senators Jockeying for Presidency of Massachusetts Senate … When It’s Available

Matthew McDonald

State Senators Eileen Donoghue (D-Lowell), Karen Spilka (D-Ashland), Linda Dorcena Forry (D-Dorchester), and Sal DiDomenico (D-Everett) are all interested in leading the Massachusetts Senate if and when current Senate President Stan Rosenberg leaves. Rosenberg has taken a leave of absence while the Senate investigates allegations of sexual assault and influence-flaunting by his civil-law husband.

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Brockton Pearl Harbor Survivor Recalls Lost Comrades, 76 Years Later

Matthew McDonald

George Hursey, 96, was serving in the U.S. Army at Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked on December 7, 1941. "By the edge of Pearl Harbor, all you see is burning ships," he recalled, as he and other artillery soldiers navigated through burning fields and dead bodies; he stayed in touch with the 110 survivors from his unit after the war, but he thinks all of them have since died.

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