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How A Liza Minnelli Movie Changed the Law in Massachusetts

Matthew McDonald

On July 31, 1969 Liza Minnelli took off most or all of her clothes in Blue Hills Cemetery in Braintree while acting in a scene for a movie she was making.

That didn't sit well with a Randolph widow whose husband was buried there. Margaret Fornaro, 48, had lost her husband suddenly six years before, when he was 43.

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Parents Who Come To Pick Up Kids at YMCA Reeking of Marijuana

Matthew McDonald

Parents and other adults dropping off and picking up kids at the YMCA of Greater Springfield are arriving smelling like weed, a Y official says.

Recreational marijuana became legal in Massachusetts in December 2016, but the first recreational marijuana shops began opening only recently.

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