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NEW BEDFORD, Mass. (AP) — Maritime historians, climate scientists and ordinary citizens are coming together on a project to study the logbooks of 19th-century whaling ships to better understand modern-day climate change and Arctic weather patterns. Whaling ships kept meticulous daily logbooks of weather conditions during their often yearslong voyages searching
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BOSTON – University of Massachusetts officials defended the system's pay policies Wednesday after the Boston Herald reported some hefty salary increases for President Marty Meehan's already highly compensated staff, pointing out they came as Meehan is trying to get $10.9 million from the Legislature to cover
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STATE HOUSE — Several experts pegged the likely growth of tax revenues in fiscal 2017 at less than 4 percent, citing drags on the economy from an aging workforce and relatively scarce housing combined with an expected further decrease in the income tax rate. At the annual hearing on revenues Wednesday
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BOSTON – Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, a Democrat, and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, a Republican, will top the major party March 1 presidential primary ballots after Secretary of State Bill Galvin pulled their names first in a random drawing to determine the order in which candidates will appear. Galvin selected
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SALEM, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts teenager was convicted Tuesday of raping and killing his high school math teacher when he was 14. Philip Chism followed his ninth-grade algebra teacher, Colleen Ritzer, into a school bathroom, strangled her, stabbed her at least 16 times and raped her.
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Chris Gavriel could barely finish talking about his son before his voice began to shake with emotion Tuesday afternoon at a State House event honoring Gold Star Families. Standing at a podium in Memorial Hall, Gavriel was one of many family members of fallen service members who came to share
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BOSTON – The Massachusetts state income tax rate will fall slightly in January, the third-to-last step in the tax rate's odyssey from 5.95 percent in 1999 to its potential nadir two years from now at the voter-approved level of 5 percent. Gov. Charlie Baker's budget office
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STATE HOUSE — A sticking point in the D.C. donnybrook that led to a 2013 government shutdown, the national debt ceiling has become a perennial catalyst for political brinkmanship in Washington. But Massachusetts has had its own debt ceiling since 1989, and the state is on track to hit it
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