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PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Buddy Cianci, the wisecracking politician who led the city of Providence during a turbulent and troubled six terms as mayor, will be laid to rest in an event as big as his personality. The former mayor will be carried through the streets of the city he
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NEW BEDFORD – Mayor Jon Mitchell shrugs off those who mock his city for failing to land high-profile developments, like a $650 million waterfront casino or an assembly line for Cape Wind turbines. New Bedford may not have hit it out of the park this year, but "we're
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FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — Jasiel Correia is 24 years old, the maker of a smartphone app, a former shoe salesman – and this hard-luck former manufacturing hub's third mayor in 13 months. Two weeks into his term, Correia is tackling the economic malaise that has depressed this waterfront city
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Massachusetts residents will hear about the state of its biggest city, Boston, and the state of the Commonwealth during the same week. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, whose initial State of the City explored a now defunct bid to host the 2024 summer Olympics, returns to Symphony Hall on Tuesday, Jan.
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MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three people, including a minor, were being held Sunday in the slaying of a newly inaugurated mayor just hours into her term in a gang-troubled central Mexican city. Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez ordered flags on state buildings flown at half-staff and called for three days of mourning
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — The former mayor of Bridgeport, who spent seven years in federal prison for public corruption, was sworn in again on Tuesday as mayor of Connecticut's largest city. Joe Ganim's inaugural ceremony capped off a stunning political comeback. Just five years out of prison,
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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Five years after his release from prison, former Bridgeport Mayor Joe Ganim has ridden an unlikely comeback bid to the brink of winning back his old job in Connecticut's biggest city. Ganim, who spent seven years behind bars for corruption, enters Tuesday's election
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Written by Andy Metzger STATE HOUSE, BOSTON Abandoned by a casino developer that aimed to redevelop a polluted, harbor-side former power plant, New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell said missing out on the casino is a "bump in the road" and will not stop the city's economic
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