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April 15 is usually tax day, but it's not if you live in Maine or Massachusetts. That's because the IRS has granted residents of those states two extra days to file both their state and federal income taxes, according to its web site.
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A male won a girls' track and field race in Massachusetts last week. Brookline High senior Chloe Barnes took first place in the 100-meter hurdle event against Newton North on Wednesday, April 10.
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The right-to-shelter law in Massachusetts has been a top political issue in the state over the past year, as have potential reforms to it. Governor Maura Healey capped the state's emergency shelter system at 7,500 families last fall, resulting in waiting lists to get into the system.
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The leading funds-in-hand candidate among GOP contenders seeking to take on U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren this fall calls himself "a Charlie Baker-type" Republican and supports abortion and same-sex marriage. John Deaton, 56, a lawyer originally from Michigan, said he "doesn't support any of the
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service
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Massachusetts Republican Party chairman Amy Carnevale laid out her party's vision for the future this past week. Carnevale did so in a press release issued by the MassGOP.
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A Worcester man pleaded guilty this week to using a stolen identity to apply for a United States passport after he had illegally re-entered the United States despite a past deportation. Rohan Andrew Brown, a 56-year-old, pleaded guilty to a count of unlawful reentry of a deported alien and another
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The mayor of Attleboro's proposal to create a Diversity Committee in city government drew sharp criticism from the lone black member of the city council earlier this week. Jonathan Tavares, a city councilor at large and a black man, noted that the city government already has a Council