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Gender exists on a spectrum, and more than two genders exist, a curriculum at Sharon Middle School School says. The sixth-grade health curriculum at Sharon Middle School uses the genderbread person to teach this claim as fact, rather than the common understanding that there are two sexes, male and female,
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State financial aid forms in English and Spanish are now available to students in the country illegally who attending or planning to attend public or private colleges in Massachusetts. "We are taking quite a bit of care to make certain that if a student starts an application and does
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By Sam Drysdale State House News Service
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U.S. Representative Ayanna Pressley (D-Hyde Park) wants the federal government to commit to not deport anyone to Haiti. Given the political instability in the country, including the recently announced resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry and recently heightened gang violence, Pressley told GBH News that deporting someone to Haiti
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Vice President Scott Brown? It was a possibility that independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. considered.
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A man was arrested in Rockland this week after police said he raped a child at a hotel that serves as a migrant shelter. Cory B. Alvarez, 26, is accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on Hingham Street in Rockland, the Plymouth County District Attorney's Office said
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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey is adding a new "Office of Energy Transformation" to try to de-carbonize "community-by-community," her administration said. The new office "will provide leadership in strategic planning, roadmap development, and stakeholder engagement to advance the transformation of the state's energy delivery
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A 38-year-old New Hampshire man charged with killing his pregnant live-in girlfriend has been indicted on two second-degree murder charges – the woman and the unborn baby. A Carroll County grand jury indicted the man, William Kelly, of Ossipee, New Hampshire.