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After a slapshot from a boy injured one of her teammates, a captain of the Dighton-Rehoboth Regional High School field hockey team wrote a letter to the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association calling for change. In its 2-1 loss to Swampscott in the MIAA Division 3 Round of 32 matchup against
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Democrats in the Massachusetts House of Representatives are planning to pass a $250 million increase for the state's emergency shelter system to house more migrants who have entered the country without official status. The money would be part of a $2.74 billion supplemental budget bill for the
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Massachusetts Department of Revenue commissioner Geoffrey Snyder has announced that state government revenue collections for October 2023 totaled $2.558 billion, which is $196 million (or 8.3 percent) more than actual collections in October 2022. However, the October 2023 figure is $186 million (or 6.8 percent) below the
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Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William F. Galvin wants voters who have not returned their mail-in ballots for next Tuesday's elections to return those ballots by hand, if possible. Galvin said mailing ballots this late is too risky, in a press release issued by his office. He noted
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Enforcement and Removal Operations Boston, a division of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, arrested an illegal immigrant in Bourne who was convicted of homicide in Venezuela, federal officials said. The 38-year-old Venezuelan national had been living in state-provided migrant housing on Joint Base Cape Cod in Bourne. The arrest
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Members of Barnstable County's Assembly of Delegates are considering a pay raise that would increase their yearly stipends from $1,000 to $5,000. The proposed increase would add an additional $2,000 for the speaker and another $1,000 for the deputy speaker on top of the
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By Chris Lisinski State House News Service