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West Roxbury Woman Gets Back Stolen Wallet With Cash — Eight Years Later

Matthew McDonald

The now-30-year-old woman's wallet was stolen from her car in Wellfleet on Cape Cod on July 25, 2009. A Boston cop showed up at the house where the woman grew up with the intact wallet, which someone had given him after driving up to him; the woman is a lapsed Catholic, but her mother thinks possibly her grandmother was praying for her.

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Dennis Selectmen Back Pro-Illegal Immigrant Measure

Matthew McDonald

The petition warrant article asks voters at annual Town Meeting in the Cape Cod town to make it town policy not to use local resources to enforce federal immigration laws. The town's police chief says his department already complies with it; the sponsors say the police can continue to comply with detainer requests from the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency even if the measure is approved. 

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