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Card Game Highlights Black History and Culture
For many people in Massachusetts and across the country, the pandemic has meant a lot of family time, with nights out on the town being replaced by family game nights in. “We were playing card games like Uno and Go Fish and whatnot,” said Worcester native Dominique Price. Price says while those games were fun, there was something missing. “It…
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Massachusetts Man Undergoes Surgery to Remove Swallowed AirPod
After an exhausting late night shoveling during Monday’s nor’easter, Bradford Gauthier of Worcester, Massachusetts, learned a lesson he won’t soon forget. “We have a 6-month-old baby, so we don’t watch TV at night in the room, so I always end up wearing my AirPods and just watching Netflix or whatever,” said Gauthier. But when he woke up Tuesday to...
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Program at Massachusetts Medical School Seeks to Bridge Racial Gap in Health Care Work
Kassandra Jean-Marie has always wanted to be a doctor, but she says the reason has changed. “I’m smiling because my answer to that question has changed so many times throughout my years,” she said. Jean-Marie’s mom is a nurse, and that inspired her. “She always came home and I could definitely see she was tired some nights, but she...
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Med Student Treated COVID-19 Patients, Got Infected, Went Back to Work After Recovery
It was in early March that Michelle Shabo began feeling the symptoms of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
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JetBlue Crew Members Save French Bulldog on Flight to Massachusetts
On a JetBlue flight Thursday from Florida to Worcester, Massachusetts, Michele and Steven Burt’s French Bulldog, Darcy, had trouble breathing.
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12-Year-Old Suspended From Worcester Middle School for Hugging Gym Teacher
A 12-year-old student in Worcester, Massachusetts, has been suspended for hugging a gym teacher. The foster mother of the Forest Grove Middle School student is asking for change after the boy was suspended for 10 days and given a record of physical assault of a teacher.
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‘Oh My God, There's a Baby in There': Railroad Engineer Finds Twins Near Train Tracks
A railroad engineer was in the middle of his overnight shift when he spotted twin 9-month-old babies alone near the tracks in Worcester, Massachusetts. Police responded around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday after the baby boys were found in the area of the railroad tracks near Cambridge Street and Kansas Street.
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Junior ROTC Members Save Residents From Worcester Apartment Fire
A fire at a Worcester, Massachusetts apartment left 13 people spending the Thanksgiving holiday at a hotel, but it could have been much worse if it wasn’t for a group of high schoolers on their way home. Four junior ROTC members were driving home from their high school when they saw smoke at a Hamilton Street apartment building. “When we...
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Students to Stage Gun Control Rally Outside Smith & Wesson
Students demanding stricter gun control measures and an end to the school shootings that have rocked the U.S. are completing a four-day march to the Smith & Wesson headquarters. About 40 students and supporters set off from downtown Worcester in central Massachusetts Thursday, holding signs denouncing gun violence and chanting slogans criticizing gun makers and the National Rifle Association.
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Puerto Rican Evacuees Get Another Extension on Housing
Hundreds of Hurricane Maria evacuees from Puerto Rico who are living in hotels around the nation have been given more weeks to use temporary housing vouchers.
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More Organic Than Thou? Rebel Farmers Create New Food Label
Was your tomato grown in dirt or water? Organic shoppers might notice additional labels this summer that will give them the answer — and tell them whether their choices align with what a rebellious group of farmers and scientists deem the true spirit of the organic movement. About 15 farmers and scientists from around the country met in Vermont late...
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Police: Maryland Man Mistakes Friend for Turkey, Shoots Him
A Maryland man suffered minor injuries when his friend mistook him for a turkey and shot him.
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Search for Missing Small Plane Underway in Ocean City
A search for a missing small plane is underway off Ocean City, Maryland, officials say. The pilot took off from Baltimore County Wednesday night, en route to Ocean City, and still had not been seen by Thursday morning, state police said Thursday afternoon.
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Man's Body Recovered After Plane Crash off Maryland Coast
Maryland State Police say the body of a plane crash victim has been recovered.
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DEA Seizes $570M Worth of Chemical Used in the Manufacture of Fentanyl
Federal agents announced Friday that they seized 50 kilograms of a chemical used to manufacture the powerful opioid fentanyl from a storage facility in Massachusetts last month.
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Police: Kidnapped 7-Year-Old Girl Survives Being Thrown Off Bridge
Authorities in Massachusetts say a 7-year-old was choked and thrown from a bridge after being kidnapped from a family party at her grandparents’ home in Worcester.
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Maryland AG Office: Topless Women Not the Same as Topless Men
Ocean City, Maryland, can tell topless women to cover up — but men can keep their shirts off, according to a letter from the Maryland attorney general’s office.
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Ocean City Changes Their Approach to Topless Women Sunbathing
Workers in Ocean City are told they should document complaints of toplessness, but they shouldn’t approach topless women – even if beachgoers request it.
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Guitarist, Founder of The J. Geils Band Found Dead in Groton Home
John Warren Geils Jr., a member of the rock group The J. Geils Band, was found dead in his Groton, Massachusetts, home on Tuesday, police confirmed.
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Oldest American, New Jersey's Adele Dunlap, Turns 114
The oldest American, a New Jersey resident, is yet another year older. Adele Dunlap received balloons Monday, and fellow residents at the Country Arch Care Center in Pittstown sang “Happy Birthday” to the 114-year-old. But The Record reports Dunlap didn’t appreciate the fuss. Asked what she was thankful for, Dunlap said, “Gee, how should I know?” As for a birthday...