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- Violent crime down in Boston
- Violent crime has dipped dramatically in Boston, with homicides on a pace to decrease by 20 percent by year’s end - an encouraging trend that law enforcement officials and community activists are working to preserve during the often…
- Boston Globe
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- Giving thanks
- It is a day for Americans to thank God, to relax, to gather in places of worship and in homes. to enjoy a feast of turkey ... that three-day feast enjoyed by the Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1621. But it had followed the…
- WatertownDailyTimes.com
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- Edison in test of backup power
- WASHINGTON -- Detroit Edison and advanced battery maker A123 Systems will use $5 million from the U.S. Energy Department to see whether used-up batteries from the cars of the future can store emergency power for the electrical grid. It's…
- Detroit Free Press
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- House sales up, prices down in area
- The region is experiencing an upsurge in home sales, and Waltham appears to be enjoying the effects of that revival. Two reports issued this week offer glimmers of hope for the Massachusetts real estate market, with this area only slightly…
- Daily News Tribune
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- The almanac
- In 1987, Chicago's first black mayor, Harold Washington, died in office of a heart attack ... 2007, thousands were evacuated as a wildfire scorched nearly 5,000 acres and destroyed 49 homes in tinder-dry canyons in Malibu, Calif. It was…
- United Press International
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- Editorial: Legal land grabs
- New Jersey is one of seven states with fuzzy eminent domain laws that make it easier to wrongly take people's property. It's a measure the Garden State should clarify, especially in the wake of the fallout from a landmark Connecticut case.…
- Philadelphia Inquirer
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- 2 hours ago
- How to defeat the malignancy of liberalism
- Some months ago I wrote a column entitled "Liberalism is a malignancy." I reviewed the way in which liberals spoil the cities and states in which they live. Then, unable to exist there anymore, they metastasize to other places. However,…
- WND.com
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- 3 hours ago
- Area's jobless down
- An improved export market is helping to revive business in Massachusetts, he said. The state Division ... stream of calls from people who have lost their jobs and are in danger of losing their homes.
- Sun Chronicle
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- Death notices
- ARMITAGE: of Punta Gorda, Fla., formerly of Bergenfield, N.J., and Mattapoisett, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, William D., 90. Widower of Frances Armitage. A memorial service will be held in the spring in Mattapoisett. Arrangements are by…
- South Coast Today
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- Walmart supercenter slated for city
- NORTH ADAMS -- A Fairfield, Conn., developer plans to build a 160,000-square-foot Walmart Supercenter at the old city gravel pit on Curran Highway (Route 8) at an estimated cost of $15 million to $20 million. Ceruzzi Properties of…
- North Adams Transcript
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