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MA High School Athletes Don't Need Vaccines — Yet: Patch PM
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I am Patch's editor for Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Rhode Island. Before joining Patch in 2017, I worked for the Boston Globe, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, the Dow Jones News Service and the Old Colony Memorial in Plymouth.
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A new report from RoboKiller shows more than 40.1 billion spam calls have cost people in Massachusetts and others more than $325 million.
The “Finlay-id meteor shower” won’t be visible in the skies over Massachusetts, but it offers an interesting lesson about comets.
Brown marmorated stink bugs, which have been detected in Massachusetts and 46 others, are trying to crawl into your house for the winter.
The cause of the outbreak remains unknown, but it has already sickened 10 MA residents. Here's what we know about Salmonella Oranienburg.
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A class action lawsuit filed accuses Boston Beer Co. of failing to disclose poor hard seltzer sales projections to shareholders.
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The SJC ruled a detective should not have reviewed the footage from an officer who entered a home to obtain a search warrant.
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Massachusetts residents who died on 9/11 will be among those memorialized at services across the country on the attack’s 20th anniversary.
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The unofficial rain totals are in from the overnight storm, with one Massachusetts city recording nearly 10 inches of rainfall.
A "season of shivers" awaits most of the country, the publication says. In Massachusetts, expect above-average snowfall.