A group based in Alabama enlists people to send handwritten letters to potential Democratic voters asking them to register to vote.
Carol Semple
Posted inLocal & State, Uncategorized
Rat infestation has plagued a Somerset County town for over 6 months
Garbage and manure left at a home next to the elementary school in Hartland are attracting the rats, neighbors complain.
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Posted inNation & World
Trump escalates spat over Greenland after canceling trip to Denmark
He says the Danish prime minister made a ‘nasty’ remark when she characterized his interest in buying Greenland as ‘absurd.’
Posted inNation & World, Uncategorized
Jeffrey Epstein may have gamed the system from beyond the grave
By putting his fortune in a trust, he made it more difficult for women who say he sexually abused them to collect from his estate.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, Uncategorized
Stocks climb after major U.S. retailers post solid earnings
Target logs its biggest-ever gain, while Lowe’s has its best day in more than a year.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
Pentagon cancels billion-dollar missile defense project
Officials say they are pulling the plug on a Boeing contract because its design problems were either insurmountable or too costly to correct.
Posted inNew England
Massachusetts registry director fired in wake of motorcycle crash that killed 7
The agency had stopped processing alerts from other states about Massachusetts drivers who’d broken traffic laws, including the driver charged in the crash.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, New England
Theft of oysters hinders Cape Cod aquaculture program
It isn’t clear why anyone would take about 4,000 immature oysters that weren’t yet large enough to be sold.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, Uncategorized
Planning to fly over Labor Day weekend? Expect a crowd, airlines say
One economist says consumers should be checking prices for Christmas travel already and should buy tickets no later than Halloween.
Posted inBusiness, New England
East Coast squid fishery to be restricted through end of 2019
Fishermen from Maine to North Carolina harvest millions of pounds of squid every year.