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The 36th annual New Bedford Half Marathon will likely host a record number of runners this year, and first time half-marathoner Sydney Patten is psyched.

The 23-year-old Patten says she was inspired by family and other runners to take part in the 13

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Poll numbers show Congressman Ed Markey holding a clear advantage over Democratic rival Stephen Lynch in the upcoming Senate race.  

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Republican State Rep. Daniel Winslow has officially entered the race for the U.S. Senate.

Winslow said in letter to supporters and GOP activists on Thursday that he would be a candidate in the special election to fill the seat formerly held by Secretary of State John Kerry

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It was standing room only at the Claire T. Carney Library's Grand Reading Room at UMass Dartmouth, as college students and others gathered to listen to Democratic Senate Candidate Elizabeth Warren

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Is the new normal for educating our children going to be based on expecting a little more from the THAT group and a little less from THAT group?

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Outside political groups are pouring millions into Massachusetts' U.S. Senate race.  The groups appear to be honoring a deal signed by Republican Sen. Brown and Democrat Warren designed to keep outside ads off television, radio and the Internet. 

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A unidentified Walpole power boat racer died as the result of a crash during a competition at Watson Pond in Taunton Sunday. Witnesses say the man’s boat flipped over toward the end of a race. Paramedics tried to resuscitate the man after he was taken out of the water, and he was transported in an ambulance from the scene

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William Keating is one step closer to returning to Capitol Hill in Washington. Sam Sutter is headed back to the District Attorney's office on Purchase Street.

Keating soundly defeated Sutter in the 9th Congressional District Democratic Primary on Thursday

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