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Associated Press poll: Majority of Americans harbor prejudice against blacks
Racial attitudes have not improved in the four years since the United States elected its first black president, an Associated Press poll finds, as a slight majority of Americans now express prejudice...
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19-year-old Springfield man killed in gang-related shooting on Eastern Avenue
The shooting death is the 10th homicide of the year and the 2nd in Springfield since Tuesday. Police said the two are not related. Watch video Springfield detectives examine evidence in the middle of...
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Cloudy overnight, low 50
Remaining cloudy through tomorrow. Sandy's rain/wind arrives Monday. The cloud shield from Hurricane Sandy has spread northward into our region, but it will simply remain that overnight; cloudy skies...
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'Perfect Storm' skipper Ray Leonard leery of Hurricane Sandy
Ray Leonard, the skipper whose 32-foot sailboat that rode out THE perfect storm 21 years ago, offers his views on Hurricane Sandy. A marina worker rinses off a fishing boat pulled out from the Indian...
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Tips on preparing for Hurricane Sandy
The Federal Emergency Management Agency offers tips on how to prepare for Hurricane Sandy and other tropical storms. The Federal Emergency Management Agency offers tips on how to prepare for Hurricane...
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Chicopee man arrested in Dugout Cafe Attack
The bartender was injured in the attack and treated at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield. Michael Lebert Submitted by Chicopee Police Department CHICOPEE – Police arrested a 49-year-old city...
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Khary Bailey-Smith latest freshman defender to step in for UMass football team
Bailey-Smith recovered two fumbles, one of which he forced, against Vanderbilt on Saturday. UMass defensive back Randall Jette can't catch Vanderbilt's Wesley Tate during the first quarter of...
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Frustration mounts for Charley Molnar, Mike Wegzyn as UMass offense continues...
Molnar said "nothing was off the table" after Saturday's loss to Vanderbilt. Michael Cox gets tackled during Saturday's loss to Vanderbilt. Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Maybe it’s unfair to be...
View ArticleMagnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes off Canadian coast, tsunami warning issued
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the west coast of Canada and a tsunami warning was issued, authorities said, but there were no immediate reports of major damage. By JEREMY HAINSWORTH, Associated...
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Reader Raves News section: Vote for your Western Mass. favorites
Vote for your favorites in these 10 News-related categories. #raves .cover { background: #ccc url(http://media.masslive.com/republican/photo/2012/06/-c25d853a4f6a1c1d.jpg) top center no-repeat; }...
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Power Players: Massachusetts business leaders donate millions to campaigns...
The campaign finance data shows the business executives are a largely bi-partisan group. By SCOTT Van VOORHIS, SARAH KURANDA and JENNA RUSSO Unleashed by a 2010 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, top...
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Voters in Massachusetts to decide if terminally ill can end their own lives...
Under the ballot question, terminally-ill adults in Massachusetts could request that a doctor prescribe a lethal dose of pills. Voters next month will decide the fate of a ballot question that would...
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Voters in Massachusetts to consider ballot measure on medical marijuana
Seventeen other states and the District of Columbia have adopted medical marijuana laws, including California in 1996 and Connecticut in June. Four years after Massachusetts voters overwhelmingly...
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Reader Raves 2.0: Winter-Spring edition of The Republican-MassLive.com reader...
Online voting begins today and runs through Dec. 2. SPRINGFIELD – After a successful debut that logged 30,000 page views and 3,000 votes in 30 days, what can Reader Raves do for an encore? How about...
View ArticleTsunami waves smaller than expected at start in Hawaii
But Gerard Fryer of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said Saturday night that the first waves are usually not the biggest for tsunamis in Hawaii. He says it could be as long as seven hours before...
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Campaign issues 2012: Barack Obama, Mitt Romney's views on immigration key to...
This is the fifth in a six-part series by The Washington Post taking a look at the major issues in the 2012 presidential campaign. People wait in hopes of getting an application for deferred status...
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Cloudy, breezy later today, high 60
Another cloudy, but mainly dry day. Sandy's impacts begin tomorrow. Today will start out very similar to yesterday...just a quiet, cloudy weekend morning. A scattered shower may develop later in the...
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As Hurricane Sandy looms, anniversary of pre-Halloween snowstorm still brings...
After a year of mind-bending weather, with ice storms, blizzards, tornadoes, a tropical storm and earthquake, the Halloween nor’easter was the most wicked storm of all. By 8 p.m., wet snow was...
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Cloudy, a few showers by morning, low 50
One more quiet night...worst of Sandy between 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. Monday. Conditions remain virtually the same for western Massachusetts heading through the overnight ... overcast skies, breezy, but...
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Obama balancing storm response with campaigning
Obama scrapped some of his campaign events for Monday to monitor the storm. President Barack Obama hugs his daughter Sasha as he walks with Malia as they leave St. John's Episcopal Church to walk...
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