The $25 million is the latest in a series of payouts included in the state’s supplemental budget approved in April.
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Press Play: Listen to ‘Four Walls’ by Human Moods
The song is the first single from the forthcoming album.
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Got Tix: Where to find concert tickets to upcoming shows
Portland trio Weakened Friends opens for Boston rock act Slothrust on Friday at the State Theatre.
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Case against Paul Haggis joins month of Hollywood #MeToo trials
A lawsuit pits the Oscar-winning moviemaker against a publicist who alleges that he raped her.
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Whites are now more likely to die from covid than Blacks. Here’s why the pandemic shifted.
As the pandemic progressed, the damage done by the coronavirus broadened, and the toxicity of modern-day politics came to the fore.
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FDA panel backs removal of unproven pregnancy drug
Some panelists encourage drug company Covis to continue studying the drug to determine if a subgroup of women could benefit.
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‘That ’70s Show’ actor Danny Masterson facing 3 rape charges
Key figures in the trial are all current or former members of the Church of Scientology.
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Are you a mosquito magnet? It could be your smell
Out of mosquitoes’ favorites, the researchers found a common factor: People who are mosquito magnets had high levels of certain acids on their skin.
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Novel by Sri Lanka’s Shehan Karunatilaka wins Booker Prize
Karunatilaka won the prestigious award for fiction for ‘The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.’ Among those in the running was part-time Maine resident Elizabeth Strout.
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Next COVID wave could be on a collision course with holiday travel
Coronavirus surges in Europe and Asia could soon come to the United States, injecting chaos into Thanksgiving and Christmas travel plans.