Now 56 years old, Smart was 22 when she began an affair with a 15-year-old who later fatally shot her husband, Gregory Smart, in Derry, New Hampshire.
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Martha’s Vineyard is about to run out of pot. That’s led to a lawsuit and a scramble by regulators
Although Massachusetts voters opted to legalize marijuana more than 7 years ago, the state’s Cannabis Control Commission has taken the position that transporting pot across the ocean risks running afoul of federal laws.
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Vermont police won’t charge Maine couple in case of dead baby in 1982
Vermont State Police worked with a DNA technology company to do genealogy analysis that led them the mother and father, who confirmed they were the parents.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, New England
Stanley Goldstein, who helped build CVS drugstore empire, dies at 89
From a single store in Massachusetts in 1963, CVS has grown into a health-care giant with more than 9,000 locations.
Posted inNation & World, New England, Politics
Political consultant behind fake Biden robocalls in New Hampshire faces $6 million fine, criminal charges
The FCC said the fine it proposed for Steven Kramer, who has admitted to orchestrating the phony message, is its first involving generative AI technology.
Posted inNation & World, New England, Schools and Education
Billionaire rains cash on UMass graduates to tune of $1,000 each, but says they must give half away
Billionaire philanthropist Rob Hale had a suprise for the graduating class at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, but it came with a catch.
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A murderous romance or frame job? Things to know about Boston’s Karen Read murder trial
The trial of a woman charged in the death of her Boston police officer boyfriend is finishing its third week.
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A college puts the ‘cat’ into ‘education’ by giving tabby honorary ‘doctor of litter-ature’ degree
The popular tabby lives in a house with his human family on the street that leads to the main entrance to campus.
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Teen who ate spicy tortilla chip died of high chili consumption and had heart defect, autopsy says
The cause of death was listed as cardiopulmonary arrest ‘in the setting of recent ingestion of food substance with high capsaicin concentration,’ according to the autopsy. Capsaicin is the component that gives chile peppers their heat.
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Man gets over 3 years in prison for posting video threatening school shooting in New Hampshire
Kyle Hendrickson, who was arrested in Portland last year, is sentenced to 37 months in prison for posting a Snapchat video of himself with a gun outside Portsmouth High School.