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Two Powerball tickets sold in Massachusetts have each won $1 million
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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July 10, 2025
BOSTON — Check your tickets. Two $1 million winning tickets were sold in Massachusetts for Wednesday’s Powerball drawing, lottery officials said Thursday. One of the winning tickets was sold at Market Basket at 130 Water St. in Fitchburg. The...
US visa denial forces Australian musical comedy duo to postpone start of world tour
The Sydney Morning Herald
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July 11, 2025
The world tour of popular Australian musical comedy duo TwoSet Violin has been thrown into question after one of the members’ US visa application was denied two months before their tour was to begin. Brett Yang and Eddy Chen, TwoSet Violin’s...
Inspection finds issues with cleanliness, patient medications at VA Boston Healthcare System
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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July 10, 2025
BOSTON — An inspection report released Thursday by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Inspector General found instances of expired hand sanitizer, dirty equipment being stored with clean equipment, and rusty poles used to hold I.V. bags...
‘It’s just disgusting!’: New video shows rats running rampant in broad daylight in Boston
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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July 11, 2025
BOSTON — New video captured by Boston 25 News shows rats running rampant in broad daylight in Boston amid renewed calls for a dedicated “rat czar” in the city. The footage shows rats crawling near people’s doorways, under cars, and through garbage...
Music festival to benefit hunger fighters
Biz West - Colorado
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July 10, 2025
LONGMONT — A music festival to be held Saturday in Longmont will bring together music, food and community action to fight hunger. The Roots & Rhythm Music Festival, to be held from noon to 9 p.m. in The Garden at Left Hand Brewing, 1245 Boston...
Dale Earnhardt Jr. takes complaining NASCAR fans to task, media for giving platform
Yardbarker
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July 10, 2025
Each week, a new batch of complaints and critiques pops up in the NASCAR world, but Dale Earnhardt Jr. has about had it. The Hall of Famer doesn’t think media should waste time on the vocal minority online. In fact, he says he doesn’t see many...
USPS To Release Stamps Celebrating Boston 2026 World Stamp Expo
The Katy News - Texas
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July 11, 2025
What: At the 2025 Great American Stamp Show in Schaumburg IL, the U.S. Postal Service will issue a set of stamps in anticipation of the Boston 2026 World Stamp Exposition. Issued to celebrate this once-a-decade extravaganza, these two stamps...
New Giant Rafael Devers turns the page on Boston, excited for second half in S.F.
The Union Democrat - California
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Changing organizations for the first time can be tough, in midseason even more so. And yet, for Rafael Devers, joining the San Francisco Giants in mid-June after spending his entire career in Boston was no sweat. Devers fit right in right away,...
Town-by-town reports: Highest rainfall totals in Massachusetts
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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July 10, 2025
WEYMOUTH, Mass. — An unrelenting summer storm brought a deluge of rain to eastern Massachusetts on Thursday, leading to flash flooding during the morning commute. Many areas were drenched by several inches of rain, highways and roads left...
Tony Award-winning musical 'Hamilton' returns to Boston this fall
WMUR 9 - New Hampshire
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July 11, 2025
The Tony Award-winning musical "Hamilton" is returning to Boston this fall. The show will run at the Citizens Bank Opera House from Sept. 23 to Nov. 2, 2025.This marks the third time Lin-Manuel Miranda's groundbreaking musical has come to the...
Popular women's sports bar expanding to Boston
NECN - Massachusetts
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For decades, women's sports have fought for a place in the spotlight. But a new sports bar coming to Boston is looking to change that. The Sports Bra, a bar where everyone will have a front-row seat to women's sports, is planning to move to...
Holyoke Art Partners with Art Pharmacy to Provide Mental Health Support
Health Care News
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July 10, 2025
HOLYOKE — Holyoke Art has officially joined Art Pharmacy, a groundbreaking arts and healthcare initiative designed to improve mental health and emotional well-being through non-clinical, creative experiences. As a new regional provider in this...
Listen to the Trump-Referencing Clipse Track Universal Music Allegedly Tried to Censor
Mother Jones
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July 11, 2025
The Clipse perform on stage during the BET Hip Hop Awards in 2022.Terence Rushin/Getty Images Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. After more than 15 years, fans of the...
Sports scoreboard for Wednesday, July 9, 2025
Lethbridge Herald
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July 10, 2025
By Canadian Press on July 9, 2025. Wednesday’s Scoreboard MLB American League Chicago White Sox 2 Toronto 1 Tampa Bay 7 Detroit 3 N.Y. Yankees 9 Seattle 6 Cleveland 4 Houston 2 L.A. Angels 11 Texas 8 National League Milwaukee 3 L.A. Dodgers 2 (10...
What you should know about UConn in EA Sports College Football 26 video game
Hartford Courant - Connecticut
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July 10, 2025
The UConn football team saw some significant turnover this offseason, and it didn’t exactly bode well with video game developers. UConn received a 71 overall rating in the new EA Sports College Football 26 video game, which was officially released...
Boston Consulting Group fires rogue employees who worked on Gaza ‘relocation’ plan
New York Post
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July 9, 2025
One of the world’s largest consulting firms has fired two rogue employees who defied a company prohibition and led a “small, off-the-books team” involved in crunching the numbers on the costs of relocating Palestinians from the Gaza Strip. Two...
'Caitlin Clark Didn’t Succumb to Some Media Pressure': NBA Analyst ‘Happy’ CC Didn’t Pick Angel Reese on Her All-Star Team
Yardbarker
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July 10, 2025
The rosters for the 2025 AT&T WNBA All-Star Game were officially revealed during a special edition of WNBA Countdown on ESPN. Captains Caitlin Clark of the Indiana Fever and Napheesa Collier of the Minnesota Lynx selected their teams from a pool...
Boston police investigating double stabbing outside KFC restaurant
Boston 25 News - Massachusetts
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July 9, 2025
BOSTON — Police are investigating a double stabbing outside a KFC restaurant in Boston on Wednesday morning. Officers responding to a report of a stabbing in the area of 685 Columbia Road in the city’s Dorchester neighborhood shortly after 6:30...
Massachusetts lawmakers look to ban cell phone use in schools
Western Mass News - Massachusetts
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July 10, 2025
WEST SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB/WSHM) - Governor Maura Healey is now calling for a bell-to-bell cellphone ban in public schools across the state. This recent announcement coincides with a bill introduced by the state’s attorney general earlier this...
Classical Music Playlist, July 10, 2025
Capradio - California
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Carl Off in 1940 | photo by Hans Holdt [public domain in the US - Wikipedia] "Carmina Burana" from 1936 by Carl Orff is a cantata with text based on 24 poems from a collection written in the 11th to 13th centuries titled "Carmina Burana." The...