Be wary of door-to-door paving contractors with Irish or British accents and insipid company names, police say

Boston Police report home-owning seniors are being targeted by larcenous alleged paving contractors who use pressure tactics to try to sign them up for what seem like cheap paving or masonry jobs that turn into expensive money-pit operations. Police say they’re trying to get a handle on Irishmen and Brits here on tourist visas who…

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Yoán Moncada aims for a healthy 2024 after back issues led to 2 IL trips last season for Chicago White Sox 3B – Boston Herald

Yoán Moncada pulled a double into the right-field corner during the second inning of an April 2 game against the Houston Astros last season at Minute Maid Park. The Chicago White Sox third baseman doubled again — this time pulling a grounder that just stayed fair down the first-base line — in the sixth inning….

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Biden renueva orden ejecutiva que declara a Venezuela como “una amenaza inusual y extraordinaria” para EEUU

Lapatilla marzo 05 2024, 7:27 pm Cortesía   El presidente Joe Biden renovó este martes, por un año más, la orden ejecutiva emitida por Barack Obama en 2015 que declara al régimen de Nicolás Maduro como “una amenaza inusual y extraordinaria” para la seguridad de Estados Unidos. Por: Monitoreamos La información que necesitas para comenzar…

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Florida’s ‘Stop WOKE Act’ commits a ‘First Amendment sin,’ appeals court says in ruling that blocks part of the bill

Miami Herald/Tribune News Service/Getty Images Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed HB 7, known as the “Stop WOKE Act,” in April 2022. CNN  —  A federal appeals court upheld a lower court’s ruling that part of Florida’s anti-“woke” law infringes on the free speech rights of employers. “The government cannot favor some viewpoints over others without…

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Early exit polls: Most North Carolina and Virginia GOP primary voters would consider Trump fit for presidency if convicted

CNN  —  Nearly two-thirds of North Carolina primary voters say that they’d consider former President Donald Trump fit for the presidency if he’s convicted of a crime, according to the initial results of CNN’s exit poll of Republican primary voters in the state, with slightly over half of GOP primary voters in Virginia saying the…

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MIAA Football Committee meeting – Boston Herald

Several members of the MIAA Football Committee confirmed meeting with the Tournament Management Committee a week ago regarding the new statewide playoff proposal. How much progress was made in swaying the TMC is a matter of opinion. At Tuesday’s regularly-scheduled committee meeting, football chairman Jay Costa felt a three-hour meeting resulted in some healthy dialogue,…

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Liberty University fined $14 million for campus safety violations : NPR

Students walk across Liberty University’s campus in Lynchburg, Va. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AFP/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AFP/Getty Images Students walk across Liberty University’s campus in Lynchburg, Va. Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AFP/Getty Images The U.S. Department of Education is fining Liberty University $14 million, the largest penalty on record, for failing to comply with a federal campus…

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