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David Lohr

Baby Found In Road Leads Massachusetts Police To Gruesome Crime Scene

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 05.15.2012

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A baby found in a car seat in the middle of a Massachusetts street recently led police to a grisly crime scene. The events leading up to the shocki...

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Charges Upheld Against Woman Accused Of Cutting Fetus From Pregnant Neighbor

AP | Posted 12.30.2011

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WORCESTER, Mass. -- A Massachusetts judge has denied a request to dismiss charges against a woman accused of killing a pregnant woman and cutting the ...

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Worcester Diocese Seeks To Have Priest Defrocked

AP | Posted 02.29.2012

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WORCESTER, Mass. — A Roman Catholic diocese in Massachusetts has asked the Vatican to defrock a priest who is facing charges of possessing child...

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First Nighter: The Great Barbara Carroll Even Greater at the Algonquin's Oak Room

David Finkle | Posted 11.19.2011

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David Finkle

In her mid-80s, Barbara Carroll's still doing what she does best and what few others even begin to do as well as. Nowadays she does it more regularly at the Oak Room, where management is wise enough to turn the paneled room over to her every Sunday brunch.

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It's Madness: the Incarceration of Disabled Homeless People in the US

Paul Boden | Posted 11.07.2011

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Paul Boden

The criminal justice system has displaced the mental health system as the main institution for dealing with poor people with psychiatric disabilities in the United States.

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Where Elites Fail

Craig K. Comstock | Posted 07.20.2011

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Craig K. Comstock

Elites in both corporations and government are often quite good at running systems they create, and bad at looking beyond these systems at larger social effects. This doubleness was on display at the Worcester Polytechnic commencement.

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Are College Presidents Encouraging Teen Drinking?

Lonna Saunders | Posted 06.18.2011

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Lonna Saunders

Why are some college presidents and chancellors (136 of them), appearing to encourage teen drinking by signing on to the "Amethyst Initiative" which s...

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