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  • mail trucksFinance

    Mail carriers reach deal with USPS for pay raises and air-conditioned trucks

    By David Sharp, Nick Perry, and others
  • A home sits on a freshly mowed lawn in Edgartown, Mass., Tuesday, June 4, 2024. High housing costs on Martha’s Vineyard are forcing many regular workers to leave and are threatening public safety. (AP Photo/Nick Perry)Personal Finance

    Martha’s Vineyard rentals have gotten so expensive a correctional officer switched to cleaning to earn less so she didn’t lose access to low-income housing

    By Nick Perry and The Associated Press
  • Geoff Rose, owner of Island Time in Vineyard HavenFinance

    Martha’s Vineyard is running out of pot because the state says transporting it across the ocean could be illegal. Now people are so angry they’re suing

    By Nick Perry and The Associated Press
  • In this photo provided by University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, is billionaire Robert Hale, right, with a graduate student onstage at the graduation ceremony Thursday, May 16, 2024, in Dartmouth, Mass. Hale gifted graduates at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth each with $1,000., with the condition that they give $500 away. Hale revealed the gift to more than 1,100 graduates. (Karl Christoff Dominey/University of Massachusetts Dartmouth via AP)Personal Finance

    Billionaire gives UMass graduates $1,000 each—but they have to give half of it away

    By Nick Perry and The Associated Press
  • A University of Southern California protester is detained by USC Department of Public Safety officers during a pro-Palestinian occupation at the campus’ Alumni Park on Wednesday, April 24, 2024 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Richard Vogel)Leadership

    USC cancels May graduation ceremony as colleges crack down on pro-Palestinian protests on campus

    By Steve LeBlanc, Nick Perry, and others
  • Protesters at Columbia UniversityPolitics

    Dozen of pro-Palestinian protesters arrested at Yale University after sweeping arrests at Columbia last week

    By Nick Perry, Michelle L. Price, and others
  • FILE – People pose for photos, March 12, 2019, in front of the iconic Tommy Trojan statue on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. As more than 2 million graduating high school students from across the United States finalize their decisions on what college to attend this fall, many are facing jaw-dropping costs — in some cases, as much as $95,000. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon, File)Personal Finance

    Some colleges will charge up to $95,000 this year but schools say it’s not a big deal because financial aid can ease the pain

    By Nick Perry and The Associated Press
  • Baltimore bridge collapseEnvironment

    Here’s who was really steering (or not) the 95,000-ton ship when it ploughed into the Key Bridge this week

    By Nick Perry and The Associated Press
  • Maine mass shootingRetail

    ‘We’re like Americana’: Bowling proprietors association waives fees, sends equipment and gift cards after Maine mass shooting

    By Nick Perry and The Associated Press
  • Pedestrians walk past the Shapiro Building at Brigham and Women's Hospital on Jan. 20, 2015, in Boston. Some women who spent months preparing for in vitro fertilization procedures have been left devastated after flooding from a burst water main at the hospital on Christmas Eve, Sunday, Dec. 24, 2023, disrupted services for about 200 IVF patients.Family

    Flooding at a Boston hospital has disrupted IVF services for 200 patients. Some are devastated

    By Nick Perry and The Associated Press
  • Tom DayEnvironment

    White Christmas looks extinct everywhere but Alaska: ‘I feel like December really no longer qualifies as a winter month’

    By Nick Perry and The Associated Press