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Siblings R.C. Brown, left, Annie Brown Caldwell, center, and Edward Brown, original members of the Staple Jr. Singers, gather for a group photograph in their home church of Johnson Chapel Holiness Church in Aberdeen, Miss., May 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)

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Gospel group, basking in resurgence, releases first new music in nearly 50 years
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Thu,06/13/24-9:13AM , 136 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — She made a single gospel soul record in the 1970s with her brothers, when they were all teenagers. Then Annie Brown Caldwell moved on with her life.
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A delivery driver on a scooter rides the pedestrian crosswalk through traffic on a delivery in the Seaport District, Friday, June 7, 2024, in Boston. A soaring demand for food delivered fast has spawned small armies of couriers in a growing number of cities where delivery scooters, motorcycles and mopeds zip in and out of traffic and hop onto sidewalks alongside startled pedestrians racing to drop off salads and sandwiches. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)

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Demand for food delivery has skyrocketed. So have complaints about some drivers
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Fri,06/07/24-11:09PM , 108 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — A soaring demand for food delivered fast has spawned small armies of couriers — and increasing alarm — in big cities where scooters, motorcycles and mopeds zip in and out of traffic and hop onto pedestrian-filled sidewalks as their drivers race to drop off salads and sandwiches.
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The remnants of East Beach Road are damaged after heavy overnight winds and surf battered the coastline, Wednesday, Jan. 10, 2024 in Westport, Mass. Salisbury, Mass., is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away mountains of sand trucked in for nearly $600,000 dune that was meant to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure. The community and other areas of Massachusetts also were hit by severe storms in January, including flooding, erosion, and infrastructure damage. (Peter Pereira/The Standard-Times via AP)

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A Massachusetts town spent $600K on shore protection. A winter storm washed it away days later
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Wed,03/13/24-12:17PM , 66 Reads
BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts beach community is scrambling after a weekend storm washed away $600,000 in sand that was trucked in to protect homes, roads and other infrastructure.
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The campus of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine is seen, Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, in the Bronx borough of New York. The medical school will be tuition-free for all students from now on thanks to a $1 billion donation from former professor Ruth Gottesman, the widow of a Wall Street investor. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

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$1B donation makes New York medical school tuition free and transforms students' lives
By MICHAEL CASEY - Associated Press
Tue,02/27/24-5:41PM , 78 Reads
First year student Samuel Woo had been considering a career in cardiology so he would be able to pay off his medical school debt until the announcement this week of a generous donation that will remove tuition fees at his New York City school.
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