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Another day on the job

Bob Collins December 1, 2008, 9:09 AM Dec 1, 2008

You think you’re having a rough Monday? Outside of Boston, a backhoe operator went to work today thinking it would be just another day on the job, right up until the part where he demolished a house by accident. Says a local TV report: Residents of a home on Winthrop Street in Stoneham were lucky Read more →

The hardest working person in the news business

Bob Collins November 30, 2008, 9:58 AM Nov 30, 2008

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It’s not who you think.

Business is picking up for last of the diaper services

Bob Collins August 12, 2008, 1:51 PM Aug 12, 2008

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A Minneapolis diaper service closes its doors, but there’s one more with a mission bigger than clean diapers.

Rollin’ back

Bob Collins May 19, 2008, 7:20 AM May 19, 2008

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It’s not your parents’ roller derby, the new roller derby folks say. But it looks like it.

The bearers of bad news

Bob Collins April 9, 2008, 3:25 PM Apr 9, 2008

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What’s it like to be the person who tells someone their loved one is dead?

On the road with the Glascocks

Bob Collins April 4, 2008, 1:19 PM Apr 4, 2008

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Think it’s tough paying another 20 cents a gallon for gasoline this week? Be glad you’re not a trucker.