News Headlines for Amesbury, Massachusetts

Massachusetts cigarette tax increases by $1 per pack to fund state health insurance law (News-Medical-Net)
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) on Tuesday signed into law a bill that increases the state cigarette tax by $1 per pack, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The increase, which brings the tax to $2.51, took effect immediately.

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Massachusetts Cigarette Tax Increases By $1 Per Pack To Fund State Health Insurance Law (Medical News Today)
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick (D) on Tuesday signed into law a bill that increases the state cigarette tax by $1 per pack, the AP/Boston Globe reports. The increase, which brings the tax to $2.51, took effect immediately. On Monday, the bill was approved by the state House and Senate by votes of 93-52 and 26-9, respectively.

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Massachusetts Lobstermen Promote Practices As Whale Safe (WCSH 6 Portland)
BOSTON (AP) -- Beginning this weekend, lobsters caught off the Massachusetts coast will have green rubber bands on their claws stamped with "Massachusetts" and whale tails.

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09:41 (BST), 04/07/2008 Play Hard Football Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS FOXBORO, Massachusetts – July 3, 2008 ... (gamesindustry.biz)
FOXBORO, Massachusetts – July 3, 2008 – Play Hard Sports, Inc., the first studio in North America to develop, publish and distribute interactive fantasy sports games and entertainment over the Internet, today announced the official sign up program for the company’s beta launch of its football game.

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Massachusetts: Be Green, It?s the Law (New York Times)
Massachusetts will invest in renewable energy and require utility companies to obtain energy from sources other than fossil fuels under a new measure.

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Massachusetts adds $1 to cigarette excise tax (Winston-Salem Journal)
The excise tax on a pack of cigarettes in Massachusetts will jump by $1 under a bill signed into law by Gov. Deval Patrick on Tuesday. The tax goes into effect immediately.

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Hedge fund scammer surrenders in Massachusetts (The Times and Democrat)
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A hedge fund swindler who set off a national manhunt when he faked his suicide to avoid reporting to prison rode his scooter to a small-town police station in Massachusetts on Wednesday and turned himself in while talking to his mother on his cell phone.

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Women donors especially generous to Massachusetts United Way (BizJournals)
The United Way Massachusetts Bay and Merrimack Valley is one of the top performing United Way chapters in its engagement of women donors and its overall donations to the Alexis de Tocqueville leadership society.

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Massachusetts Lobstermen Promote Practices As Whale Safe (KTHV Little Rock)
BOSTON - New green rubber bands that will bind the claws of Massachusetts lobsters beginning this weekend won't save the lobsters from the dinner table. But they signify a state initiative aimed at saving whales.

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Fugitive swindler surrenders in Massachusetts / Former hedge fund manager faked his suicide to disappear (San Francisco Chronicle)
A hedge fund swindler who set off a national manhunt when he faked his suicide to avoid reporting to prison surrendered Wednesday to small-town police in Massachusetts. U.S. marshals said his mother helped broker the surrender. Authorities suspect he had...

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