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WASHINGTON — Hillary Rodham Clinton survived yet another day.

WAREHAM — The School Committee is taking its next step in the search for a new superintendent to replace Dr. James Collins, who will retire in October.

NEW BEDFORD — The proposed $7 million renovation of the Ingraham School building into affordable housing may be down, but it is not out.

Help wanted for town's Swan FestivalWAREHAM — The Wareham Village Association is looking for volunteers for the 12th annual Swan Festival, scheduled for July 12.

PHILADELPHIA — Hillary Rodham Clinton ground out a gritty victory in the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday night, defeating Barack Obama and staving off elimination in their historic race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

NEW BEDFORD — Charles Mattos, aged 80 years, died Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at Brandon Woods of New Bedford. He was the husband of the late Edna (Figueiredo) Mattos of New Bedford.

DEDHAM, MA — Rolande (Laurendeau) Meny, 89, of Dedham and formerly of New Bedford, died Monday, April 21, 2008, at the Highgate Manor, after a long illness. She was the widow of Normand Meny and daughter of the late Ernest and Odila (Trahan)...

NORTH CAROLINA — Daniel M. Oliveira, 41, formerly of New Bedford died unexpectedly Thursday, April 17, 2008, at High Point Medical in North Carolina.

DRESDEN, MAINE — Chelsea Ann Ponte, 15, of Westport, died Sunday, April 20, 2008, in Dresden, Maine. She was the beloved daughter of Wendy Ann (Orr) Ponte of Westport and Dan R. Ponte of Westport.

NEW BEDFORD — Francis "Frank" Rymut, 65, of New Bedford, died Friday, April 18, 2008, at St. Luke's Hospital, after a long illness. He was the husband of Mary Jane (Almanza) Rymut, married 49 years; and son of the late Frank and Stella (Witkos)...

Allen: of Falmouth, Sunday, April 20, 2008, Beverly (Payson), 84. Daughter of the late Fred E. and Lilleous A. (Hills) Payson. Private services are by the POTTER FUNERAL HOME, 81 Reed Road, Westport.

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In the Sunday, April 20, story, "The Pork Pies Cometh," the price of Hartley's pork pies was incorrectly stated. The price is $2.25 per pie.

WAREHAM — The town is looking to fill two positions after the library director retired and the senior services director submitted her resignation last week.

FREETOWN — The recount date and location for the selectmen's race has been confirmed for 7 p.m. April 29 at Freetown Elementary School.

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration sought to bolster its signature education law Tuesday, announcing new rules designed to address the nation's dropout problem and ensure close attention is paid to the achievement of minority students.

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FALL RIVER — A Fall River man has been convicted in the February 2006 triple-shooting outside the Plymouth Avenue McDonald's restaurant in Fall River.

DARTMOUTH — "Courage," a nationwide Catholic support group for people dealing with same-sex attraction and wanting to live in chastity, will have its founder visiting SouthCoast later this month.

Armed with portable power saws, thieves are stealing emission control devices from vehicles on the streets and in car lots with the promise of a lucrative payoff from scrap yards.

FAIRHAVEN — The Fairhaven wind project is one step closer to the finish line after being approved by the Conservation Commission Tuesday night, but it still needs to get past the Planning Board.

DARTMOUTH — Call it coincidence or irony, but crude oil prices hit a record high of almost $120 a barrel on Earth Day 2008 and an expert on fossil fuels and energy came to SouthCoast to proclaim "the party is over."

WESTPORT — As friends and family mourn the death of Robert J. Kowalczyk, school and town officials must decide on filling a vacancy on the School Committee.

Three teens hurt

WAREHAM — The Wareham Free Library was chosen as a member of an Outreach Network, a statewide effort led by the Boston-based Health Care

School lilac bush

Cemetery corporation to hold annual meeting

Town seeks to fill committee vacancy

Seaside, The Standard-Times' guide to summer, will be published June 1.

City wins funding for foreclosure prevention

The Coalition for Buzzards Bay held its 20th annual meeting on April 3 in Bourne, electing two new Board members and presenting this year's Bay Guardian Awards and Volunteer Appreciation Award.

WASHINGTON — Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., contacted his supporters the other day to complain about shady practices by firms that issue credit cards.

LOS ANGELES — Suzanne Kreuziger is a registered nurse who uses e-mail almost exclusively to communicate with friends. But when it comes to reaching her doctor, there's a frustrating firewall.

BRIDGEWATER, Vt. — Long-Trail Brewing Co. on Tuesday signed a contract to become the largest commercial customer of Cow Power, a program that produces electricity from cow manure.

NEW YORK — Wall Street pulled back Tuesday, with the Dow Jones industrials tumbling more than 100 points as a rush of quarterly results from bellwethers like AT&T Inc., DuPont and McDonald's Corp. failed to impress investors. Oil prices also...

NEW YORK — Gas and oil prices pushed further into record high territory Tuesday, with retail gas reaching a national average of $3.51 for the first time and crude nearing $120 as the dollar fell to a new low against the euro.

WASHINGTON — Sales of existing homes fell in March, the seventh drop in the past eight months, as the spring sales season got off to a rocky start.

Dollar slumps to record low versus euro

Murdoch moves closer to buying Newsday

Yahoo profit rises

Bill filed to lower

NEW BEDFORD — The Whaling City Seafood Display Auction handled 139,231 pounds of seafood yesterday.

Gas prices in the Bay State jumped to an all-time high after a spike in crude oil prices sent the average price of regular unleaded to $3.389, 19 cents more than last week.

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration, pledging a "strong and continued commitment" to safeguarding national security, issued 90 pages of regulations Monday to implement a new law tightening security reviews of foreign investments.

NEW YORK — Wall Street had a mixed performance Monday as investors regained a cautious stance after disappointing news from Bank of America Corp. and Midwest bank National City Corp., and after another record-breaking tear in oil prices.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — If the 77 percent drop in Bank of America's first-quarter earnings is any indication, the economy may have a long way to go before it works out the problems that began with the subprime mortgage crisis.

Many people might have played hooky on a day like last Thursday. For local political activist "MarDee" Xifaras, no spring day is more beautiful than a Barack Obama campaign office in Philadelphia.

BOSTON — Dustin Pedroia's tiebreaking RBI double in the eighth inning helped the Boston Red Sox rally for their sixth straight win, 7-6 over the Los Angeles Angels on Tuesday night after ace Josh Beckett was scratched from his start with a stiff...

BOSTON — Two of Boston's leading hitters got the holiday off.

The search for the perfect tight end continues.