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This could be perhaps the most bizarre application of James Carville's worn out expression, "It's the economy stupid." "CBS Evening News" linked the economy to the famed pregnancy pact that has received national attention. The June 19 broadcast of "Evening News" faulted the ailing economy for 17 Massachusetts high school students agreeing to get pregnant intentionally around the same time so they could raise children together. According to Gloucester Public Schools Superintendent Christopher Farmer, the girls did it to gain status. CBS correspondent Michelle Miller took it a step further and made an economic connection.

GLOUCESTER Gloucester County's sheriff and several deputies helped pull a Newport News man out of the York River on Monday before arresting him in connection with a lunchtime bank robbery on U.S. 17. Mario Anthony Orlikoff was arrested shortly after noon by Sheriff Robin P. Stanaway and several deputies, according to information released by the Gloucester County Sheriff's Office. He is a former assistant sports editor of the Daily Press.Employees of Chesapeake Bank in the Wicomico community called police at about 12:15 p.m. to report a robbery. The callers said the robber handed a teller a note demanding money. The...

GLOUCESTER, Mass.— A mother and her boyfriend were charged with child rape on Friday for photographing the man having sex with the woman's 8-year-old daughter, and posting the images on the Internet. Kendra D'Andrea, 29, was arrested Friday morning and arraigned in Gloucester District Court on charges of rape of a child, posing a child in the nude, distributing obscene material, and possession of child pornography, according to Steve O'Connell, spokesman for Essex County District Attorney Jonathan W. Blodgett.

This weekend is the twelfth anniversary of the disappearance of the 70-foot, longline swordfish boat, the Andrea Gail, which went down in the last days of October or the first days of November. For the past week, I’ve been watching a rented VCR of The Perfect Storm, the movie version of that disaster, based on Sebastian Junger’s 1997 novel of the same name. Before the movie even begins, you know it’s going to be special. As the Warner Brothers logos appear in turn, and we are told that this is based on a true story, we hear the slow, pensive...