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A state employee from Weymouth has been charged with possessing child pornography.

Christopher Senior is scheduled to arrive at town hall Monday morning to begin his new job as town manager after agreeing to a three-year contract with the town.

While Massachusetts Republicans managed to field three U.S. Senate candidates in last year’s special election, they’ve not yet rolled out much in terms of contenders for statewide offices this year other than the GOP ticket of Charlie Baker and Karyn Polito running for the Corner Office.

Dennis Rodman apologized this morning for making much-criticized comments earlier this week about Kenneth Bae, who has been held captive in North Korea since last year and has been sentenced to 15 years of hard labor. Rodman said he had been drinking during the interview from North Korea, where he led a team to play basketball for the birthday of Kim Jong Un. 

Facing growing concerns over operations at the Department of Children and Families, the Patrick administration plans to hire the Child Welfare League of America to independently review the agency over the coming months, the News Service has learned.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will soon downgrade the Pilgrim nuclear power station’s performance, placing the 685-megawatt plant on a list with seven others deemed as degraded.

Every morning, Carol Lipson searches for a job and hopes for news that Congress has voted to extend federal unemployment benefits, a safety net that she and other long-term unemployed workers had been using to make ends meet until the benefits lapsed last month. So far, she’s had no luck with either.

Eileen and John Byrne raised their family as they grew their Buckles & Boards business in Marshfield.

Campanelli, a commercial real estate development and acquisition company, has sold its 118,000-square-foot office building at 300 Crown Colony Drive in Quincy to Grander Capital Partners LLC for $15.9 million.Grander Capital Partners is a commercial real estate investment and management company based in Boston.

Christopher Senior is scheduled to arrive at town hall Monday morning to begin his new job as the permanent  Cohasset town manager after agreeing to a three-year contract with the town.