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By 2020, Massachusetts’ public universities are projected to produce 73,000 fewer graduates with degrees in health care, business and finance, and science and math-related fields than will be needed to fill good-paying, in-demand jobs, according to a new report by the state Department of Higher Education.

By 2020, Massachusetts’ public universities are projected to produce 73,000 fewer graduates with degrees in health care, business and finance, and science and math-related fields than will be needed to fill good-paying, in-demand jobs, according to a new report by the state Department of Higher Education.

Despite the brutal winds, subzero temperatures and rapid snowfall, most South Shore residents took the week’s two-day snowstorm in stride. Even as high tides flooded seaside homes and closed coastal roads midday Friday, many people were out watching crashing waves, cheerfully shoveling out driveways and checking in with neighbors.

Two people may have been spared from a house fire that broke out in their Halifax home on New Year’s Day, but seven dogs were found dead in the basement of the home.

News on Paul Walker and the other winner of the huge Mega Millions jackpot.

Suspect sought by Stoughton police in armed home invasion turns himself in.

A Rockland man was hospitalized Friday after he injured his hand with a snowblower, but hospitals say muscle strains and heart palpitations are more frequent after storms.

Here are the snowfall totals for southeastern Massachusetts as of Friday morning from the storm that began Wednesday.

Army Capt. Kevin Ryan, 29, of Randolph has been awarded the Lt. Gen. Sidney T. Weinstein Award for Excellence in Military Intelligence.