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A caller posing as a representative for the Hingham Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program has been calling Hingham residents asking for money, according to police.

The state Division of Fish and Wildlife reports an unusually high number of snowy owls wintering this year in Massachusetts. Most of the owls have been reported in coastal areas, where the dunes and grasslands match the Artic tundra where the birds breed. They have been spotted on beaches and in conservation areas on the South Shore and Cape Cod.

It’s an annual tradition: During the holidays, I catch up with a few of the older people I've written about who I haven’t talked to in quite a while. How are they doing?

Weymouth firefighters will gather along Route 18 on Tuesday morning to show their support as the body of Marine Sgt. Daniel Vasselian is escorted to his home in Abington.

As we close out 2013 and usher in 2014, we’ll take time this column to thank one of the car industry’s most talented and legendary individuals, Andy Granatelli. Granatelli, who is best known for his wins at the Indy 500 and his beloved STP brand of oil treatment, died of heart failure Dec. 29 at the age of 90.

Lately, the news has been full of stories about "automatic cars." Supposedly, these are the cars of the not-so-distant future. 

The last month has been a very interesting month of driving the not-so-usual vehicles.

Weekly auto rail, with a look at diesel cars, Q&A with Junior Damato and more. 

If you’re like us, you planned to spend the last year keeping up with all the latest developments in news, politics, entertainment, sports, technology and life in general. But if you didn't, don’t worry -- we’ve encapsulated everything you missed right here, so you can pretend you were paying attention the whole time. Pretending to pay attention is in.

 Last week we got a chance to release an adorable deer mouse near NEWC.