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Frank Schaefer gets to keep calling himself a Methodist pastor - at least for the next 30 days.

Among treasured memorabilia from my years of working in the airline world is a copy of ‘The Berlin Observer,’ November 1963, with the bold headline: ‘West Berlin in Mourning, Thousands Pay Homage.’ A front page editorial states that ‘many Americans here in the Divided City feel that the grief of the people of West Berlin may very well be unequaled anywhere outside the United States.’ To Berliners, JFK was not only a symbol of their freedom, he was regarded as a friend.

The governor was expected to visit Brockton today to announce initiatives including plans for a $27.4 million Allied Health and Science Building at Massasoit Community College and a $4 million project to redesign City Hall Plaza.

An early morning van fire outside of a childcare facility sent plumes of black smoke over Braintree that could be seen for miles.

Two former Plymouth County prosecutors say they were pressured by their superiors to give money to the re-election campaign of District Attorney Timothy Cruz and were threatened when they refused.

The Massachusetts Senate has voted to raise the state’s minimum wage from $8 to $11 per hour by 2016 and tie subsequent increases to inflation.

A lawyer for an Irish nanny charged in the death of a baby girl asked a Massachusetts judge Tuesday to order prosecutors to provide more information on how the child died. Aisling Brady McCarthy of Quincy is charged with murder in the January death of Rehma Sabir.

The Thomas Crane Public Library in Quincy will host an event to examine the assassination of President John F. Kennedy at 7 p.m. Thursday.

Twining Properties, the newest player in the $1.6 billion downtown redevelopment project, has pledged to get the landmark project back on track after construction stalled last month for financial reasons.

Fifty years later, I remember that surreal November Friday afternoon in vivid black-and-white detail. I was a 16-year-old suburban kid attending an urban, working-class Catholic high school deep in Boston’s then-gritty South End when I got the news.