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Even though the song is written about him, it’s not about him, said Paul Monti.

A 19-year-old Norwood man will face charges in connection with a hit-and-run crash that claimed the life of a Canton woman Thursday.

Two rifles stolen from an FBI vehicle parked outside an agent’s Andover home have been recovered.

And the newest members of the National Toy Hall of Fame are … the rubber duck and chess. The two were named as this year’s inductees. Last year Star Wars action figures and dominoes made the hall, which is based in Rochester, N.Y.

U.S. employers added 204,000 jobs in October, an unexpected burst of hiring during a month in which the federal government was partially shut down for 16 days.

Longtime City Clerk Joseph P. Shea described voter turnout in Quincy’s election Tuesday as “bordering on anemic” with just 17 percent of the city’s 63,621 registered voters casting a ballot.

An offer from a well-meaning nun prompted Hull school officials to send out an alert to parents on Thursday about a “stranger incident.”

The Home Depot on Willard Street was barely open two hours Thursday when one of the store’s workers phoned 911. “I have an associate bleeding to death at my store right now,” a short-of-breath male employee said to the dispatcher. “I need police and ambulance now.”

At the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, they call Claire Zampine Muollo the Purple Lady. Zampine Muollo, a Quincy resident who has received treatment at the hospital since being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer more than four years ago, earned her title by organizing the annual Promises for Purple Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Walk, which is now going into its third year.