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FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — For more than a decade, Matthew Slater was universally celebrated as being the emotional centerpiece of the New England Patriots’ locker room, building a resume as one of the league’s most-decorated special teams players. After 16 NFL seasons, he says it’s time to call it a career. Slater announced his retirement on Tuesday in a letter posted on the team’s website and

A colossal, beloved 150-year-old banyan tree at the centre of Lahaina town that was scorched when deadly wildfires ravaged Maui, Hawaii, last month is showing viridescent signs of new growth. The tree, which has been described as the “heartbeat of Lahaina Town” was badly singed, but still standing last month after fires killed at least 97 people and reduced much of the historic town to ash.

JERSEY CITY, NJ — A seven-alarm brush fire near the Jersey City/Bayonne border has reached a paper recycling plant and closed all lanes of the New Jersey Turnpike near Exit 14B, authorities said. The exit is about seven miles south of the Holland Tunnel. The fire also has shut three Bergen-Hudson Light Rail stops in Jersey City. The brush fire began around 2 p.m. and spread across the Hudson-

BALTIMORE -- Friday, former Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby will be back in federal court. A judge will hear arguments on the motion to acquit her in the mortgage fraud case against her. The hearing is set to start this morning at 10:30 at the District Court in Greenbelt. In the motion, Marilyn Mosby's public defender is primarily arguing that the government failed to prove that