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Man charged with threatening to blow up dictionary company, others in repeated LGBTQ tirades

By adamg - 4/23/22 - 9:24 pm

Wonkette sums up the case against Jeremy Hanson, a Californian who posted threats to blow up Springfield-based Merriam-Webster over the way it defined several gender-related words, including "girl." Read more.

Some blackjack players bet they could increase their winnings by suing casinos; they lost

By adamg - 6/23/21 - 11:21 am

Kenny Rogers - The Gambler

The Supreme Judicial Court ruled today that blackjack players who won at the cheap tables at the Encore and MGM Springfield casinos, then sued to get the higher winnings they would have gotten at higher-stakes tables, should have quit while they were ahead. Read more.

Springfield hospitals tried hiding a much needed mask shipment in trucks made to look like they were carrying food; then the FBI showed up

By adamg - 4/18/20 - 9:27 pm

Dr. Andrew Artenstein, chief physician executive at Baystate Health - which runs four hospitals in the Springfield area - describes the lengths he and his staff had to go to to secure some much needed respirator masks recently, in a a letter to the New England Journal of Medcine posted yesterday. Read more.

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