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Schools close, region preps for Sandy’s expected fury

Hurricane Sandy is expected to begin thrashing Massachusetts with winds gusting to 80 miles per hour by Monday afternoon.

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Mike MacLelland II and his father boarded up his winter rental cottage on Turner Road in Scituate Sunday.

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Hurricane Sandy was moving toward the northeast Sunday night with maximum sustained winds of 75 mph.

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Dirt Murray secured his houseboat in preparation for Hurricane Sandy in Gloucester on Sunday.

The Boston area is expected to get 1 to 2 inches of rain, and 1 to 3 inches could fall in Worcester and further west.

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Katie Held, of Cambridge, stocked up on candles and other supplies on Sunday.

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Workers on Sunday fortified the seawall at Oceanside Dr. in Scituate.

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Jerry McKay worked to secure a houseboat in Gloucester.

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Heavy surf flooded a road in Buxton, N.C.

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Turbulent waves didn’t deter one fisherman in Montauk, N.Y., on Sunday.

Two women braved the strong wind in Virginia Beach, Va.

Two women braved the strong winds in Virginia Beach, Va.

Molly White covered up at a beach in Frankford, Del.

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People took shelter in a high school gymnasium in Lewes, Del.

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The subway system in New York City was shut down on Sunday night.

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Con Edison workers placed sandbags to cover power vaults in New York.

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A business owner boarded up his shop in Alexandria, Va.

Residents of Atlantic City, N.J., waited at the convention center to be evacuated.

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People in Atlantic City, N.J., waited at the convention center to be evacuated.

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A woman tied lines on a dock in City Island, N.Y.

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The boards on this home in Margate, N.J., were repainted for the current storm threat.

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Utilities and state road workers monitored the situation Sunday in Kill Devil Hills, N.C.

States board up as Hurricane Sandy bears down

Big cities and small towns buttoned against the onslaught of a superstorm that could endanger 50 million people in the most heavily populated corridor in the nation.

Weather trips up Halloween revelers again

It’s trick-or-treating time, and for the second year in a row, Mother Nature has decided to go with “trick.”

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Despite win, Patriots still searching for identity

Sherlock Holmes would have a tough time figuring out this year’s Patriots, who reached the halfway mark at 5-3.

State wants pharmacist to resign as a regulator

The lead pharmacist of a sister company to the pharmacy at the center of the meningitis outbreak has been asked to resign from the state board that oversees pharmacies.

Mitt Romney spoke at a campaign event at the University of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio., as vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan and voters listened on.

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Late moderate turn carrying Mitt Romney far

The more moderate tone and style Romney adopted in the presidential election’s closing weeks have boosted his once-flagging campaign.

On jobs, Senate rivals reflect the two-party split

Senator Brown and Elizabeth Warren largely mirror the basic divide between the GOP and Democrats on the role of government in putting people back to work.

After heart surgery, Celtics’ Jeff Green in full stride

Green is silencing critics who thought the Celtics were foolish to sign him to a four-year, $36-million-dollar deal in August.

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“The Kitchen” an oil on canvas, painted by Picasso in 1948.

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Senator Scott Brown stopped, as he often does, for a photo, this time with a fan in Hyannis.

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