The Daily News of Newburyport

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Tanya Donahue, sales manager at Richard's Maytag, hopes to capitalize off today's sales tax-free day on goods under $2,500 in Massachusetts.
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Feds will take over septic truck driver's holdup case
SALEM -- A Peabody man who robbed a Newburyport bank, led police on a wild chase in a septic truck and was finally captured in a stolen camper the next morning will face federal charges, a prosecutor said yesterday.
Property owner vows to demo building unless city allows renovation
NEWBURYPORT - A local lawyer wants to make an apartment out of a historic building that housed the state's earliest mint, and if the city says he can't, he intends to tear it down.
Sports:
Olympics are now real
Now it's really starting to hit me. The draw came out for my weight class and I know who I will have to beat.
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