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GOOD MORNING, SUNDAY! It's the perfect time to catch up on some of the great reporting and stories the Mercury churned out this week! (PRO TIP: If you despise being "the last to know," then be one of the first to know by signing up for Mercury newsletters! All the latest stories shipped directly to your email's in-box... and then... YOUR HEAD.) • DA Mike Schmidt Concedes in Primary Election Marked by Big Spending, Progressive...

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In an interview conducted last spring, Portland musician Jeffrey Silverstein said that not only did he enjoy and appreciate the balance, structure and clarity provided by his day job as

On Plum Island scientists study some of the most infectious pathogens known to man. On the west side of the island, sealed behind decades-old metal doors and frozen inside tamper-proof containers, are vials of rinderpest and foot-and-mouth disease virus, two of the most feared animal contagions of all time.

About a mile off the tip of Long Island's North Fork, past a patch of rough sea and a long, sharp reef, there's a wild, sequestered place known as Plum Island. Some may have heard of it: It's been ru...