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In this Jan. 19, 2016 photo, workers clear the site where a planned MGM casino is to be built in Springfield, Mass. The project endured a lengthy review by historic preservation authorities over the planned demolition of downtown buildings in the months after the March 24, 2015 groundbreaking. The casino is now slated to open September 2018, a year behind initial projections. (Dan Glaun/MassLive.com via AP)

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Springfield casino gears up for construction season

by Philip Marcelo Associated PressMarch 28, 2016

FILE - In this March 31, 2015 file photo, Muslim, Christian, minority and government leaders fix their eyes on a laptop screen showing a video as part of a federal pilot program called Countering Violent Extremism, at Roxbury Community College in Boston. Seated at center right is Carmen Ortiz, U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts. More than a year and a half after it was first announced, the federal effort in Boston, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis to combat extremist recruitment has been slow to start. Few local programs have been directly created by the Countering Violent Extremism" pilot initiative, with officials in those cities just starting to distribute more than 500,000 in Department of Justice grant money to jumpstart new local efforts. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, File)

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Cities’ efforts to combat extremism off to slow start

by Philip Marcelo Associated PressMarch 25, 2016

In this May 29, 2014, file photo, a figure of a Wampanoag Indian sits on a window frame in the tribal chairman's office at the community/government center in Mashpee, Mass. In 2016, the U.S. Department of the Interior created a reservation for the Mashpee Wampanoag tribe in two tracts totaling more than 300 acres on Cape Cod and in Taunton, Mass., after it became federally recognized in 2007. Nearly 400,000 acres have been placed into trust for Native American tribes since President Barack Obama took office, and approximately 233,000 acres were placed into trust during the prior tenure of President George W. Bush. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)

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Tribes steadily gaining reservation lands

by Philip Marcelo Associated PressMarch 21, 2016