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WAREHAM — One Massachusetts man says his car saved his home from a fallen tree during the nor'easter that battered the east coast over the weekend.Glenn Sharpe tells WBZ-TV a large pine fell on a Jeep parked in his driveway in East Wareham Friday night. The Jeep stopped the tree from crashing into Sharpe's home where his mom and sister were sleeping.Sharpe's mother says "if that wasn't there, I wouldn't be here."

A dark fairy tale about strange love prevailed at the 90th Academy Awards last night, offering a glimmer of hope to an industry and a country in troubled times.“The Creature from the Love Lagoon” aka “The Shape of Water,” was named best picture of the year. The film also won the coveted best director award, as well as score and production design wins.

More than 100,000 remained without power last night as coastal communities throughout the Bay State began the arduous task of cleaning up from the nor’easter that pounded Massachusetts for two days.More than two dozen schools throughout the state canceled classes for today.The MBTA said because of the storm, commuters on the Greenbush, Kingston and Newburyport/Rockport lines should plan on 15 to 20 minutes of potential delays.

Three masked bandits robbed a convenience store at gunpoint Saturday while its owners were frantically moving frozen items to a different store because it had lost power in the nor’easter, East Bridgewater police said.East Bridgewater police Chief Scott Allen said the thieves hit the One Stop Convenience Store on Plymouth Street shortly after 5 p.m. while the “owners were on hand trying to save their inventory from spoiling” during the “historic March nor’easter.”

When 29-year-old Robin O’Neill envisioned her wedding day she saw her big brother Vannarin there along with all her family members.What she didn’t imagine was that it would be in a hospital, and certainly not being as lavish as the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute made it out to be yesterday afternoon for her and groom Sean, 34.

Every day at the Brickett School in Lynn was a nightmare for then 11-year-old Matthew Mumbauer, who said he was ruthlessly tormented by bullies a decade ago before one ultimately landed him in a wheelchair for the rest of his life.“I hated every moment of it,” said Mumbauer, now 21. “There were points where I didn’t want to go to school, but I had to go school.”

A Lynn man who was paralyzed after a school bully pushed him down the stairs 10 years ago is vowing to take on Beacon Hill after the state Supreme Judicial Court ruled city government cannot be liable for his injuries.“Yes, this looks bad, being in a wheelchair. But if my case could help some kid later on, then that could be the positive aspect of this whole thing,” Matthew Mumbauer, now 21, told the Herald. “Even if I don’t ever meet the person that is helped, as long as it helps someone, then I’m at ease.”

Neighbors in West Brookfield gathered in the small central Massachusetts town’s center yesterday to comfort each other in the aftermath of unspeakable tragedy — the unsolved killings of a mother and three children that has left townspeople both devastated and fearful.Slain family members Sara Bermudez, 38, and her children, Madison Bermudez, 8, James Bermudez, 6, and Michael Bermudez, 2, were honored yesterday at a vigil at the town’s First Congregational Church.

The distraught mother of a woman struck and killed Saturday outside a Dartmouth motel tearfully appealed last night to the hit-and-run driver who took her daughter’s life to surrender to police.“She was a very beautiful person inside and out. Nobody deserves to be left on the side of the road to die. It wasn’t an animal that they hit. She could have possibly lived if they’d stopped,” Rhonda Jean Kozak of Westport said of her daughter Stasha Lynn Faria, 33, the mother of a 6-year-old girl.

The region was expected to see a dusting of snow overnight, while another nor’easter is anticipated for Wednesday into early Thursday that could bring more snow or rainfall onto Boston’s shores.Snowfall was expected between 1 a.m. and 4 a.m. with a total nighttime accumulation of less than one inch, according to the National Weather Service website. Tomorrow’s weather is supposed to be dry with highs in the low 40s.