WORCESTER — Mayor Joseph M. Petty has won a seventh term, easily topping a five-way field and winning an unprecedented seventh term. Petty, 63, came out well ahead of his nearest competitor ...

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Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple have given experts more clues about the ancient metropolis of Eridu.