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  • US Lawmakers Head to Russia Will Ask About Boston Bomber

    Brothers Tamerlan Tsarnaev, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are accused of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombing. Tamerlan was closely monitored while in Dagestan last ...

  • Senate hopeful Markey releases 8 years of tax returns

    During the period dating back to 2005, Markey reported earning a cumulative $1.2 million, mostly from his salary as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. The returns show Markey paid, on average, about 24 percent of his income in federal and state taxes. In 2012, Markey reported income of $161,443. He paid $32,399 in federal taxes and $7,333 in state taxes. Markey had been under ...

  • CapeFLYER officially launches summer weekend service from Boston

    According to the Cape Cod Times, about 1,110 passengers can fit on the CapeFLYER train that was scheduled to leave out of South Station at 5:12 p.m. Friday and arrive at the Hyannis Transportation Center by 7:50 ...

  • See This Is The End in Boston for Free June 10

    Ken Murray is a Greater Boston based writer/actor/filmmaker with an interest in photography. A movie reviewer with a strong emphasis on pop culture, he is experienced on both the East Coast and West Coast after spending three years in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley and doing the Hollywood ...

  • Boston Needs Inventory to Sell – Furnished Apartments Are A Nice Alternative

    If you’ve been following the residential real estate market here in Boston, you already know how difficult it is to find a property that’s available and still ‘on the market,’ beyond a few days of being listed. The idea that we were still in a ‘buyer’s market,’ disappeared months ago almost overnight. Real estate agents around the city have been ...


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The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) [DVD]

The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) [DVD]

Luchino Viscontis opulent historical epic The Leopard (Il Gattopardo) is, along with Jean-Luc Godards Contempt (1964) and Roman Polanskis Repulsion (1967), one of the great European-American art films of the 1960s. After the 1950s saw the increasing popularity of am ... ...

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  • 5 pairs of piping plovers nesting on NH shores

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire Fish and Game officials say five pairs of endangered piping plovers are nesting along the sandy shores of Hampton and ...

  • Maine governor switches TV message

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Gov. Paul LePage, who got in a tussle with legislative leaders for having a television running outside his office, is still staying away from his State House office in ...

  • RI Assembly OKs school volunteer background checks

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A proposal in Rhode Island to require all school volunteers to undergo a criminal background check is heading to Gov. Lincoln Chafee for his ...

  • RI to open 4 beaches for weekend use

    The state will open Scarborough North, Roger Wheeler, East Matunuck and Misquamicut state beaches from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. The freshwater beach at Lincoln Woods State Park will also open ...

  • Vt. to do national search for education secretary

    MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - A committee of Vermont State Board of Education has been set up to do a national search for a new education secretary. Armando Vilaseca, who was education commissioner, was appointed to the job for a year in January. Gov. Peter Shumlin had said that a national search would begin at midyear for someone to take the job on a more permanent basis. Vilaseca had said when he ...

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