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  • Putin refutes allegation he stole Super Bowl ring Putin refutes allegation he stole Super Bowl ring

    MOSCOW - Robert K. Kraft, an American business magnate and New England Patriots football team owner, has alleged that Vladimir Putin took away his Super Bowl ring in 2005, an accusation that has sparked a minor international controversy The Russian president however denied the allegation about the diamond-encrusted sporting prize that he says was gifted to him by the football team ...

  • Parents charged after children absent from school

    Police charged 45-year-old John Moffett (one count), 42-year-old Dana Huntress (four counts), 48-year-old Carol Ludlow (one count), 41-year-old Michelle Palmquist (two counts), 44-year-old Leslie Leary (one count) and 33-year-old Christine Georgiou (one count) with compulsory ...

  • Woman scammed out of $550 for bogus Stanley Cup tix

    The puck flies into the net as Chicago Blackhawks center Andrew Shaw (65) scores the game winning goal against Boston Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask (40) during the third overtime period of Game 1 in their NHL Stanley Cup Final hockey series, Wednesday, June 12, 2013, in Chicago. The Blackhawks won ...

  • Wharnsby Daniel Paille a favourite of Bruins teammates

    Boston Bruins forward Daniel Paille has always been about the team, but he certainly has drawn attention to himself in the past few days for his goal-scoring prowess in the Stanley Cup ...

  • Bostons One Fund nears $55M with more than 250 claims

    One Fund Boston administrator Kenneth R. Feinberg leads a town hall meeting held to discuss how victims of the Boston Marathon bombing will be compensated on May 7, 2013, at the Boston Public ...


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Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope (Special Edition)

Star Wars: Episode IV—A New Hope (Special Edition)

It's hard to assess just how much impact "Star Wars" has had on American popular culture. When it was re-released in January 1997, it became the highest domestic box office earner of all time, surpassing both "Jurassic Park" and the previous champion, "E.T." Yet, to look at its profit margins alone is to miss the big picture. "Star Wars" is so much more than a movie -- it's a piece of the American ... ...

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  • Hoops stars Maine Hall of Fame induction revoked

    BANGOR, Maine (AP) - The Maine Sports Hall of Fame has revoked the induction of a former college basketball star following his conviction on a child pornography ...

  • Providence councilor wants Birch oversight review

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - A Providence councilman wants a city review of how a vocational school could have violated the civil rights of the developmentally disabled for years by unnecessarily segregating them in a ‘‘sheltered workshop’’ where they were paid little or no wages for manual ...

  • Personal banker sentenced to two years in prison for stealing more than $100000 from elderly man

    A former personal banker has been sentenced to two years in prison and ordered to pay full restitution after stealing more than $100,000 from an elderly man and concealing her income to receive rent subsidies, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said. Before her indictment in January, Eden Cato, 29, used her position as a personal banker at a Bank of America to issue herself a ...

  • No contest plea to 2011 murder from Hopkinton man

    SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) - A Hopkinton man has pleaded no contest to second-degree murder in a deal reached with prosecutors on the first day of jury selection in his ...

  • YMCA and Boston police plan hot dog cookouts to help stem wave of violence in city

    In an attempt to connect with a Roxbury community already stung by a summer surge in violence, Boston police officers will join YMCA staff Friday for the first in a series of hot dog cookouts they hope will attract the neighborhood's young adults, the YMCA said today. The weekly cookout, from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. every Friday at the Roxbury YMCA branch at 285 Martin Luther King Blvd., is part ...

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