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  • Chris Kreider Overtime Goal Keeps Rangers Alive Cuts Bruins Lead To 3-1

    Chris Kreider #20 of the New York Rangers celebrates after he scored the game-winning goal in overtime against goalie Tuukka Rask #40 of the Boston Bruins to give the Rangers a 4-3 win in Game Four of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden on May 23, 2013 in New York ...

  • Senate votes to establish Cellucci ALS Registry

    BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Senate has voted to establish a Department of Public Health ALS registry named after former Gov. Paul ...

  • Bruins bad in big way

    NEW YORK - The only way the Rangers were going to avoid being swept last night was if the Bruins fell down on the job.And did they ever - literally, figuratively, every way.What was your lowlight from last night? Was it Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask tripping on the ice as a dribbler slid Buckner-esque by him and into the net? Was it Zdeno Chara allowing the Rangers’ Derek Stepan to sneak ...

  • Time in Boston Short but sweet to Mike Aviles

    Mike Aviles’ career with the Red Sox probably won’t go down in the annals of team history.But as Aviles was slipping on his Cleveland uniform for his first game back at Fenway Park last night before the Red Sox and Indians played the opener of a four-game set, he reminisced about his feelings when his run with Sox was done. His time with the Red Sox was short - a year and a half - ...

  • State Senate passes $33.9 billion budget

    The state Senate voted 36 to 3 Thursday night to approve a $33.99 billlion budget for fiscal 2014, adding $68.4 million in spending to the plan over the course of two days of ...


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Movie Review

Bull Durham [Blu-Ray]

Bull Durham [Blu-Ray]

Ron Sheltons Bull Durham is the rare sports movie that understands the appeal of sports, but never feels the need to boil everything down to a big game. There are discussions of winning and losing in the film--many of them, in fact--but they are treated like most things in life, wh ... ...

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  • Rask Chara And Co. Didn’t Deserve Game 4 Win And Other Leftover Bruins Thoughts

    BOSTON (CBS) — Sure, the Bruins very nearly pulled off a Game 4 victory, but did they really deserve it? They literally handed a goal to a dead, desperate team in front of a listless home crowd to completely change the environment late in the second period. The Bruins had just taken a 2-0 lead, and tweets about the Rangers’ summer plans immediately began to fill the Internet void. ...

  • Friend implicated Boston bomber in 2011 triple murder before being shot dead by FBI

    File photo of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. An alleged friend of Tsarnaev, Ibragim Todashev, was shot and killed by police early Wednesday when he became violent during questioning by the ...

  • Fugitive rapist to spend up to 40 years in prison

    A man who fled and lived a secret life in Maine after being convicted of raping three South Shore teenagers in 1978 will spend most of the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced yesterday, more than three decades after the crimes.Gary Allen Irving, 52, captured March 27 by members of the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section at his Gorham, Maine, home, was ...

  • Travelers get help for Memorial Day

    Motorists stuck in traffic as they head off for Memorial Day weekend getaways will see something new on many of the state’s most congested highways today: digital message boards telling them how many more miles and minutes to major points.Nearly 50 new signs providing real-time traffic information are being introduced to the Mass Pike (from Logan airport to Sturbridge), Route 3 (from ...

  • Casino stance hurts Daniel F. Conley in crucial Eastie

    A key political power broker in the battleground neighborhood of East Boston has yanked his support for Daniel F. Conley’s mayoral bid after the district attorney called for a citywide vote that was seen as a threat to the Suffolk Downs casino bid."He was my guy, but right now I’m just putting it on ice," said state Rep. Carlo Basile, who last month endorsed Conley and ...

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