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  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Cardinal skips Boston College graduation over Irish prime ministers role

    Enda Kenny , who supports a bill in his country that would allow abortion.A few dozen protesters, some playing bagpipes, demonstrated at the college during the morning graduation ceremony. They held signs with messages that included ';Boston College Keep Your Pro Life ...

  • Rangers head home confident they can bounce back against Bruins

    New York Rangers right wing Ryan Callahan skates away as the Boston Bruins celebrate a goal during the second period in Game 2 of the NHL Eastern Conference semi-final hockey playoff series in Boston, Sunday, May 19, 2013. (Elise ...

  • Tornado touches down in Oklahoma City area

    The National Weather Service issued a rare tornado emergency for the Oklahoma City metropolitan area as at least one twister touched down in the ...

  • The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival ships up to Boston from June 28-30

    Comedy Festival to Boston for the first time with three nights of outstanding comedy and music, June 28, 29 and 30. Mirman is a comedian and hero who was raised in Boston and now lives in Brooklyn where he curates his annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival which will be making its first-ever trip to Boston for a weekend of shows. Joining Eugene at next month's festival will be Bobcat ...


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The Hand [DVD]

The Hand [DVD]

I Bury the Living is a corker of a horror-thriller that draws you in, but ultimately lets you down with an explanatory ending that just doesnt fit. Made quickly on a shoestring budget, it was one of an onslaught of small-scale drive-in flicks that poured out of scrappy independent studios in the 1950s and early 1960s, most of which were immediately forgettable. I Bury the Living< ... ...

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  • School Attended By Boston Bombing Suspect Launches Task Force

    DARTMOUTH, Mass. (AP) -- The college where Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended has formed a public safety task force in the wake of the April 15 attack. University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth officials will review emergency planning and academic and financial policies related to maintaining ';student in good standing'; ...

  • UMass Dartmouth names post-bombing review task force

    The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth has named several out-of-state officials to make up a task force that will review school policies and procedures in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings, when federal agents zeroed in on the southeastern Massachusetts campus and arrested several students.Led by Montana State University president Waded Cruzado, the task force will look at ...

  • BPD Driver suspected in cyclist’s death “cooperating”

    A truck driver believed to have struck and killed a visiting Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist and her bicycle in the Back Bay yesterday afternoon has been located and "is talking to detectives and cooperating with the investigation," Boston police tweeted.The driver, whose identity has not been released, is not currently facing charges."It appears he didn’t ...

  • Feds nix Bulger lawyers’ bid for name of confidential FBI informant

    Federal prosecutors are refusing a request by James "Whitey" Bulger’s defense team to turn over the name of a confidential FBI informant,The informant spoke to FBI agents about conversations Whitey henchmen Kevin Weeks and John Martorano may have had with other individuals regarding what they would say if ever called to testify, defense attorneys J.W. Carney Jr. and Hank Brennan ...

  • Conn. court blasts prosecutor reverses conviction

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - The state Appellate Court has issued a ruling blasting a Connecticut prosecutor for repeated misconduct and ordering a new trial for a man serving life in prison for the killing of a Waterbury bar owner in ...

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