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  • Boy 2 found floating in pool improving

    Police say Cody Campbell had a pulse but no brain activity after he was pulled from the above-ground pool by his mother last Thursday. Kennebec County Sheriff's Department officials say Cody is recovering at Maine Medical Center and he now recognizes his parents. Sheriff Randall Liberty tells WMTW-TV that the child is also talking, although he has some difficulties speaking. Cody was at ...

  • Wednesday June 19 Rising Tides

    When tidal waters churned up by Hurricane Sandy engulfed New York City homes, hospitals and transit tunnels, it was a wakeup call for other coastal cities. Add to that a disturbing forecast of sea levels rising 3 to 6 feet in the next few decades, and we have to ask: are Boston's decision makers listening? Tonight, we'll see how local government officials and the business community are ...

  • Mob enforcer was trying to help family when he killed for Bulger

    A former enforcer for James "Whitey" Bulger is expected to face more tough cross-examination by Bulger's lawyers when he returns to the witness stand for a third ...

  • Man convicted of killing rival in bed

    Michael Blanchard was convicted Tuesday in Norfolk Superior Court of killing 21-year-old Stephen Erving at about 3:30 a.m. on March 16, 2010. Prosecutors say the 24-year-old Blanchard fired several rounds from a 9 mm pistol through Erving's first-floor bedroom window. Authorities say the men knew each other and had a long-running feud. Blanchard's lawyer has said the Erving had ...

  • Fists chairs fly during brawl at mall restaurant

    The fight started at Food Locker at the Westgate Mall and spilled over into Popeye's. Surveillance video shows fists and chairs flying inside the ...


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Movie Review

Fast Five [Blu-Ray]

Fast Five [Blu-Ray]

At one point in Fast Five, the fifth entry in the unexpectedly long-lived car-crash-and-crime series started a decade ago by The Fast and the Furious (2001), one character describes another character as Old Testament: ... ...

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  • Dodgeball dodges ax at local schools

    The Windham School Board on Tuesday night accepted a study committee's recommendation to let students play dodgeball and other "human target" games next year. That was a change from a vote in March to eliminate the games over concerns about student safety and bullying. The board said some games will be renamed to sound less violent. For example, "Slaughter" would become ...

  • Heckler subdued with stun gun at gun control rally

    Officers took 52-year-old Daniel Musso to the ground shortly after he interrupted a speech in favor of expanded background checks for people purchasing guns. Reporter Adam Sexton watched the altercation unfold. Sexton said the rally attracted a passionate pro-Second Amendment crowd, including Musso, who now faces multiple charges, including simple assault of a police officer. The confrontation ...

  • John Martorano’s ‘nice guy’ image picked apart by defense

    John Martorano’s self-image as a "nice guy" who could justify murder to help a friend or take out a "Judas" will be exploited today by lawyers for James ?"Whitey" Bulger, as they continue to paint the aging ex-hit man as an unrepentant fiend who sold out his Winter Hill Gang partners for freedom, money and his name in lights."You knew the future ...

  • High Noon Howie Joe 
weigh in on 
debate trial

    With less than a week until voters head to the polls for the special election for the open U.S. ?Senate seat, Democrat ?U.S. Rep. Edward J. Mar­?key and Republican rival Gab­riel E. Gomez met ?last night in a feisty final debate.Who scored and who was off base?Hear what Howie Carr and Joe Battenfeld have to say about the candidates’ performance on today’s weekly "High ...

  • School board in allows dodgeball similar games

    The Windham School Board on Tuesday night accepted a study committee’s recommendation to let students play dodgeball and other ‘‘human target’’ games next year. That was a change from a vote in March to eliminate the games over concerns about student safety and ...

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