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    MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...

  • Mass. State Rep. resigns from post amid ethics investigation

    Massachusetts State Rep. John Fresolo, the focus of House Ethics Committee investigation in recent months, has resigned from the House of ...

  • Teen found dead in woods knew alleged killer

    A 15-year-old girl found dead in woods north of Bangor knew the man charged with killing her, her best friend said, contrary to a report from her mother that she left her Glenburn home to see someone she recently met on Facebook before she ...

  • FBI Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe

    Investigators stand outside an apartment complex in Orlando, Fla., where a man was fatally shot when a team of FBI agents swarmed his home early on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. The FBI says the man, being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation. (AP Photo/John ...

  • Bruins Rally In Third Take 3-0 Series Lead Over Rangers

    Daniel Paille scored the tiebreaking goal with 3:31 left in the third period - after defenseman Johnny Boychuk got the Bruins even earlier in the frame - and Boston put the Rangers on the brink of elimination with a 2-1 victory in Game 3 of the Eastern Conference semifinal series on Tuesday ...


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Dead Man Walking

Dead Man Walking

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind." -- John Donne And so feel most opponents of the death penalty, including Tim Robbins, the writer-director of "Dead Man Walking," one of the first films to openly tackle this issue. But you wouldn't know Robbins' politics from watching the film because he does the audience the service of not preaching h ... ...

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  • Man killed had become violent during questioning on Boston bombing FBI

    This combination of undated file photos shows the two brothers the FBI initially said were suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing on Monday, April 15, 2013, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, left, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. Suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a gunfight with police several days later, while Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was captured and lies in a hospital prison. Three more suspects have been taken ...

  • Slain Russian was arrested in 2010 Boston road rage fight

    Ibragim Todashev - the Chechen shot dead overnight by the FBI while being questioned in connection with the marathon bombing - was arrested by Boston police in 2010 after a wild street fight that followed a road rage incident in Downtown Crossing, according to a police report.The report states: "About 3:21 PM on Thursday 2/11/10 Officers Hester and Cordasco were patrolling in the ...

  • Woman who survived recalls white supremacist’s attack

    The Cape Verdean immigrant who white supremacist Keith Luke is accused of raping and shooting during his 2009 rampage through the streets of Brockton locked eyes with her sneering attacker only once during her hour-long account of the gruesome assault that resulted in her younger sister’s murder."It was the last time I saw my sister, the last time," the woman said today in ...

  • Former state rep charged with trafficking methamphetamine

    A former state representative, who once chaired the ethics committee, busted for trafficking methamphetamine near a school was issued a monitoring bracelet if he could post his $10,000 bail after his attorney pleaded with the judge to release his client because he is stricken with cancer."His life is on the line here literally. This is a man who is being treated for stage three cancer at ...

  • Source Fatal shooting in Fla. tied to bombing Waltham murders

    A 27-year-old Russian native shot dead overnight in Orlando, Fla., became "violent" during questioning by an FBI agent and Massachusetts State Police investigators about the marathon bombings and any links to a triple-murder in Waltham in 2011.The FBI confirmed ...

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