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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 ...

  • NHL Bruins edge ahead of Blackhawks in Stanley Cup finals

    NHL Stanley Cup finals. The Bruins took a 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven championship series thanks to second-period goals from Daniel Paille and Patrice Bergeron.In the third, the Bruins relied on Rask to preserve the lead and once again he came through with his third shut-out of the play-offs. The Blackhawks have now lost two straight ...

  • Tuukka Rask Earns Shutout As Bruins Take 2-1 Series Lead Over Blackhawks

    The Bruins goalie stopped 28 shots for his third career playoff shutout, helping Boston beat Chicago 2-0 on Monday night to take a 2-1 lead in the Stanley Cup finals. After playing four extra periods in the first two games, the Bruins made an early night of it with second-period goals by Daniel Paille and Patrice ...

  • Bruins hold together dominate Blackhawks in 2-0 Game 3 win

    Charles Krupa/AP BOSTON -- Flip the switch. On. Off. From a certain perspective, Game 3 was an extension of the last 36 minutes of Wednesday's Game 2 -- the Blackhawks' tank of energy spilled onto the ice, the Bruins re-fueled and the series that seemed tilted toward Chicago simply turned upside-down. After Boston's surgical 2-0 victory on Monday, the Blackhawks can ...

  • Stanley Cup Stories Bruins take control

    Daniel Paille (20) of the Boston Bruins celebrates after scoring a goal in the second period against the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of the Stanley Cup final on Monday. (Getty Images/Harry ...


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Movie Review

The Tree of Life [Blu-Ray]

The Tree of Life [Blu-Ray]

The Tree of Life is the fifth film writer/director Terrence Malick has made over the past four decades, and it feels like the one he has been working toward all his life. A lyrical, semi-autobiographical evocation of the joys and pains of life, the film weaves together all of ... ...

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  • Wharnsby Bruins make Blackhawks look ordinary

    Bruins forward Patrice Bergeron (37) celebrates with goalie Tuukka Rask after Boston defeated the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 Monday night to take a 2-1 series lead in the Stanley Cup final. (Harry How/Getty ...

  • Readers vexed about theater texting

    Texting in movie theaters: It’s the worst.Almost all of you sympathized with the reader who wrote in to OMG yesterday, frustrated with a theater-texter who actually had the nerve to call out our reader for talking during the movie when he was only asking her to stop texting! Emails flooded the omg@bostonherald.com inbox."Saw Superman at AMC Methuen Friday night. Before the show ...

  • Bruins get ‘stronger’ showing

    The Bruins finally brought their Cup quest home to TD Garden last night, where the flag-waving, ?TUUUUUUUUUUKKK-yelling, black-and-gold-wearing hockey horde gleefully watched the B’s shut out the Blackhawks 2-0 to take a 2-1 Stanley Cup Finals lead."The Bruins will win (the series),’’ predicted a confident Secretary of State John Kerry, who was back in town yesterday to ...

  • N.H. man arraigned in toddler’s death

    A New Hampshire man who said he tried to stop a 2-year-old boy from fussing is accused of wrapping the child in blankets and securing them with a rope, then putting a duffel bag on top of him. Jared Pope of Somersworth, 30, has been charged with smothering 2-year-old Noah York. Pope’s bail was set at $250,000 at his arraignment Monday. Police were called to a Somersworth apartment Friday ...

  • Acadia park fall injures three climbers

    Acadia National Park rangers said a broken rope was to blame for a fall that injured three climbers on a 25-foot-high rock face and led to a complicated rescue. Ranger Will Overton said that two men tumbled from the rock face at Otter Cliffs and that one or both landed on a third climber at the bottom Sunday morning. A man and woman were taken away in an ambulance. It took roughly four hours to ...

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