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Gill named new Conn. chief medical examiner

Dr. James R. Gill’s appointment was announced Thursday by the state Commission on Medicolegal Investigations, which oversees the medical examiner’s office in Farmington. Gill succeeds Dr. H. Wayne Carver II, who is retiring after 24 years as the state’s top medical ...
Worcester officer cleared in brutality lawsuit

WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A jury has found in favor of a Worcester police officer in a brutality lawsuit brought by a man who alleged the officer severely beat him with his service baton during a fight outside a ...
Portsmouth asks judge kill Sakonnet bridge tolls

PORTSMOUTH, R.I. (AP) - Portsmouth officials have asked a federal judge to stop the Rhode Island Turnpike and Bridge Authority from installing a toll system on the new Sakonnet River ...
Mass. man dies in ATV crash in Vt.

Police said 42-year-old Frank Baker Jr. of Acushnet, Mass., lost control of the ATV about 10 p.m. Thursday. The ATV went off the trail and Baker was thrown from the ...
Nashua NH police say man in van approached girl

NASHUA, N.H. (AP) - Police in Nashua, N.H., are asking the public to be on the lookout for a man driving a white van who told a young girl to get inside his ...

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Island of Lost Souls [Blu-Ray]

Released at the height of the classical era of Hollywood horror, a few years after Universals blockbuster one-two punch of Dracula (1930) and Frankenstein (1931) and the same year as MGMs Freaks (1932), RKOs The Most Dangerous Game (1932), and t ... ...

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New veterans center opening in NH

It offers individual and group counseling for veterans and their family members, military sexual trauma counseling, and post-traumatic stress disorder ...
The Best in Boston Real Estate Photos from the BBJ event

Mike Barsamian accepts the Residential award for his Belgrade Place in West Roxbury, MA at the Boston Business Journal's Best in Boston Real Estate Awards luncheon. About 450 people gathered Thursday at the Sheraton Boston Hotel for the first-ever Best in Boston Real Estate Awards. Caesars' Entertainment chairman and CEO Gary Loveman was the keynote speaker. Joseph Fallon, CEO and ...
Maine hospital Boston hospital collaborate

LEWISTON, Maine (AP) -- A Maine hospital group and one of Boston's most prestigious hospitals have announced a collaboration aimed at streamlining services for local cancer patients who need care in ...
Historic Freeport tavern to reopen

FREEPORT, Maine (AP) -- The historic Freeport tavern that bills itself as the "Birthplace of Maine" is expected to reopen this summer under new ...
Conn. House approves home foreclosure help bill

The House approved the legislation on a 135-0 vote Thursday night and sent it to the Senate. It would add to the state's existing foreclosure mediation program that is aimed at preventing people from losing their ...

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Dead Boston bomber involved in 2011 slayings: Report

Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple murder outside Boston along with a Chechen killed during a confrontation with law enforcement officers,

according to media reports.

Ibragim Todashev was fatally shot early Wednesday during an interview with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, CNN reported citing a federal law enforcement official.

But before he was shot, Todashev not only confessed to his direct role in slashing the throats of three people in Waltham, Massachusetts, but also fingered Tsarnaev in the deaths, the official said.

Todashev was being questioned about the slayings and his acquaintance with Tsarnaev, when he attacked an FBI agent, who shot him dead, CNN said.

The unsolved triple murder received renewed interest after it was learned that Tsarnaev had been a good friend of one of the Waltham victims.

According to the channel, Todashev told investigators the men were killed during a drug ripoff because he and Tsarnaev were afraid they would be able to identify them and tell police what happened.

So far, no link has been found between Todashev and the Boston Marathon bombings. However, the FBI is looking into the many connections between Todashev and Tsarnaev, whose radicalisation allegedly led to the Boston bombings. ...