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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 ...

  • How you can help tornado victims

    Search and rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered ...

  • Body pulled from river thought to be missing sailor

    The body was pulled from the water at the Newburyport Yacht Club on Sunday. Police say although positive identification is pending, they are working on the assumption that the body is 51-year-old Richard Decker. The German national was reported missing in November. Authorities determined he likely fell into the river from his 37-foot boat. Police tell The Daily News of Newburyport that because ...

  • Official Story has Odd Wrinkles A Pack of Questions about the Boston Bombing

    The horrific bombing of the Boston Marathon, to hear the FBI and the Boston Police tell it, is solved: One bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is dead, gunned down by police and then run over for good measure by his fleeing brother Dzhokhar, who was captured a day later in a citywide manhunt, after being hit by a fusillade of police bullets fired into a trailered pleasure boat he was hiding ...

  • NFL Owners To Decide Super Bowl 50 Site During Meetings In Boston

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The Jane Austen Book Club

The Jane Austen Book Club

While it certainly helps to be familiar with the works of Jane Austen and to be able to distinguish between, say, Elizabeth Bennett and Marianne Dashwood, it is not a perquisite to enjoying screenwriter-turned-first-time-director Robin Swicord's romantic dramedy T ... ...

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  • Merrimack River body thought to be missing sailor

    NEWBURYPORT, Mass. -- Police say a badly decomposed body pulled from the Merrimack River last weekend appears to be that of a sailor who's been missing since November.The body was pulled from the water at the Newburyport Yacht Club on Sunday.Police say although positive identification is pending, they are working on the assumption that the body is 51-year-old Richard Decker. The German ...

  • Man pleads not guilty to Vt. auto dealership fire

    BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A man arrested in connection with a fire set at a car dealership in Pittsford, Vt., in July 2011 has pleaded not guilty to a federal arson ...

  • Vt. bank donates historic building to 2 nonprofits

    BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A bank building that’s been part of North Bennington, Vt., since 1864, has been donated to two nonprofit ...

  • Former police official tapped to head jails board

    CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. (AP) - A former Rhode Island state police superintendent has been picked to lead the board at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention ...

  • Foster mother pleads guilty to assault in spanking

    NORWICH, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut foster parent faces 100 days in jail after acknowledging she spanked a 4-year-old girl with a wooden ...

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