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Donations for Oklahoma top $20 million

The Red Cross has received more than $15 million in donations and pledges so far for the town of Moore, which was struck by a tornado Monday that killed 24, injured more than 300 and destroyed thousands of ...
Small plane out of Massachusetts crashes in N.Y.

A small passenger plane that took off from Hanscom Air Force Base crashed in New York tonight.The Piper PA 34 aircraft with three people on board crashed in Garoga, N.Y., near Highway 29 at about 5:10 p.m., said Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen.The identities and conditions of the people on the plane were not immediately known.Bergen said the plane had been headed to ...

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Gov. Peter Shumlin is defending a property deal he made with a neighbor whose family now says the man is mentally unfit to make the sale ...
Small plane from Hanscom Field crashes in New York

A small plane that departed from Hanscom Field in Bedford with three people on board has crashed in New York, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The Piper PA 34 aircraft was 60 miles from its Rome, N.Y., destination when it went down near Garoga, N.Y., at 5:10 p.m., said FAA spokeswoman Kathleen Bergen said. The conditions of the passengers were not immediately available. The ...
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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. ...