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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 ...

  • Slow pokes Acupuncture helps cold turtles

    Acupuncturist Claire McManus treats a sea turtle, which was injured after getting stranded on Cape Cod during a prolonged exposure to cold weather, at the New England Aquarium's animal car center in Quincy, ...

  • Boston police target alleged gang members

    A police department spokeswoman says suspects include gang members and authorities are obtaining search warrants for several houses in the ...

  • Showers storms possible this afternoon for Mass.

    Track storms with interactive radar Doppler Radar showed scattered showers and thunderstorms over portions of Southern New Hampshire and Northern Massachusetts moving east. Additional thunderstorm development is expected later Tuesday afternoon and evening with the potential for isolated to scattered strong to severe thunderstorms possible. "As we go into the afternoon, we will see a ...

  • Photographer sees kids pulled from tornado-ravaged school

    I expected chaos as I approached the piles of bricks and twisted metal where Plaza Towers Elementary once stood. Instead, it was calm and orderly as police and firefighters pulled children out one by one from beneath a large chunk of a collapsed ...


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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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  • Massive Roxbury raid targets dozens of drug violent crime suspects

    A huge drug-trafficking sweep this morning in Roxbury has netted "a series of arrests," authorities said."Boston police, armed with warrants out of Roxbury District Court and Suffolk Superior Court, and a small number out of U.S. District Court, undertook a series of arrests based on a long-term investigation intending to target drug offenses and suppress violent crime," said ...

  • Marathon bomb victims eligible for state fund

    BOSTON -- Those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings have an alternative to the widely-publicized One Fund when seeking compensation.The state's Victim Compensation Fund, administered by the attorney general's office, could provide up to $25,000 in aid to qualified applicants. Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is trying to raise awareness of the fund, says it may also help ...

  • Children rescued after abduction by dad from Braintree foster home

    Two children state police said were abducted from a Braintree foster home by their father yesterday afternoon were rescued safe and sound late last night at a Connecticut convenience store, two hours after an Amber Alert was broadcast appealing to the public for help in locating them.It worked.Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said Jon T. Lockwood was captured at a 7-11 in ...

  • Vt. judge denies new lawyer bid in teacher killing

    ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont judge has denied a request for a new lawyer by a woman charged, along with her husband, with killing a popular St. Johnsbury ...

  • Closing arguments set in ex-Donovan aides trial

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A federal court jury is scheduled to hear closing arguments and begin deliberations in the corruption trial of an aide to former Connecticut House Speaker Chris ...

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