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Tuukka Rask blunder allows Rangers to stay alive against Bruins in NHL playoffs

New York grab 4-3 overtime victory over Boston to keep series alive after Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask gifts Rangers comeback; Detroit Red Wings take 3-1 series lead over Chicago ...
Friday Throwdown Lt. Gov. Tim Murray steps down

Are you going to miss resigning Lt. Gov. Tim Murray?The scandal -plagued number two official in Gov. Deval Patrick’s Administration announced this week he would be stepping down in June in order to take a job at the Worcester Chamber of Commerce.Previously, Murray’s most dramatic press conference came in 2011 when he spoke about the high-speed, pre-dawn crash that left a wreck of his ...
Methuen teen asks to be freed from jail

SALEM, Mass. (AP) - A Methuen High School student charged with making online threats has asked a judge to grant him bail so he can go ...
January trial set in triple slaying in Berkshire County

Three men facing murder charges in a triple slaying in Berkshire County will go on trial in January, a judge has ruled. Adam Lee Hall, David Chalue, and Caius Veiovis appeared together in court Wednesday for the first time since their arraignment 18 months ago amid heavy security. They are charged with killing David Glasser, Edward Frampton, and Robert Chadwell of Pittsfield in ...
Homeland Security Secretary To Visit Boston Marathon Bombings Memorial

BOSTON (CBS) – Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be in Boston Friday. She will visit the memorial for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings and meet with state and local officials including State Police Superintendent Colonel Timothy Alben, Mayor Tom Menino, and Police Commissioner Ed Davis. Napolitano's office says they’ll talk about training and ...

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The Last Days of Disco [DVD]

As the title implies, Whit Stillmans The Last Days of Disco is set in the very early eighties, and one of the films unexpected pleasures is that it manages to evoke a very specific time period without becoming mired in it. As both writer and director, Stillman pulls ... ...

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Mass. Clean Energy invests in new tech-promoting partnerships

A half-dozen young companies that have developed energy-saving technologies -- from storage batteries to improved solar panels -- will be sharing $734,134 in seed money from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center to showcase their ideas to potential investors. Mass Clean Energy, a publicly-funded agency, awarded the grant money through a competitive program, InnovateMass, thats intended to spur ...
Boston bombing suspects hearing rescheduled

BOSTON (AP) -- A federal judge has rescheduled a probable cause hearing for surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' ...
Medical examiner death of ex-officer was suicide

DANBURY, Conn. (AP) -- The chief medical examiner's office says a former New Milford officer convicted of an on-duty killing committed suicide by carbon monoxide ...
Acushnet man dies in ATV crash in Vermont

CONCORD, Vt. - Vermont State Police say a Massachusetts man has died in an ATV crash in the town of Concord.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 vehicle.Police said Baker was not wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. He was given CPR at the scene but was not able ...
US Marshals search for man in NH Mass. assaults

CONCORD, N.H. - The U.S. Marshals are looking for a man wanted on arrest warrants concerning assaults in New Hampshire and Massachusetts.The marshals said Friday 28-year-old Shaun Springer of Portsmouth is wanted on suspicion of second-degree assault by strangulation in Portsmouth and assault with intent to murder/discharge a firearm in Lynn, Mass. He is considered armed and dangerous.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. ...