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Police at New England Patriots Tight End Aaron Hernandezs Home for Second Day

BOSTON | A man found dead in an industrial park about a mile from New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez's house was a semi-pro football player with connections to Hernandez, his family said ...
Chicago Blackhawks beat Boston Bruins in 11-goal overtime thriller

Bryan Bickell and Jonathan Toews of the Chicago Blackhawks celebrate after Brent Seabrook (not pictured) scores the game winning goal against Tuukka Rask of the Boston Bruins in overtime in Game Four of the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Final at TD Garden on June 19, 2013 in Boston, Massachusetts. Photograph: Bruce Bennett/Getty ...
Rask finally has rough game Blackhawks tie series

The Bruins goalie, who had been spectacular throughout the postseason, finally lost his touch against some of the NHL’s top scorers as the Chicago Blackhawks beat Boston 6-5 in overtime and tied the Stanley Cup finals 2-2 on Wednesday ...
Secretary Kerry Do you mean John or Cameron

WASHINGTON - John Kerry is Secretary of State. Cam Kerry is acting Secretary of Commerce. It means that, for the first time in history, there are two brothers serving at the same time in a presidential ...
Maine governor to stop talking to three newspapers

PORTLAND, Maine - Maine’s blunt-spoken governor does not mince words when opponents dare to cross him but he has saved some of his harshest criticism for newspapers, once telling schoolchildren he is not a fan of newspapers and another time saying that reading one is ‘‘like paying somebody to tell you ...

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Borderline [DVD]

Fifty odd years hasnt done so badly in getting an art into the world that fifty more will probably turn into THE art, but now, after somewhat magnificent growth, one feels here is its critical age. Its humble Pier Penny Peep Show beginning is still far too evident, and one sees that in a very short while the thing that people now go to see will have become tradition, and standard, as t ... ...

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For second time in two days a man in Dorchester is shot in a car as a child sleeps

On Tuesday, the male victim, a young girl, and the girl’s mother were in a car parked along Norwell Street about 7 p.m. when a black sport utility vehicle pulled alongside, Boston police ...
Marjorie Dorson Harvey 91 of Littleton writer and activist had taught at Concord Academy

A freelance writer who often used articles to bring readers along with her on journeys, Marjorie Dorson Harvey wrote her last column for the Littleton Independent about her final trip, a path through the unknown world of ...
Charlotte Golar Richie to receive endorsement of EMILY’S List in mayor’s race

Boston mayoral candidate Charlotte Golar Richie on Thursday will receive the endorsement of EMILY’S List, a national political organization for women that could provide a much needed fund-raising boost for her fledgling ...
A lost year at Madison Park high school

The missing textbooks and broken ceilings at Madison Park Technical Vocational High School are bush-league problems, the kind of absurdities that plagued urban schools back when disco did, long before the mayor staked his reputation on education, long before the entire city turned its attention to the achievement gap. But here we are, in 2013, and Madison Park is in the midst of its own ...
Mass. couple’s 2001 message in a bottle found

REHOBOTH - The couple from Massachusetts had just finished off a bottle of champagne to celebrate their engagement on a Florida beach in August 2001 when they got a crazy ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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Putin refutes allegation he stole Super Bowl ring

MOSCOW - Robert K. Kraft, an American business magnate and New England Patriots football team owner, has alleged that Vladimir Putin took away his Super Bowl ring in 2005, an accusation that has sparked a minor international controversy

The Russian president however denied the allegation about the diamond-encrusted sporting prize that he says was gifted to him by the football team owner.

The Super Bowl ring is an award in a National Football League given to the winners of the championship.

Kraft, being honored at Carnegie Hall's Medal of Excellence gala at the Waldorf-Astoria, said that Putin took his Super Bowl XXXIX ring when the Patriots' owner visited St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2005.

The businessman had at that time said that he gave the ring to Putin as a gift.

"I took out the ring and showed it to (Putin). And he put it on and he goes, 'I can kill someone with this ring,'" Kraft said at the event last week, according to the New York Post.

"I put my hand out and he put it in his pocket, and three KGB guys got around him and walked out."

Kraft added that he had wanted the ring back because "I had an emotional tie to the ring".

"It has my name on it," he added. ...