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    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 ...

  • Rescuers search board by board for survivors

    Amid downed power lines, hissing gas pipes and immense devastation, rescuers searched "board by board" Tuesday for survivors and victims of a massive tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City ...

  • Dozens file nomination paperwork in Boston mayoral race

    City officials say more than a dozen candidates have submitted nomination papers with more expected to do so by Tuesday's 5 p.m. deadline. Menino is the city's longest serving mayor. He announced in March that he would not run for re-election after five full terms in office. The decision sets the stage for the city's first wide open mayoral election in three ...

  • Hearing postponed for Boston bombing suspect

    BOSTON -; A judge has agreed to postpone a probable cause hearing for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' ...

  • El Paso Nonprofits Aid Boston Bangladesh Victims

    Limbs International, an El Paso not-for-profit organization which helps leg amputees in Third World countries, plans to provide prosthetics to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and victims of a garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, it announced Monday. The organization is ready to provide its Limbs Relief Knee, a durable, plastic, low-cost, artificial knee used as part of a ...


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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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  • No Shortage Of Candidates For Boston Mayoral Election As Deadline Nears

    retiring Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. City officials say more than a dozen candidates have submitted nomination papers with more expected to do so by Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline. Menino is the city’s longest serving mayor. He announced in March that he ...

  • Dennis Seidenberg Unlikely To Play Wade Redden A Game-Time Decision In Game 3 For Bruins

    BOSTON (CBS) — Dennis Seidenberg continues to get closer to being able to return to game action, but head coach Claude Julien does not expect the defenseman to make that return Tuesday night in Game 3 against the ...

  • Judge agrees to delay in case of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev

    By Pete Williams, NBC News justice correspondent The judge overseeing the government's prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving defendant in the Boston Marathon bombing case, has agreed to delay the next step in the case for roughly a month.A probable cause hearing had been scheduled for May 30, but federal prosecutors and lawyers for Tsarnaev asked Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler ...

  • Rangers hope to begin another comeback but Bruins formidable

    GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) Don't judge the New York Rangers by the scores of their two losses to the Boston Bruins. According to coach John Tortorella, the Rangers played much better in the Game 2 blowout than in their overtime defeat in the series opener. The bottom line is this: for the second consecutive series, New York has dug an 0-2 hole on the road and will need to rebound quickly at ...

  • Tsarnaev’s probable cause hearing delayed until July

    Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s much-anticipated first public appearance has been put off for at least another two months by a federal judge.U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler today granted a joint request by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Tsarnaev’s defense team to postpone the former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ...

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