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Lackey looks to cool down red-hot Indians

Unlike Thursday's series opener between the Indians and Red Sox, which had a total of 15 runs scored on 23 hits, Friday's game at Fenway Park could be quite the pitchers' duel. Justin Masterson will be on the hill for Cleveland, while John Lackey toes the rubber for Boston. The Indians right-hander has won three straight games and was named the American League Player of the Week ...
Mail Online scoops biggest ever digital day with Boston marathon bombing

Mail Online with its biggest ever digital day, attracting more than 9.5 million unique users.However, the bombing proved the 12th and 16th most popular web days in April ...
Chris Kreider Overtime Goal Keeps Rangers Alive Cuts Bruins Lead To 3-1

Chris Kreider #20 of the New York Rangers celebrates after he scored the game-winning goal in overtime against goalie Tuukka Rask #40 of the Boston Bruins to give the Rangers a 4-3 win in Game Four of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden on May 23, 2013 in New York ...
Senate votes to establish Cellucci ALS Registry

BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Senate has voted to establish a Department of Public Health ALS registry named after former Gov. Paul ...
Bruins bad in big way

NEW YORK - The only way the Rangers were going to avoid being swept last night was if the Bruins fell down on the job.And did they ever - literally, figuratively, every way.What was your lowlight from last night? Was it Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask tripping on the ice as a dribbler slid Buckner-esque by him and into the net? Was it Zdeno Chara allowing the Rangers’ Derek Stepan to sneak ...

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Time in Boston Short but sweet to Mike Aviles

Mike Aviles’ career with the Red Sox probably won’t go down in the annals of team history.But as Aviles was slipping on his Cleveland uniform for his first game back at Fenway Park last night before the Red Sox and Indians played the opener of a four-game set, he reminisced about his feelings when his run with Sox was done. His time with the Red Sox was short - a year and a half - ...
State Senate passes $33.9 billion budget

The state Senate voted 36 to 3 Thursday night to approve a $33.99 billlion budget for fiscal 2014, adding $68.4 million in spending to the plan over the course of two days of ...
Rask Chara And Co. Didn’t Deserve Game 4 Win And Other Leftover Bruins Thoughts

BOSTON (CBS) — Sure, the Bruins very nearly pulled off a Game 4 victory, but did they really deserve it? They literally handed a goal to a dead, desperate team in front of a listless home crowd to completely change the environment late in the second period. The Bruins had just taken a 2-0 lead, and tweets about the Rangers’ summer plans immediately began to fill the Internet void. ...
Friend implicated Boston bomber in 2011 triple murder before being shot dead by FBI

File photo of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. An alleged friend of Tsarnaev, Ibragim Todashev, was shot and killed by police early Wednesday when he became violent during questioning by the ...
Fugitive rapist to spend up to 40 years in prison

A man who fled and lived a secret life in Maine after being convicted of raping three South Shore teenagers in 1978 will spend most of the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced yesterday, more than three decades after the crimes.Gary Allen Irving, 52, captured March 27 by members of the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section at his Gorham, Maine, home, was ...

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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. ...