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    MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...

  • 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 ...

  • Boston bombing probe Man shot dead by FBI

    An FBI agent shot and killed a 27-year-old alleged friend of slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Florida, a day after questioning him as part of the investigation into the April 15 attack, media reports said. The victim, identified as Ibragim Todashev, was shot at a condominium complex Wednesday in Orlando, Florida. The FBI confirmed a man died while one of its agents ...

  • Democratic Senate hopeful Markey to release tax returns

    A spokesman for Markey said he will release the returns on Friday going back to 2005. That's more than his Republican rival Gabriel Gomez, who released several years of tax returns during the Republican primary. Gomez and state Republican leaders had ramped up pressure on Markey to release his returns. Markey spokesman Andrew Zucker called on Gomez to release his 2005 returns. Those ...

  • Thousands of flags to fly in fallen soldiers honor

    Not one small flag flew by a single soldier's grave, Monti of Raynham said about the cemetery where his son, Jared C. Monti, a Medal of Honor recipient who died while trying to save another soldier's life, is buried, ...


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The Sweet Hereafter

In "The Sweet Hereafter," writer/director Atom Egoyan takes us beyond the tragedy of death into the tragedy of living. He shows us how it isn't dying that hurts, but rather the pain of living in the hereafter of death, and dealing with the loss and grief that it brings. On a cold winter day in a small, isolated town in British Columbia, a school bus full of children slides off the highway and onto ... ...

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  • Mass. Senate approves changes to sex offender laws

    The proposal was approved as an amendment to the Senate version of the state budget. It is also designed to strengthen information sharing between the Sex Offender Registry Board and other state agencies. Senate President Therese Murray said the Senate decided to take action after the arrest of a Wakefield man last year for allegedly sexually abusing children at his wife's unlicensed day ...

  • Obama says US at crossroads in terror fight

    President Barack Obama in a major counterterrorism speech Thursday defended the American drone program, saying that despite the controversies around it, the strikes are legal and save ...

  • TechStars Boston class touts throng of paying customers slideshow

    LinkCycle - Software which aims to help manufacturers reduce energy use, without deploying any extra hardware. The software, which can be used on an iPad, works by mapping the flow of electricity through manufacturing equipment and finding inefficiencies. LinkCycle has five customers so far using the software, in a total of seven facilities. Among the customers is Rubbermaid, which has found $1 ...

  • DA Waltham triple-murder `by no means closed’

    The investigation into a gruesome triple homicide in Waltham in 2011 that may have ties to the Boston Marathon bombing "has not concluded and is by no means closed," despite the deaths of Russian nationals Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Ibragim Todashev, Middlesex District Attorney Marian T. Ryan said today."The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office continues its open and active ...

  • Environmental group to spend in Mass. election

    BOSTON - A group of environmental activists led by California billionaire Thomas Steyer that spent nearly $900,000 during the U.S Senate primary in plans to return to the state to work against Republican nominee Gabriel Gomez.Chris LeHane, a spokesman for the NextGen Committee, said in a memo to Steyer's Massachusetts supporters on Thursday that the group planned to be a "politically ...

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