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  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States

    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 ...

  • Okla. tornado death toll revised down to at least 24

    A massive, howling tornado pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, chewing up homes and businesses, and severely damaging a hospital and two elementary ...

  • Kids rescued after abduction by dad from Braintree foster home

    Two children state police said were abducted from a Braintree foster home by their father yesterday afternoon were rescued safe and sound late last night at a Connecticut convenience store, two hours after an Amber Alert was broadcast appealing to the public for help in locating them.It worked.Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said Jon T. Lockwood was captured at a 7-11 in ...

  • Attleboro rehires contractor despite lunch flap

    ATTLEBORO, Mass. - The city of Attleboro has renewed its contract with the food services company that created a national ruckus when its workers denied lunch to about two dozen middle school students whose account balances were in arrears.The school committee on Monday approved a one-year contract with New York-based Whitsons Culinary Group.Whitsons officials apologized after cafeteria workers ...

  • Bruschi elected to Patriots team Hall of Fame

    The team announced Tuesday that the linebacker and three-time Super Bowl champion will be inducted along with broadcaster Gil Santos at a ceremony Aug. ...


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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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  • Another slow commute following train collision

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut commuters faced another morning of longer-than-normal delays on the highways leading to New York, as workers finished up repairs on the Metro-North railroad following last week’s train collision near ...

  • Some UMass Memorial nurses plan to strike

    WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Nurses at UMass Memorial Medical Center-University Campus are planning a strike after the latest round of contract talks failed to result in a ...

  • Investigators probe Boston suburb in Marathon bombing

    Boston Marathon bombings want to know what attracted the Tsarnaev brothers to the Massachusetts suburb of Watertown, authorities said. Law enforcement officials told ABC News it is clear the brothers had connections in Watertown because they headed there days after the April 15 attack. A parking ticket obtained by ABC News was issued to a car registered to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Feb. 18, 2011, on ...

  • Harvard-MITs EdX adds 15 schools

    EdX, the $60M online learning partnership founded last year by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has added 15 schools, more than doubling its membership at a stroke. The Harvard Crimson reported the deal Tuesday. "The 15 schools span the globe, with six additions from Asia, five in the United States, three from Europe, and one from Australia," the Crimson ...

  • How you can help tornado victims

    Search and rescue crews worked through the night after a monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburbs, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of splintered ...

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