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  • FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects

    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 ...

  • 2nd man arrested in fatal shooting tied to lab scandal

    A second man is under arrest in connection with the fatal shooting of a Brockton man, in a case that is tied to a statewide scandal that put suspect number one, Donta Hood, back on city streets, authorities ...

  • Rape victim who lived through attack recounts horror

    The woman, who was raped and shot multiple times but survived the 2009 attack, testified for nearly one hour in Brockton Superior Court on Wednesday, saying she thought she was going to die that day, ...


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  • UMass Memorial nurses reach contract deal

    WORCESTER - UMass Memorial Medical Center and the union representing 1,100 nurses have reached a tentative contract agreement that staves off a scheduled strike.The deal reached Wednesday with nurses at the hospital's University Campus means nurses will not strike on Thursday, as had been planned.The hospital and nurses agreed to a three-year contract that includes limits on the number of ...

  • Springfield police probe 2 homicides in 2 nights

    SPRINGFIELD - Springfield police are investigating the city's second homicide in two nights.Detective Capt. Thomas Trites tells The Republican that a man shot at about 10:30 p.m. Wednesday has died.The victim of that shooting was killed in the same Forest Park neighborhood as another man was fatally shot on Tuesday night. Police say the death of 30-year-old Fabian Pacheco in his apartment ...

  • Slain Russian Ibragim Todashev intimidated former neighbors

    Former Cambridge neighbors of a Russian mixed martial arts ?brawler shot dead by an FBI agent early yesterday in Florida - after ?being questioned about his ties to ?the marathon bombing and a Waltham triple murder - said he was nasty.Ibragim Todashev, 27, also hung around with slain marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 - swilling beer and eating chicken on a stoop on Harding ...

  • Former NH worker accused of stealing $600000

    CLAREMONT, N.H. (AP) - A New Hampshire company has sued a former employee, alleging she stole at least $600,000 from the business over several ...

  • RI paid millions to hedge-fund managers

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island paid hedge-fund managers almost $16 million in fees during 2012 to manage the state’s $1 billion hedge-fund ...

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