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  • Callahan Tunnel to close for months during rehab project

    The tunnel, which carries traffic from Boston's North End to Logan International Airport and Route 1A in East Boston, will shut down beginning in January 2014, according to the Massachusetts Department of ...

  • Alleged bomber mistakenly called victim at gun control rally

    Organizers of an out-of-state pro-gun control group said it was a mistake that Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was included on a list of 6,000 recent victims of gun violence read at a Concord rally Tuesday ...

  • 5 things we learned in Bruins Game 4 loss

    Chicago Blackhawks left wing Brandon Saad, center, celebrates a goal by Blackhawks center Michal Handzus, right, in front of Boston Bruins defenseman Zdeno Chara (33) during the first period in Game 4 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals, Wednesday, June 19, 2013, in ...

  • Official Gandolfini likely had heart attack

    The body of the actor was transferred to the morgue at the Policlinico Umberto I hospital in Rome early Thursday, where it awaited an autopsy. By law, medical examiners in Italy are required to carry out the postmortem 24 hours after the body's arrival in the morgue, a hospital spokesman said. Professor Claudio Modini, head of the emergency department where the actor was taken, said he ...

  • DA seeks publics help in Hernandez case

    Homicide investigators are asking for the public's help in tracking down a "silver mirror cover" that may have broken off a car that's linked to the death of a Dorchester man found Monday not far from the North Attleboro home of Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez.The cover (similar to the one shown at right) "may be visible along a route of travel between Dorchester and ...


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Movie Review

The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) [DVD]

The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) [DVD]

The title of Akira Kurosawas The Bad Sleep Well (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) evokes with perfect clarity the films cynical view of banal evil run amok in the modern world. While the good suffer and struggle to do what is right, the bad sleep in comfort, knowing no ... ...

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  • 2 dead in New Haven gas station wreck

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - New Haven police say two people died and another was injured when a car crashed into a city gas station at a high rate of ...

  • Vt. officials investigate fish kill in lake

    LEICESTER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont state agencies are investigating whether a pesticide sprayed to control mosquitoes caused a fish kill in a ...

  • Vt. man accused of choking child

    BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont man has been accused of choking an 8-year-old child three times has been arrested on assault and obstruction of justice ...

  • Former Searsport teacher wont face retrial

    SEARSPORT, Maine (AP) - Prosecutors have decided not to retry a former Searsport elementary school teacher whose conviction on charges he sexually abused a 12-year-old were overturned by the state’s highest ...

  • RI Senate approves bill on preventing child abuse

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The state Senate has approved a bill that would require public schools in Rhode Island to teach children how to protect themselves against child sexual abuse and ...

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