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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. ...
Bruins Blow Third-Period Lead Lose To Rangers In Overtime In Game 4

NEW YORK (AP) Chris Kreider proudly wore the Broadway Hat in the victorious New York Rangers dressing room as he tried to describe the feeling of saving his team's ...
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 ...
Travelers get help for Memorial Day

Motorists stuck in traffic as they head off for Memorial Day weekend getaways will see something new on many of the state’s most congested highways today: digital message boards telling them how many more miles and minutes to major points.Nearly 50 new signs providing real-time traffic information are being introduced to the Mass Pike (from Logan airport to Sturbridge), Route 3 (from ...

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Ron Sheltons Bull Durham is the rare sports movie that understands the appeal of sports, but never feels the need to boil everything down to a big game. There are discussions of winning and losing in the film--many of them, in fact--but they are treated like most things in life, wh ... ...

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Casino stance hurts Daniel F. Conley in crucial Eastie

A key political power broker in the battleground neighborhood of East Boston has yanked his support for Daniel F. Conley’s mayoral bid after the district attorney called for a citywide vote that was seen as a threat to the Suffolk Downs casino bid."He was my guy, but right now I’m just putting it on ice," said state Rep. Carlo Basile, who last month endorsed Conley and ...
Whitey’s attorney We won’t be bullied

In a blistering response to federal prosecutors’ demands that James "Whitey" Bulger’s lawyers stop speaking to the press, ?J.W. Carney Jr. fought back by ?listing a host of recent presidential scandals, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s struggles in Boston and a quote from Thomas ?Jefferson."A federal government with ?unchecked power poses a threat to every freedom ...
Prosecutors Jailhouse phone calls detail gang hit

Among the 1,174 pieces of evidence prosecutors plan to present against James "Whitey" ?Bulger are transcripts of telephone conversations the Southie mobster had while in the Plymouth County House of Correction about the orchestrated gang hit on Edward Connors, according to a list of exhibits federal prosecutors revealed yesterday.Connors, an ex-boxer and ?Savin Hill bar owner, ...
Experts weigh political correctness role in terror

The Boston Marathon bombings and the butchering of a British soldier, attributed to terrorism suspects who had already faced official scrutiny, are further proof of how hard it is for free societies to stop small-scale jihadist offensives, security experts say, but critics say law enforcement is handicapping itself with excessive political correctness.Critics point to the blackballing of ...
Sex offender crackdown clears Senate

The Senate pushed through a budget amendment yesterday that would make Level 2 predators’ names public, and give the state’s Sex Offender Registry Board the power to reclassify offenders without new convictions."This was (about) time," Senate President Therese Murray said of pushing reforms through budget amendments. "I think it’s really important to act in a ...

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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. ...