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  • Stockpile of high-grade fireworks found at city business

    More than 100 boxes of high-grade fireworks, which were illegal and improperly stored, were found at Metropolitan Motors at 1661 Hyde Park Ave., police ...

  • Pats Hernandez questioned after associate found dead

    Massachusetts State Police searched the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Tuesday evening in connection with a possible homicide after a man's body was found near his North Attleborough ...

  • State trooper shoots man near Salem fires

    State police say that while firefighters were putting out the blaze, neighbors reported seeing a distraught man in a field near the fires. Capt. Thomas Garbedian of the state police says the man acted more irrationally when a trooper approached him, and the trooper shot ...

  • 2 Vt. groups get money for housing advice

    MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Two Vermont community action agencies have won federal grants to help advise people on meeting their housing needs and avoiding foreclosures. The Central Vermont Community Action Council and Bennington-Rutland Opportunity Council will help people find housing, make more informed housing choices or keep their current homes. The money is part of $40 million in funding ...

  • Was TWA Flight 800 crash accidental

    Skeptics who have long theorized that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by sinister forces will get a fresh surge of energy when a new documentary attempts to disprove that the 1996 crash was ...


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Fast Five [Blu-Ray]

Fast Five [Blu-Ray]

At one point in Fast Five, the fifth entry in the unexpectedly long-lived car-crash-and-crime series started a decade ago by The Fast and the Furious (2001), one character describes another character as Old Testament: ... ...

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  • Deadline approaches to reach NH budget accord

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- Time is running out for House and Senate budget negotiators to reach accord on a spending plan for New Hampshire for the two years starting July ...

  • Maine man charged in teens death to be arraigned

    Twenty-year-old Kyle Dube (DOO'-bee), of Orono (OHR'-uh-noh) was indicted on murder and kidnapping charges in last month’s asphyxiation death of Nichole Cable. He was due to be arraigned Wednesday at the Penobscot Judicial ...

  • Congressional delegation hosts Experience NH

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - The state’s congressional delegation is hosting the fourth annual ‘‘Experience New Hampshire’’ reception in ...

  • Korean chefs learn all about Maine lobster

    During their five-day visit that began Monday, the chefs are getting a hands-on education about Maine’s signature seafood by going out on a lobster boat, touring processing plants and attending a lobster-cooking class and an industry ...

  • Sanders Vt. has high average student loan debt

    MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says a new report shows that the average student loan debt of college students in Vermont is higher than the amount in most other states. Sanders says only six other states had higher average student loan debt amounts. The independent senator says the report released from the Joint Economic Committee on Tuesday shows that 63% of college ...

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