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  • Putin refutes allegation he stole Super Bowl ring Putin refutes allegation he stole Super Bowl ring

    MOSCOW - Robert K. Kraft, an American business magnate and New England Patriots football team owner, has alleged that Vladimir Putin took away his Super Bowl ring in 2005, an accusation that has sparked a minor international controversy The Russian president however denied the allegation about the diamond-encrusted sporting prize that he says was gifted to him by the football team ...

  • Third line push Bruins into drivers seat

    Boston Bruins left wing Daniel Paille (20) celebrates his goal against the Chicago Blackhawks with center Tyler Seguin (19) during the second period in Game 3 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals in Boston, Monday, June 17, 2013. (Charles ...

  • Proposed trade could see Celtics send Rivers Garnett to Clippers

    Boston Celtics head coach Doc Rivers directs his team from the bench in the second half of their NBA basketball game against the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012, in New York. Boston won 93-76. (John ...

  • Rask shuts out Chicago to give Bruins 2-1 edge

    Zdeno Chara, left,of the Boston Bruins and Chicago’s Bryan Bickell are separated by officials late in Game 3 Monday in Boston. The Bruins won ...

  • Patrice Bergeron May Be Mr. Perfect And Other Leftover Bruins Thoughts

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Movie Review

Frost/Nixon

Frost/Nixon

When British talk show host David Frost interviewed disgraced ex-President Richard Nixon on television in 1977, it was viewed by many as the trial that Nixon never had. And, while he didnt go so far as to admit criminal guilt, Nixon did concede his involvement in a cover up and said that ... ...

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  • Doc Bombing victims’ rehab just begun

    Boston Marathon bombing victim Roseann Sdoia and her bionic leg head to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital this week, where the determined real estate executive will learn how to climb stairs and sit down with her new micro-processer-equipped right foot."The marathon of taking care of people has just begun," Spaulding’s Dr. David M. Crandall said yesterday, two months after the ...

  • Old pal Johnny gets last laugh at Bulger

    For a 72-year-old guy who’s admitted killing the equivalent of the roster of a minor league baseball team over three decades, Johnny Martorano’s hair is, amazingly, as brown as mine was when I graduated high school in 1967 - a time when his death toll stood at only a couple of people.The great thing about watching this henchman’s testimony on a high-def closed circuit feed from ...

  • Dad ID’d teen accused in bleach attack cops say

    Prosecutors have accused a 22-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl of teaming up to beat, rob and throw bleach in the face of a T bus passenger - and cops say the teen’s own alarmed father turned in his daughter after he recognized her in surveillance images.Lai-Lawnnie Douglas, 22, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Roxbury District Court to charges of unarmed robbery, mayhem, destruction ...

  • Hit man’s testimony shock to victims’ kin

    Among the dozens of spectators who listened in rapt shock yesterday as John Martorano walked through a prolific hit man’s work history of murder after murder was a woman who said she is a sister of Paul and Donald McGonagle - two of the 19 people James "Whitey" Bulger is accused of killing."I can’t get over it," she said of the shocking testimony."What is ...

  • Mob book fan seeking 
autograph written off

    A phalanx of U.S. Marshals made sure John "The Executioner" Martorano and former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger were kept at a safe distance yesterday - but a fan of gangland history was able to slip by.During the morning break in Courtroom 11 in federal court in Boston, a South Shore man was able to get within arm’s reach of the witness stand to ask Martorano to sign a ...

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