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    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Childhood ADHD linked to obesity in adults

    "I think it's what we expect and know because we know that kids who have ADHD are more at-risk for problems with eating and disordered eating and kids that have disordered eating are more likely to be overweight and obese," said Dr. Sarah Lappe, of the Cleveland ...

  • Missing students boyfriend faces murder charge

    Thirty-year-old Jermaine Richards was scheduled to make his first court appearance Monday. Alyssiah Wiley's remains were identified on Saturday after a cadaver sniffing dog found them in a wooded area of Trumbull on Friday. Police say they recovered more evidence from Richards' home, and he surrendered to police after a warrant was issued for his arrest. Police say Richards and Wiley ...

  • Gov. warns of extremely challenging commute after train collision

    Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy has a suggestion for commuters who manage to make it to work in New York City from southwest Connecticut: You might want to stay put in the Big Apple -- all ...

  • Tornadoes slam several states 300 homes hit

    But the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...


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Fatal Attraction [DVD]

It was William Congreve who wrote in his first play, 1693's The Old Bachelor, "Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." That now-infamous line--turned into an axiom after 300 years of repetition--may have derived from a comedy, but taken by itself, Congreve might as well have been writing about the premise of Adrian Lyne's Fatal Attraction ...

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  • Patch work plan in place to replace train service

    BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Metro-North officials have a fleet of 120 busses ready at the Bridgeport train station to help rail commuters make their way around the scene of Friday’s train accident and help get them get to New ...

  • Visiting MIT scientist killed while riding bike

    MIT said in a statement that Miura had been at the university since the fall and worked at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence ...

  • Warwick police to identify body found in park

    The body of a white male in his 60s was found in a trash barrel along a bike path in the park on Saturday. Police say the barrel had been covered with ...

  • Retired US Supreme Court justice features in forum

    BOSTON - The JFK Museum and Library is hosting a forum that will feature retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.The Monday afternoon event in Boston will include a discussion of Stevens' career on the bench and his view of the American legal system.President Gerald Ford nominated Stevens to the court, and he served from 1975 to 2010.He also wrote a memoir about his time on the ...

  • Winslow Homer studio tours to begin June 23

    SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) - The Portland Museum of Art has announced the dates for its summer tours of the Winslow Homer studio in ...

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