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  • Brewery develops new beer dedicated to slain cop

    A Massachusetts brewing company is creating a beer in the honour of a hero cop, Sean Collier, who was allegedly gunned down by the Boston Marathon bombers. According to the Cambridge Brewing Company, 'Collier Stout' -a dry Irish stout- will hit bars by mid June and 1 dollar from every sale will go to Collier's memorial fund, the New York Post reported. Collier's friend Travis Dixon told the ...

  • Winning ticket for huge Powerball jackpot sold in Florida

    By Becky Bratu, Staff Writer, NBC News Do you have the lucky ticket? A winner for the huge Powerball jackpot was sold at a supermarket in Zephyrhills, Fla., a Florida Lottery official confirmed to NBC News early ...

  • Sox hope resurgent offense powers them to sweep

    The Red Sox's all-or-nothing offense has seemed to hold much more potential energy than anything else over the past few weeks, with outbursts occasional but consistency lacking. After scoring 135 runs in April, fourth most in the Majors, they've fallen to the middle of the pack during May. Manager John Farrell said his team's luck may just be evening out. And yet even at its ...

  • Crash derails travel plans

    Derailed train passengers were scrambling yesterday to make alternate travel plans after two packed commuter trains collided outside Bridgeport, Conn., injuring 72 people and smashing the rail lines that serve one of the nation’s busiest transit corridors.With Amtrak suspending train service indefinitely between Boston and New York, travelers at South Station were looking for bus routes ...

  • Nightmare for Arlington kids club

    A former Arlington Boys & Girls Club program director, arrested Friday at his New York home, returned in shackles to Massachusetts last night to face charges he sexually assaulted five young children while working at the youth organization in the late 1970s and until mid-1980, when he left the Bay State, according to authorities.Paul A. Collins, 62, is expected to be arraigned tomorrow in ...


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Savage Grace

Savage Grace

Rarely has a film lived up to its marketing hook so thoroughly. Rest assured that Savage Grace, Tom Kalins provocative but frustratingly shallow true-life portrait of a wealthy American familys interpersonal debauchery, proves quite convincingly that Truth is more shocking than f ... ...

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  • Hingham’s Police Memorial Day

    In honor of Police Officers Memorial Day, a wreath was presented to the Police Department on behalf of Hingham’s veterans director, the Veterans Council, and the Hingham VFW. From left, vice chairman of Hingham Veterans Council, Robert Beal Jr., Selectwoman Irma Lauter, director of veterans services Keith Jermyn, Deputy Police Chief Glenn Olsson, and commander of Hingham VFW Post No. 6053 ...

  • The Boston Marathon wounded Karen Rand

    The Boston Marathon bombing tore from Karen Rand her best friend, Krystle Campbell, and her left leg. She remembers everything, talks about it none of it, but still has her sense of ...

  • Baby American eels providing huge profits and big headaches in Maine

    BREWER, Maine - A tiny translucent eel that sells for nearly $2,000 a pound has created a modern gold rush along Maine’s rivers and streams, generating millions of dollars for once-struggling fishermen, a surge in illegal fishing, and a debate about how long the economic boom can - or should - ...

  • From neglected mill site a park rises

    Moving to the area for her husband’s job, Weichman found their house on the Internet. With barely enough time to check out the backyard, she didn’t know that the property, near the junction of Routes 3 and 62, abutted a long-neglected but richly historical 17th-century mill ...

  • Longtime news anchor is set to get diploma from Tufts Sunday

    He traveled around the world to cover stories and met a producer who became his wife. He went on to be come one of the first African-Americans to become a regular local news anchor in Boston, at WCVB-TV, where he was known for his for his personable, straightforward ...

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