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  • Fla. man killed by FBI was questioned about Boston bombings

    According to sister station WFTV in Orlando, gunshots rang out just before midnight at an apartment complex.Authorities said a suspect, whose name was not released, was shot and killed.A man claiming to be the suspect's friend told WFTV reporter Steve Barrett that the man was being questioned by investigators about the Boston bombings. However, authorities have not confirmed that ...

  • Cape man accused of selling fake Viagra

    David Nailen, 45, was indicted on four counts of trafficking in drugs. The indictment alleges that between March and October 2012, Nailen sold counterfeit tablets that were similar or indistinguishable from Pfizer, Inc.'s pharmaceutical drug Viagra on the Internet, on Craigslist and in person, ...

  • One Fund Marathon victims procrastinating

    The administrator of the Boston Marathon victims' compensation fund says so far just five people have filed applications for a portion of the $30 million the One Fund has already ...

  • Boston Amtrak service returns to normal

    Commuter rail service from Connecticut to New York City, along with Amtrak service between Boston and New York, was back on schedule on one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled ...

  • 200 evacuated as church goes up in flames

    "We started the evacuation of the apartment very early in the operation because of the amount of fire. We had everyone get out of the rear section of the building and along the right side, and then we went to work on the church," Lynn Fire Chief Jim McDonald ...


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Metallica: Some Kind of Monster [DVD]

Metallica: Some Kind of Monster [DVD]

Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky have a way of making something extraordinary out of virtually nothing in their documentary films, and one has to wonder if the metal band Metallica had an inkling of this when they asked Berlinger and Sinofsky to film them cutting a new album in e ... ...

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  • FBI agent fatally shoots man connected to Boston bombers report

    An FBI agent was involved in a fatal shooting overnight in Orlando, Florida with a suspect connected to Boston Marathon bombers, according to a new report.Ibragim Todashev, who was being interviewed by about his connections to Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, attacked the agent and was ...

  • What Pharmacist Conscientious Objectors Might Learn From Boston Bombing Suspects Nurses

    Florence Nightingale from Carte de Visite (Photo credit: Wikipedia) I can't imagine being placed in this situation. After caring for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, nurses at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital were called upon to care for one more patient: the surviving bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Liz Kowalcyzk reported ...

  • Report FBI kills man during questioning over marathon attack

    A 27-year-old Orlando, Fla., man was shot and killed during a gunfight with the FBI overnight after being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing, WESH TV is reporting today.The Orlando station reports a friend said the man -- not being named by the Herald -- was confronted by federal agents in relation to the April 15 Boston bombing because he was a mixed marital arts fighter who may have ...

  • Forms are just 1 click away ... right here

    An award from The One Fund Boston is a tax-free "gift," said charity boss Kenneth Feinberg.And that gift can be ?obtained by filling out a few simple forms and submitting them by June 15.Today the Herald is posting all One ?Fund forms at boston?herald.com to assist families who lost loved ones in the attacks and for the 260-plus injured in the marathon twin ...

  • Service set after man dies day after wedding

    CANTON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - A memorial service is this weekend for a newly married Detroit-area youth minister who was killed in a traffic accident as he and his wife were en route to their honeymoon in Myrtle Beach, ...

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