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  • FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects FBI kill Florida man known to Boston bombing suspects

    MIAMI - A man known to the Boston Marathon bombers was shot and killed Wednesday by an Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agent after he turned violent during questioning, the investigating agency said. The Orlando Sentinel newspaper identified the man as Ibragim Todashev, 27. He was killed in the early morning incident in Orlando, Florida. The FBI said the shooting occurred in Orlando, ...

  • Dead Boston bomber involved in 2011 slayings Report

    Deceased Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in a 2011 gruesome triple murder outside Boston along with a Chechen killed during a confrontation with law enforcement officers, according to media reports. Ibragim Todashev was fatally shot early Wednesday during an interview with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, CNN reported citing a federal ...

  • Boston bombing probe Man shot dead by FBI

    An FBI agent shot and killed a 27-year-old alleged friend of slain Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Florida, a day after questioning him as part of the investigation into the April 15 attack, media reports said. The victim, identified as Ibragim Todashev, was shot at a condominium complex Wednesday in Orlando, Florida. The FBI confirmed a man died while one of its agents ...

  • Witness tied to Boston bombing suspect killed by FBI

    Twenty-seven-year-old Ibragim Todashev was shot and killed early Wednesday morning while being interrogated by police and intelligence officials in an Orlando, Florida, apartment. Todashev, a friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and, like Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen, was reportedly being questioned by a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent from the FBI's Boston field ...

  • Slain Russian ‘intimidated’ neighbors

    Former Cambridge neighbors of a Russian mixed martial arts ?brawler shot dead by an FBI agent early yesterday in Florida - after ?being questioned about his ties to ?the marathon bombing and a Waltham triple murder - said he was nasty.Ibragim Todashev, 27, also hung around with slain marathon bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26 - swilling beer and eating chicken on a stoop on Harding ...


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Serenity

Serenity

Having never watched Joss Whedons short-lived 2002 TV series Firefly, I have no basis from which to judge its big-screen incarnation Serenity except as a stand-alone movie, and in that respect it works quite well. Knowing as I do that it is an extension of a TV series, and theref ... ...

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  • Annie Dookhan-sprung drug defendant caught in bust

    A convicted Dookhan-defendant coke pusher - sprung in the state drug-lab scandal last October and relieved of his GPS monitoring bracelet a month later - made a tearful but futile plea for another break yesterday after he was indicted in Tuesday’s "H-block" drug bust."I’m in barber school," said a sobbing Adam Hayes, 30, as he asked Suffolk Superior Trial Court ...

  • Bruin’s cup runneth over 
– with playoffs wedding

    The Stanley Cup playoffs are just part of a hectic mix for rookie Boston Bruins defenseman Torey Krug - he’s also tying the knot July 5. But fiancee Melanie Flood said Krug can take the run for NHL glory and impending nuptials in stride."He handles pressure so well," said Flood, the blond beauty Krug met at Michigan State University. "The only time I’ve ever seen him ...

  • Fund czar expects ‘surge’ in bombing victim claims

    The city is rallying behind Kenneth Feinberg’s call to alert Boston Marathon bombing victims to apply on time for their share of $31 million in tax-free charity from The One Fund Boston.Volunteers stepped forward yesterday to offer legal help and services to those wounded in the heartless attacks."I’m not concerned yet," Feinberg told the Herald last night. "In my ...

  • Worcester state rep calls it quits

    WORCESTER - State Rep. John Fresolo yesterday stepped down from office under a cloud of scandal - but House Speaker Robert A. DeLeo insisted the Worcester Democrat jumped and wasn’t pushed."No member or officer of the House of Representatives pressured John Fresolo to resign," said Seth Gitell, a DeLeo spokesman. "His resignation was not the product of ...

  • Feds push for Bulger informant files DNA tests

    Federal prosecutors want James "Whitey" Bulger’s FBI informant files as well as dozens of pages of DNA tests used to establish the identity of five of Bulger’s alleged victims to become evidence as the gangster’s trial nears, according to court filings yesterday.Prosecutors want the informant files collected by corrupt ex-FBI agent John Connolly on Bulger and Stephen ...

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