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Chris Kreider Overtime Goal Keeps Rangers Alive Cuts Bruins Lead To 3-1
Chris Kreider #20 of the New York Rangers celebrates after he scored the game-winning goal in overtime against goalie Tuukka Rask #40 of the Boston Bruins to give the Rangers a 4-3 win in Game Four of the Eastern Conference Semifinals during the 2013 NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs at Madison Square Garden on May 23, 2013 in New York ...
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Senate votes to establish Cellucci ALS Registry
BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Senate has voted to establish a Department of Public Health ALS registry named after former Gov. Paul ...
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Bruins bad in big way
NEW YORK - The only way the Rangers were going to avoid being swept last night was if the Bruins fell down on the job.And did they ever - literally, figuratively, every way.What was your lowlight from last night? Was it Bruins goaltender Tuukka Rask tripping on the ice as a dribbler slid Buckner-esque by him and into the net? Was it Zdeno Chara allowing the Rangers’ Derek Stepan to sneak ...
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Time in Boston Short but sweet to Mike Aviles
Mike Aviles’ career with the Red Sox probably won’t go down in the annals of team history.But as Aviles was slipping on his Cleveland uniform for his first game back at Fenway Park last night before the Red Sox and Indians played the opener of a four-game set, he reminisced about his feelings when his run with Sox was done. His time with the Red Sox was short - a year and a half - ...
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State Senate passes $33.9 billion budget
The state Senate voted 36 to 3 Thursday night to approve a $33.99 billlion budget for fiscal 2014, adding $68.4 million in spending to the plan over the course of two days of ...
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Rask Chara And Co. Didn’t Deserve Game 4 Win And Other Leftover Bruins Thoughts
BOSTON (CBS) — Sure, the Bruins very nearly pulled off a Game 4 victory, but did they really deserve it? They literally handed a goal to a dead, desperate team in front of a listless home crowd to completely change the environment late in the second period. The Bruins had just taken a 2-0 lead, and tweets about the Rangers’ summer plans immediately began to fill the Internet void. ...
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Friend implicated Boston bomber in 2011 triple murder before being shot dead by FBI
File photo of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. An alleged friend of Tsarnaev, Ibragim Todashev, was shot and killed by police early Wednesday when he became violent during questioning by the ...
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Fugitive rapist to spend up to 40 years in prison
A man who fled and lived a secret life in Maine after being convicted of raping three South Shore teenagers in 1978 will spend most of the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced yesterday, more than three decades after the crimes.Gary Allen Irving, 52, captured March 27 by members of the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section at his Gorham, Maine, home, was ...
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Travelers get help for Memorial Day
Motorists stuck in traffic as they head off for Memorial Day weekend getaways will see something new on many of the state’s most congested highways today: digital message boards telling them how many more miles and minutes to major points.Nearly 50 new signs providing real-time traffic information are being introduced to the Mass Pike (from Logan airport to Sturbridge), Route 3 (from ...
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Casino stance hurts Daniel F. Conley in crucial Eastie
A key political power broker in the battleground neighborhood of East Boston has yanked his support for Daniel F. Conley’s mayoral bid after the district attorney called for a citywide vote that was seen as a threat to the Suffolk Downs casino bid."He was my guy, but right now I’m just putting it on ice," said state Rep. Carlo Basile, who last month endorsed Conley and ...
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Whitey’s attorney We won’t be bullied
In a blistering response to federal prosecutors’ demands that James "Whitey" Bulger’s lawyers stop speaking to the press, ?J.W. Carney Jr. fought back by ?listing a host of recent presidential scandals, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s struggles in Boston and a quote from Thomas ?Jefferson."A federal government with ?unchecked power poses a threat to every freedom ...
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Prosecutors Jailhouse phone calls detail gang hit
Among the 1,174 pieces of evidence prosecutors plan to present against James "Whitey" ?Bulger are transcripts of telephone conversations the Southie mobster had while in the Plymouth County House of Correction about the orchestrated gang hit on Edward Connors, according to a list of exhibits federal prosecutors revealed yesterday.Connors, an ex-boxer and ?Savin Hill bar owner, ...
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Experts weigh political correctness role in terror
The Boston Marathon bombings and the butchering of a British soldier, attributed to terrorism suspects who had already faced official scrutiny, are further proof of how hard it is for free societies to stop small-scale jihadist offensives, security experts say, but critics say law enforcement is handicapping itself with excessive political correctness.Critics point to the blackballing of ...
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Sex offender crackdown clears Senate
The Senate pushed through a budget amendment yesterday that would make Level 2 predators’ names public, and give the state’s Sex Offender Registry Board the power to reclassify offenders without new convictions."This was (about) time," Senate President Therese Murray said of pushing reforms through budget amendments. "I think it’s really important to act in a ...
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Calling experts to testify cost taxpayers $100000
Public defenders seeking to keep convicted sex offenders’ identities secret spent nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money last year on expert testimony - a strategy pushed in a widely circulated handbook advising attorneys on how to beat the state’s registry, a Herald review found.The review comes as the Senate yesterday approved a measure to add the names of Level 2 predators to the Sex ...
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Education Department giving Newtown $1.3 million
WASHINGTON (AP) - Schools in Newtown, Conn., will receive $1.3 million in federal aid to recover after the shootings that left 26 students and educators dead last ...
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Stark overtones in 2011 Waltham triple homicide
A grisly triple homicide in Waltham 18 months ago was widely assumed to be a drug deal gone bad and all but gone from the public view. But it is now in the spotlight again, as an international incident with links to the alleged Boston Marathon bombers, a man shot in Orlando, Fla., this week, and a world of extreme violence they ...
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Marathon bombings take center stage at Boston poetry slam
In a packed theater on Huntington Avenue, high school students, teachers, and spectators gathered to cheer each other on and compete for the first place prize in the "Louder than a Bomb" poetry slam ...
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Fenway Center plans satisfy concerned DOT board member
A state transportation board member who interrupted a presentation Wednesday with a call to postpone a vote on a $500 million megadevelopment said in an interview Thursday that she is now ready to approve an agreement allowing Fenway Center construction to ...
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Boston to Cape Cod rail service after a long hiatus to return on Friday
On the last Friday of June 1984, Governor Michael S. Dukakis smashed a bottle of champagne on another train, the first to depart Boston bound for Cape Cod in nearly two decades, and declared it "the Spirit of ...
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N.H. Senate passes bill legalizing medical marijuana
CONCORD, N.H. - New Hampshire could soon join 18 other states and the District of Columbia in allowing seriously ill people to use marijuana in their medical ...
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Boston teachers receive high ratings stirring concern about rigor of evaluations
The Boston Public Schools has rated 92 percent of all teachers as proficient or exemplary under a new evaluation system, according to a School Department analysis that officials held up as evidence that most students are receiving quality instruction in the ...
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Red Sox hammered by Franconas Indians at Fenway
Bourn throws out Ellsbury at the plate BOSTON -- Of course, Terry Francona was going to feel at home in Thursday's return to Fenway Park, where he had managed for eight seasons, some of them glory years in Red Sox history. Far more stunning was the way Francona's new team, the Cleveland Indians, made Fenway Park look like their own backyard with a steady stream of hard hits. In a ...
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Game 4 Rangers 4 Bruins 3 Lucky Bounce Helps Keep Brooms Away for Rangers
Carl Hagelin, right, scored in the second period as Bruins goalie Tuukka Rask stumbled Thursday. The goal closed the Bruins' lead to 2-1 in the second period after a scoreless ...
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Stubbs Reynolds lead Indians to 12-3 win over Sox
Cleveland Indians manager Terry Francona, left, is surrounded by members of the media in the visitor's dugout before a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park in Boston, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Francona was Red Sox manager for the 2004 and 2007 World Series Championship seasons. (AP Photo/Charles ...
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Boston Marathon is a multi-faceted event
The Boston Marathon is a serious opportunity for professional marathon runners to prove themselves and for recreational runners to prove to themselves that they can do it. There is also the philanthropic side to the marathon though, with people taking part to make a difference.
Boston is gearing up to once again hold the annual Boston Marathon of 2010. The marathon was first held in 1987, and is a seminal event in the calendar of any serious marathon runner. Athletes from around the world have been training for the big day, and Boston will be visited by 20,000 professional and amateur runners for the event. Read more
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