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Biogen Idec taps Harvard professor as new CSO
Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas has been named to the position of chief scientific officer at Biogen after serving in the role for about a year. Weston, Mass.-based Biogen Idec (Nasdaq:BIIB) has named Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas, a professor at Harvard Medical School, as its permanent chief scientific officer, a position in which hes served on an interim basis for about a year. Artavanis-Tsakonas was ...
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Fallen military heroes honored on Boston Common
More than 300 volunteers from the Massachusetts Military Heroes Fund began planting 33,000 flags on the common Wednesday at the Sailors and Soldiers Monument near Charles and Beacon Streets. Additional volunteers will watch over the flags throughout the ...
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Nader loses appeal of 04 ballots in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine -; Ralph Nader has lost his bid to punish Democrats he has accused of trying to keep him off ballots in Maine during his failed presidential run in ...
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5 arrested in Conn. $4M jewelry heist kidnapping
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -; Authorities say five people have been arrested in the robbery of $4 million in jewelry from a Connecticut store in an elaborate heist that began with the kidnapping of store employees more than 40 miles ...
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Francona On Gresh Zo ‘A Lot Of Good Times’ In Boston
BOSTON (CBS) - Terry Francona will return to Fenway Park on Thursday night, but this time he'll be in visitors' dugout for the first time. Francona and his first-place Cleveland Indians open a four-game set with the Red Sox on Thursday night, Francona's first time back as an opposing manager after spending eight years in the Boston dugout. "If I said that I wasn't ...
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33000 Flags On Boston Common Honor State’s Fallen Heroes
BOSTON (CBS) -An American flag for every fallen hero in the state of Massachusetts - 33,000 since the Civil War - now sits on Boston ...
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Mass. Tech Collaborative launches program to advance states e-health record exchange
Pam Goldberg, CEO of the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative Now that the Massachusetts Health Information exchange (MassHIway), an exchange allowing for e-health information to be shared between health care providers and organizations, is up and running, one group is hoping to advance its interoperability. The Massachusetts eHealth Institute at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative ...
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NH Senate rejects 12 cent gas diesel tax increase
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) -- A day after the House rejected the Senate's casino bill, the Senate voted Thursday to kill the House's plan to fix highways by phasing in a 12-cent increase in the gas and diesel tax and blocked any discussion of the tax in budget negotiations with the House next ...
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Marathon bomb suspect Tsarnaev’s first court appearance set July 10
The first time the public will catch a glimpse of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be July 10 - nearly three months after the Cambridge teen and his late brother are accused of setting off two shrapnel-packed pressure-cooker bombs in Copley Square, killing three spectators and injuring more than 260 others.U.S. District Court Judge Marianne B. Bowler set the date for ...
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Lawrence city clerk charged with drunken driving
Lawrence’s longtime city clerk is stepping out from behind the counter and into a district courtroom today, where he’ll answer to charges he was driving drunk last night when he crashed into the car of a couple who tried to get out of his way.William J. Maloney, 56, failed both a Breathalyzer and field sobriety tests administered by police officers, Lawrence Police Chief John Romero ...
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Prosecutors ask judge to stop Bulger lawyers’ press conferences
Federal prosecutors trying James "Whitey" Bulger next month on murder and racketeering charges are pleading with the judge to keep their war of words with the mobster confined to the courtroom by slapping a gag order on his lawyers when they step outside it.Enraged by comments the defense team made late yesterday following a status hearing at U.S. District Court, and accusing the ...
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Federal prosecutors seek gag order on attorneys for James ‘Whitey’ Bulger
James "Whitey" Bulger stop engaging in "media grandstanding'' and spreading "false facts" outside the US District Court in Boston, where Bulger is facing charges he participated in 19 murders. In a six-page request filed today, US Attorney Carmen Ortiz's office asked Judge Denise J. Casper to impose a gag order on J.W. Carney Jr. and Henry Brennan, the ...
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Rangers scratch Richards for pivotal Game 4
NEW YORK (AP) - Struggling Rangers center Brad Richards said he will be a healthy scratch when New York faces elimination in Game 4 against the Boston Bruins on Thursday ...
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States to NRC Better nuclear waste rules needed
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont, New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut are petitioning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a more thorough review of issues connected with storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste at plant ...
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Lowell man charged with firing gun at undercover officer
A 24-year-old Lowell man is facing charges for shooting at an undercover Lowell police detective at least five times Wednesday night, officials said. Ccshron Arthur Brown is to be arraigned today at Middlesex District Court for firing at Detective Nathan Bowler. Bowler was undercover, conducting surveillance of Brown and three others around 7 p.m. in connection with a breaking and entering from ...
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ESPN hires sports radio host Paul Finebaum
ESPN announced Thursday that Finebaum will host a daily radio show from Charlotte, N.C., starting in August. He will also make appearances on other platforms for the ...
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Alkermes posts fourth quarter gains changes fiscal year
Alkermes CEO Richard Pops Just weeks after biopharmaceutical company Alkermes plc (Nasdaq: ALKS) released positive preliminary results of a Phase 2 clinical study of its drug to treat major depressive disorder, the Waltham, Mass. and Dublin-based company released even stronger fourth quarter results for its fiscal year ended March 31. The company, which says it will change its fiscal year-end ...
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Florida FBI Shooting May Be Linked to Boston Area Triple Slaying
U.S. news reports say a Chechen man killed in an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that may have been connected to dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan ...
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Vt. denies certification for health co-op
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The state of Vermont has rejected the application of a newly formed health care cooperative that had wanted to offer health insurance as part of the federal health care reform plan. The Vermont health Co-op was formed last fall to sell health insurance beginning next year, but it must receive both state and federal approval. But Vermont Department of Financial Regulation ...
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Project would carry NY power to Mass. via Vt.
COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) - A Massachusetts developer is hoping to carry renewable electricity from northern New York to the New England power grid via a power line that would run under Lake Champlain. The proposal by the company called Anbaric Transmission would carry 400 megawatts of electricity from Plattsburgh, N.Y., under the lake to Vermont. Anbaric CEO Ed Krapels says utilities in ...
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Boston Chamber Of Commerce Paul Guzzi On Stock Market Tim Murray
BOSTON (CBS) - Paul Guzzi, the president-CEO of the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, talks to WBZ NewsRadio 1030′s Joe Mathieu every Thursday. This week's segment covers the stock market, consumer confidence, Tim Murray’s new job, and the ten outstanding young ...
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Clean Harbors stands by to help with Oklahoma tornadoes
Clean Harbors is on standby and may be deployed to assist in the clean up of the damage, shown here at Plaza Elementary School, caused by the Oklahoma tornadoes. Norwell, Mass.-based environmental management firm Clean Harbors (NYSE:CLH) is on standby in the efforts to clean up Mondays devastation in Oklahoma from tornadoes that killed 24 and caused millions of dollars in damage. Jim Buckley, ...
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IHT Rendezvous Questions in London Killing Echo Boston Bombing
the brutal killing of an off-duty soldier on a London street echoed many of the questions raised after the Boston marathon bombing just five weeks before. Were the suspects "lone wolves" or part of a wider conspiracy? Were they radicalized Islamists or disaffected locals? Were they motivated by events overseas or mouthing the rhetoric of someone else’s fight? Two suspects were ...
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Foxborough man gets 5 years on DUI conviction
WORCESTER, Mass. -- A Foxborough man has been sentenced to five years in prison for what prosecutors say was his 15th drunken driving conviction.But a lawyer for 65-year-old Kenneth Norman said in court on Wednesday that his client has a heart condition and the five-year sentence is as good as a death sentence. He noted that Norman had never hurt anyone.Norman was found guilty this week of ...
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Democrats say Maine gov moving out of Capitol
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine Democratic legislative leaders say Gov. Paul LePage is threatening to move his office space out of the State House by July ...
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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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