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NH Senate rejects 12 cent gas diesel tax hike
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire’s Senate has rejected phasing in a 12-cent hike in the gas and diesel tax to raise money to repair deteriorating roads and bridges and blocked all discussion of the issue in budget negotiations with the House next ...
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Police ID Warwick man killed in motorcycle crash
Police say 27-year-old Joel Constantineau died at Rhode Island Hospital after the Tuesday accident. Authorities had initially said he was 25. Police don’t believe he was wearing a ...
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Newtown approves selection of Sandy Hook principal
NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) - Colleagues of a woman hired as the new principal of Sandy Hook Elementary School say she has the skills and the experience to help it recover from last December’s ...
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Unsettled weather continues today chances for storms increase as day goes on
Another day, another shot at severe weather. Showers are possible all day, with chances for storms increasing as the day goes on, National Weather Service meteorologist Charlie Foley said. Showers and thunderstorms bringing strong winds and heavy downpours are expected to pop up across the state this afternoon until roughly midnight, the weather service said in a hazardous weather outlook ...
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Vandys Stallings hires Harvard assistant Hufnagel
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Vanderbilt men’s basketball coach Kevin Stallings has hired Harvard assistant Yanni Hufnagel to fill a spot on his ...
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NH man accused of selling synthetic marijuana
DOVER, N.H. (AP) - Authorities in Dover, N.H., say a discount beverage store owner has been indicted on charges of selling products containing ‘‘synthetic ...
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Woman hit and killed by car while crossing Cranberry Highway in Wareham
A woman was killed while trying to cross Cranberry Highway in Wareham Wednesday evening, Wareham police said. Officers responded to a car accident involving a pedestrian near the Liquor Locker on Route 6/Route 28 around 8:30 p.m., and found the woman's body. She was struck by an eastbound 2002 Jeep Cherokee driven by a 22-year-old Wareham man, police said in a statement issued last night. ...
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Mount Washington museum to get major overhaul
The Mount Washington Observatory museum is planning a major overhaul designed to give summer visitors a feel for the extreme winter weather atop the Northeast's highest peak. The 40-year-old education center attracts more than 100,000 visitors a year, making it the state's most visited museum. The new project, unveiled Thursday, calls for entirely replacing the existing museum with ...
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Boston Archdiocese reinstates suspended priest
BRAINTREE - A Roman Catholic priest suspended a year ago after he was accused of child sexual abuse has been reinstated after the allegation was found to be unsubstantiated.The Boston Archdiocese announced Thursday that the Rev. Joseph Byrne has returned to ministry and been granted senior priest status.Byrne was suspended last May after the Archdiocese received an allegation of sexual abuse of ...
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Boston City League softball semifinal playoff matchups
Here are thr semifinal and final matchups for the Boston City League softball playoffs. The semifinals will be played on Saturday and will be contested simultaneously at Cobe and Clemente ...
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Father of man killed in Boston bomb probe voices regret
Mugshot photos of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (left), killed in a gunfight with police on April 19, 2013; and Ibragim Todashev, who was fatally shot in Orlando, Fla., May 22, when he initiated a violent confrontation with an FBI agent, officials ...
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Father of man killed by FBI agents in Orlando Fla. says his son was not capable of attacking police
Just days before he was shot and killed by an FBI agent during an interrogation in Orlando, Fla., Ibragim Todashev telephoned his father in Russia to say he was coming home -- after he met with law enforcement investigators to discuss the Boston Marathon bombings. "He was supposed to be on a plane tomorrow, but he told me he had to meet with the FBI," the father, Abdulbaki Todashev, ...
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Forerun teams up with BIDMC to remedy patient chart chaos
Forerun founders include, from left, Dr. Larry Nathanson, informatics director in the emergency room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center; Dr. Jason Tracy, an emergency room supervisor; and Mark Chalek, technology ventures officer at the hospital. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center has been working with engineers at Forerun Inc. to find a way to make the flow of patient charts more ...
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Knicks top scoring threats still hurting MAY 23
stop it jgb ..anthony was out for over a week...they sent him home from that west coast trip, and then he missed a few games on the subsequent home stand...if he would have had it done the Knicks would have lost anyway, just with ...
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TechStars startup Jebbit to expand ad service beyond students
Jebbit, whose co-founder and CEO Thomas Coburn, is seeking to raise $1 million for its next round of funding. Jebbit, a member of the current TechStars Boston accelerator class, is expanding its online advertising service to target segments beyond college students, co-founder and CEO Thomas Coburn said in an interview. The company planned to announce the expansion Thursday morning as part of the ...
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Man with Ties to Boston Bomber Killed in Shootout
A man with ties to one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing case was killed in a shootout with the FBI. Twenty-seven-year-old Ibragim Todashev of Orlando, Fla., was under investigation about his relationship with bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Police were questioning him in the apartment complex where he lived when he allegedly became violent. In a statement, the FBI said their ...
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Local tech execs meet with FTC advocate for childrens privacy
Robert Ferrari, founder of Bare Tree Media, met with officials in Congress and the Federal Trade Commission to advocate for the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) as well as science technology engineering and math (STEM) education. A long list of executives, from technology and mobile companies across the nation, met in Washington, D.C. this week to speak with congressional ...
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Man Killed By FBI In Marathon Probe Arrested In 2010 Boston Road Rage
BOSTON (CBS/AP) - The man shot and killed by an FBI agent while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect had been arrested in a road rage incident in Boston in 2010. Ibragim Todashev, 27, was a mixed martial arts fighter who had trained with Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Boston. Tsarnaev, 26, was killed in a shootout with police days after the April 15 terrorist ...
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Boston Store owner Bon-Ton narrows loss
Bon-Ton president and CEO Brendan Hoffman Boston Store owner the Bon-Ton Stores Inc. reported a smaller net loss than a year ago and a 1 percent increase in sales for its fiscal first quarter ended May 4. Bon-Ton, which has its corporate offices in Milwaukee and York, Pa., said its net loss was $26.6 million, or $1.41 per share, compared with a net loss of $40.8 million, or $2.23, a year ago. ...
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3 students struck by lightning at western Mass. school
GRANBY, Mass. -- Three students are recovering after getting struck by lightning at a western Massachusetts private school.Steve Griffin, head of the MacDuffie School in Granby, says the students were struck while sitting outside at a picnic table on Tuesday afternoon.He tells The Daily Hampshire Gazette (http://bit.ly/14UTagx ) that two students were knocked unconscious while a third suffered ...
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Bad weather on the way today
The National Weather Service in Boston has posted a hazardous weather outlook for Massachusetts and much of southern New England, warning of the potential for severe thunderstorms later this afternoon and into tonight that will bring strong wind gusts and heavy downpours to the region.Commuters and weekend holiday travelers are being urged by the Department of Conservation and Recreation to ...
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Ex-Framingham State student gets 3 years
WOBURN, Mass. -- A former Framingham State University student has been sentenced to three years in jail for driving drunk and causing a crash that killed one of her friends.Brooke Uttley of Haverhill was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to felony vehicular homicide and operating a vehicle under the influence of liquor causing serious bodily injury.Prosecutors say the 23-year-old Uttley ...
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Indians Terry Francona expects emotional return to Boston
CLEVELAND - When it comes to sports, Boston is a hot-button town, and the Red Sox generate more heat than any team in New England.Consequently, Terry Francona's first trip to Fenway Park as a rival manager tonight is sure to bring out the media hordes, curious to quiz the Indians' skipper on his frame of mind and his thoughts about his former club and its ...
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Father of Chechen immigrant shot during Boston Marathon bombings probe regrets he left home
GROZNY, Russia - The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect said Thursday that he regrets allowing his son to go to the United States. Ibragim Todashev, 27, was a mixed martial arts fighter who had trained with Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Boston, and his father said they had bonded because of ...
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Video Boston bombing suspects friend implicates Tsarnaev self in murders
Law enforcement sources say police have evidence of a criminal connection between Ibragim Todashev and Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev's involvement in an unsolved grisly triple murder in Waltham, Mass. CBS News' Bob Orr ...
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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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