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  • Boston bombers slain affiliate not an Islamist says widow

    Ibragim Todashev, an affiliate of slain Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was himself killed by US security personnel, was an aspiring athlete who took no interests in politics or radical Islam, his widow said. "We avoided talking about politics because we had nothing to do with it," Rene Manukyan, who was married to Ibragim Todashev, told Voice of Russia radio. Todashev, a 27-year-old ...

  • Facial recognition technology quickly identifies Boston Marathon bombing suspect

    Researchers at Michigan State University including an Indian professor were able to quickly identify one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects from law enforcement video, using the latest in automatic facial recognition technology. In the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing laboratory, Anil Jain, MSU Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, and Josh Klontz, a research ...

  • Search for pilot in deadly NY Angel Flight ongoing

    The search for a missing pilot of a volunteer Angel Flight that crashed in upstate New York, killing at least two people, has ended for the day and will resume ...

  • Boston tragedy warning shot for Indy 500

    Indy 500's elite club may welcome new member Security at tomorrow's Indianapolis 500 will be ramped up, as race officials of one of the year's biggest one-day sporting events respond to last month's deadly Boston Marathon bombings. Officials of the race, which routinely attracts crowds of about 300,000 to the sprawling 4km oval, said the added security steps include closing ...

  • Boston Calling Day 1

    boston calling day 1What's a little rain among friends?All the best music festivals have to deal with inclement weather. Woodstock partiers wallowed in the mud. It's poured buckets on folks at Glastonbury, Bonnaroo and Newport.That's how it was Saturday at the inaugural Boston Calling music fest at City Hall Plaza. On day one, a capacity crowd of 19,500 packed the pavilion and ...


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Angels & Demons

Angels & Demons

It was a no-brainer that there would be some rumbling within Christian circles about Angels & Demons, the latest cinematic potboiler culled from a novel by Dan Brown, if only as requisite residue from the controversy over The Da Vinci Code (2006) ... ...

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  • Boston Marathon runners finish race interrupted by bombs

    Boston Marathon last month was interrupted by two deadly bombs completed the final mile Saturday. Cheered on by supporters, the runners jogged from Kenmore Square to the finish line, The Boston Globe reported. "It's a great way to show the strength of Boston and the camaraderie in our city," runner Liza Marie Felici, 28, of Dover said. "There's a sense of closure . ...

  • Red Sox Indians take time with Newtown victims

    Email BOSTON -- After more than three hours of slugging it out in a soggy Fenway Park, the Red Sox and the Indians did their part to help a town ravaged by tragedy. About 900 people from Newtown, Conn., visited Fenway on Saturday to take in the contest between Boston and Cleveland, and afterward, players from both teams signed autographs and took pictures with a group of about 450 from the ...

  • Ross happy to be back but hates new gear

    Email BOSTON -- That black head cap David Ross was wearing in Saturday's 7-4 win over the Indians wasn't transferring alien signals, although he isn't surprised if it looks that way. It's actually Kevlar protective gear meant to disperse the effects of any contact made to his head, which he's being extra careful with lately after missing 14 days with a concussion. ...

  • Middlebrooks optimistic about return

    Email BOSTON -- Despite the frustration that comes with watching from the bench, Will Middlebrooks is staying optimistic about the timetable of his return from a lower back injury. The Red Sox third baseman said he is improving and expects to be back when he is eligible to come off the 15-day disabled list on June 8. "It's better today than it was yesterday," Middlebrooks said ...

  • Thousands return to finish boston marathon

    The Boston Marathon bombing prevented some runners from completing their run. More than a month later, thousands of athletes joined the victims to run the final leg of the ...

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