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  • Readers vexed about theater texting

    Texting in movie theaters: It’s the worst.Almost all of you sympathized with the reader who wrote in to OMG yesterday, frustrated with a theater-texter who actually had the nerve to call out our reader for talking during the movie when he was only asking her to stop texting! Emails flooded the omg@bostonherald.com inbox."Saw Superman at AMC Methuen Friday night. Before the show ...

  • N.H. man arraigned in toddler’s death

    A New Hampshire man who said he tried to stop a 2-year-old boy from fussing is accused of wrapping the child in blankets and securing them with a rope, then putting a duffel bag on top of him. Jared Pope of Somersworth, 30, has been charged with smothering 2-year-old Noah York. Pope’s bail was set at $250,000 at his arraignment Monday. Police were called to a Somersworth apartment Friday ...

  • Acadia park fall injures three climbers

    Acadia National Park rangers said a broken rope was to blame for a fall that injured three climbers on a 25-foot-high rock face and led to a complicated rescue. Ranger Will Overton said that two men tumbled from the rock face at Otter Cliffs and that one or both landed on a third climber at the bottom Sunday morning. A man and woman were taken away in an ambulance. It took roughly four hours to ...

  • Auburn firefighters save snakes from burning attic

    It may sounds like a B-grade movie, but it was all too real for Maine firefighters who encountered snakes in an attic. Firefighters in Auburn learned upon responding to an attic fire Monday morning that a tenant was keeping 25 to 30 ball pythons in the attic. Captain Scott Hunter told WMTW-TV that firefighters rescued about half the snakes after being told they were not poisonous. Firefighters ...

  • Carnival workers denied minimum wage suit says

    Workers who set up carnivals around New England sued a New Hampshire amusements company Monday, alleging it violated minimum wage and overtime laws by requiring employees to work long hours at a low, weekly ...


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Movie Review

Reindeer Games

After seeing "Reindeer Games," I'm not sure whether to congratulate screenwriter Ehren Kruger or berate him. On the one hand, he has written a script that twists and turns in ways that are impossible to foresee, and therefore the resulting movie always has one more surprise in store. On the other hand, he has written a script that twists and turns in ways that are positively ludicrous, which turn ... ...

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  • Court OK’s use of force to get DNA sample

    Prison officials can use reasonable force to take DNA samples from convicted felons who refuse to provide them, Connecticut’s second-highest court ruled Monday. State law requires all convicted felons to provide DNA samples, but it does not specifically say that officials can use force. The Appellate Court said that ‘‘prohibiting the state from using reasonable force would ...

  • Man is fatally shot on Springfield street

    Police said a man has died after a shooting on a Springfield street. Officers responded to reports of multiple shots fired in the city’s Indian Orchard neighborhood just after 5 p.m. Sunday. The victim was taken to Baystate Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead. Neighbors told The Republican newspaper that the man was an innocent victim and that there had been trouble in the area ...

  • NASA picks 8 new astronauts one from Harvard Medical

    CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA has named eight new astronauts - its first new batch in four years - including Jessica U. Meir, an assistant professor of anesthesiology at Harvard Medical ...

  • C-plus rating for Mass. on health

    Massachusetts is making strides toward reducing childhood obesity but still has a way to go in improving health education and public health funding, according to a health and wellness report card released today by two nonprofit ...

  • Bridgewater man injured in crash caused by texting dies

    Dennis J. McElhinney, a 25-year-old West Bridgewater man, has died of injuries in a crash that police say was caused by texting while ...

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