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  • Doc Bombing victims’ rehab just begun

    Boston Marathon bombing victim Roseann Sdoia and her bionic leg head to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital this week, where the determined real estate executive will learn how to climb stairs and sit down with her new micro-processer-equipped right foot."The marathon of taking care of people has just begun," Spaulding’s Dr. David M. Crandall said yesterday, two months after the ...

  • Old pal Johnny gets last laugh at Bulger

    For a 72-year-old guy who’s admitted killing the equivalent of the roster of a minor league baseball team over three decades, Johnny Martorano’s hair is, amazingly, as brown as mine was when I graduated high school in 1967 - a time when his death toll stood at only a couple of people.The great thing about watching this henchman’s testimony on a high-def closed circuit feed from ...

  • Dad ID’d teen accused in bleach attack cops say

    Prosecutors have accused a 22-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl of teaming up to beat, rob and throw bleach in the face of a T bus passenger - and cops say the teen’s own alarmed father turned in his daughter after he recognized her in surveillance images.Lai-Lawnnie Douglas, 22, pleaded not guilty yesterday in Roxbury District Court to charges of unarmed robbery, mayhem, destruction ...

  • William Ryan veteran formerly of Lowell at 72

    William Michael Ryan of Pawtucket, R.I., formerly of Lowell, as well as Maine and Florida, a retired veteran, died Tuesday in his home. He was 72.Born in Lowell, Mr. Ryan lived in Pawtucket, for the past month and previously resided in Sabattus, Maine, for 12 years, and Port Charlotte, Fla., for 19 years.Mr. Ryan served in the Army from 1958 to 1971, during the Korean and Vietnam wars. He ...

  • Hit man’s testimony shock to victims’ kin

    Among the dozens of spectators who listened in rapt shock yesterday as John Martorano walked through a prolific hit man’s work history of murder after murder was a woman who said she is a sister of Paul and Donald McGonagle - two of the 19 people James "Whitey" Bulger is accused of killing."I can’t get over it," she said of the shocking testimony."What is ...


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Mission: Impossible [DVD]

Mission: Impossible [DVD]

Throughout its history, Hollywood has tended to run in cycles, latching onto an idea and running with it until they run it into the ground. From screwball comedies, to Biblical epics, to disaster thrillers, to juvenile gross-out comedies, Hollywood producers love to run in ... ...

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  • Mob book fan seeking 
autograph written off

    A phalanx of U.S. Marshals made sure John "The Executioner" Martorano and former mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger were kept at a safe distance yesterday - but a fan of gangland history was able to slip by.During the morning break in Courtroom 11 in federal court in Boston, a South Shore man was able to get within arm’s reach of the witness stand to ask Martorano to sign a ...

  • Farmers markets spring into action

    As summer blooms, several local farmers markets are sprouting around the city again.On Thursday, the Bowdoin Geneva Farmers Market opens for its sixth season."People love it. They come to socialize and hang out. And the community has a sense of ownership around the market and the excitement of it being here each week," said Maura Beaufait, healthy food access coordinator of the Bowdoin ...

  • Giving charity a fighting chance

    Desk jockeys are getting ready to brawl for charity, all because of a guy who decided he needed a better workout.Sick of sitting on his butt for up to 15 hours a day at a corporate finance job, Brendan McKee, 29, gave mixed martial arts training a try.He was instantly ...

  • Bruins faithful put on their game faces

    Move over Bobby Orr, Gerry Cheevers and Ray Bourque.Bruins fans packing the TD Garden for the Stanley Cup homestand last night declared the current squad unrivaled."This is probably the best Bruins team I’ve seen," said Ben Benoit of Littleton. "Their depth is ...

  • State may KO UFC bouts

    State red tape could knock out a blockbuster bareknuckle fight card slated for Boston Garden later this summer as government officials are refusing the UFC’s request to relax rules barring foreign-born fighters from hitting the octagon without Social Security numbers."This law has been in existence since we legalized mixed martial arts in the commonwealth of Massachusetts," said ...

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