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  • Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States Busy weekend for Enda Kenny in United States

    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Chinese Taipei win mens doubles TT title

    Chinese Taipei's Chen Chien-An and Chuang Chih-Yuan upset Hao Shuai and Ma Lin from China to win the men's doubles title at the World Table Tennis Championships here. Chen and Chuang fought back from one game down to win three in a row but Ma, former Olympic Champion, and Hao Shuai took the fifth before the Chinese Taipei tandem sealed the victory Sunday by taking the sixth 11-8, reports ...

  • Medtronic Boston Scientific patent case heads to Supreme Court

    Medtronic and Boston Scientific is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court, the high court announced Monday. The two patents involved cover cardiac resynchronization therapy, or CRT, which gives the heart an electrical shock when its two blood-pumping chambers, or ventricles, get out of sync with each other. Last September, a federal appeals court reversed the ruling of a federal court judge in ...

  • Correction Boston Marathon-Injured Officer story

    BOSTON -; In a story May 19 about a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer shot in a showdown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, The Associated Press incorrectly spelled the officer's last name. He is Officer Richard Donohue, not ...

  • Arrest for anti-gay Twitter threat in Puerto Rico

    SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A man has been arrested in Puerto Rico for a Twitter post that threatened a gay activist and made a reference to the Boston Marathon bombing, the FBI said Monday.Joseph Morales Serrano was taken into custody at his home in San Juan on a charge of cyberbullying for allegedly posting the threatening message on May 6, according to Special Agent Moises Quinones, a spokesman ...


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Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Night Train Murders (L’ultimo treno della notte) [Blu-Ray]

Note: This essay contains spoilers and reveals the films ending, so if you have not seen it already, proceed with caution. Throughout the 1970s and 80s the lower rung of the Italian film industry was a veritable factory in the low-budget horror rip-off trade, shamelessly ... ...

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  • 3 Kendall Square buildings evacuated after backhoe hits gas main

    A construction crew’s backhoe severed a high-pressure gas main this morning in Kendall Square, forcing evacuations, road closures and disruption of MBTA Red Line service.Cambridge fire and police crews are monitoring the air quality of three buildings in Kendall Square before letting tenants back inside.Construction crews were digging an excavation site next to a building at 5 Cambridge ...

  • Ex-Arlington Boys Girls Club staffer held on $250G bail

    A former program director at the Arlington Boys & Girls Club was held on $250,000 cash bail this morning on charges of sexually assaulting five young children while he worked at the youth organization in the late 1970s and early 1980s.Paul A. Collins, 62, who was arrested Friday at his Centereach, Long Island, home, is charged with rape of a child with force and three counts of indecent ...

  • UMass student trustees press for boost in state funding

    Student representatives of the state's public universities urged Beacon Hill lawmakers today to increase funding for the University of Massachusetts system. The elected student trustees from the UMass universities called on the Senate to approve a $478 million funding proposal from Governor Deval Patrick. Senate debate on the plan is set to begin Wednesday. Last ...

  • RI Senate to take up school security secrecy bill

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island lawmakers are set to vote on a proposal to allow local education officials to formulate school security plans behind closed doors despite concerns from open government ...

  • Democrats strike back at GOP voting measures

    DENVER (AP) - In a bitter fight, Colorado Democrats recently muscled through the Statehouse a massive elections reform bill that allows voters to register up until Election Day and still cast their ...

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