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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 ...

  • Dalai Lama to Louisville crowd Forgive the Boston bombing suspects

    Boston Marathon bombing suspects.';Forgiveness does not mean you accept their wrongdoing,'; the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, said, The Associated Press reported. ';No. You must oppose [it]. But the wrongdoer? For that, forgiveness. You should not keep negative feelings, anger, for that.';The Dalai Lama was in Louisville as the last stop of a multicity sweep through the ...

  • Boston to swap parking for parklets in 3 districts eyes a 4th

    A "parklet" fills parking spaces on Valencia Street in San Francisco. Boston has named three business districts where similar facilities will replace parking spaces. Parking spaces are set to become "parklets" in Allston, Jamaica Plain and Mission Hill three neighborhoods selected by City Hall for the installation of miniature parks. According to the City of Boston the portable ...

  • NY man faces child abuse charges in Mass.

    ARLINGTON, Mass. (AP) - A former Arlington man charged with sexually molesting children at the town’s Boys and Girls Club in the 1970s has a court ...


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Haywire

Haywire

Steven Soderberghs Haywire is a slight genre exercise built on a spare, straight-to-video backbone and fleshed out with Soderberghs experimental attitude and an impressive cast of actors, most of whom probably didnt spend more than a few days on set before picking up their paychecks. Give ... ...

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  • 911 call helps police with Vt. attempted break-in

    SWANTON, Vt. (AP) - Vermont State Police say a youth’s phone call to police reporting someone was trying to break into his home has led to an ...

  • Salem man dies after getting struck in Gloucester

    Police say 29-year-old Michael Linscott was struck by a vehicle on Saturday morning at a Gloucester housing complex. He was taken to Addison Gilbert Hospital where he was later pronounced ...

  • Fire destroys home in Bennington Vt.

    John Scutt, Bennington Rural Fire Department assistant chief, tells the Bennington Banner (http://bit.ly/13FwcLi) the fire on Silk Road just south of the Route 279 overpass was contained within an ...

  • Maine gas prices rise more than 3 cents

    Price-monitoring website MaineGasPrices.com reports Monday that the average retail price of a gallon of gas in Maine has risen more than 3 cents in the past week to ...

  • Will Hulls beachfront condo push make 2013 feel like 1988

    Nantasket Beach in Hull: The town is looking to spur beachfront development with a zoning change that's friendly to condo builders. Hull, Mass., is planning for a second condo boom, with a zoning change that allows for taller buildings on a 64-acre stretch of the sandy peninsula that protects Boston Harbor from the winds and waves of Massachusetts Bay. Hull's last condo boom began in the ...

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