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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 ...

  • Boston back on track

    About 3,000 runners whose run in the Boston Marathon was cut short by the deadly bombings on April 15 ceremoniously finished the race yesterday (right). They wept, hugged and cheered at the finish line of the famed route, where blasts set off by terrorists killed three people and injured or maimed 264."It’s a great way to show the strength of Boston and the camaraderie in our ...

  • Boston runners complete final mile of marathon as memorial to bomb victims

    United States Thousands of runners and their supporters have taken to the streets of Boston to complete the marathon they were forced to abandon after twin bombs exploded near the finish line last month.Emotions were high as a pack of runners carried three US flags and one Chinese flag, raising their arms defiantly as their feet pounded rain-drizzled pavement.Two of the victims of the twin ...

  • Tears expected at Boston Strong show

    Aerosmith has played plenty of milestone Massachusetts shows - the original Boston Garden in ’75, a three-night stand at Great Woods in ’88 and Fenway Park in 2010.But no show will deliver the emotional punch of Thursday’s sold-out Boston Strong concert benefiting The One Fund Boston at the TD Garden."For Joe (Perry) and the rest of us, it means everything to get back and ...


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Insignificance [Blu-Ray]

Insignificance [Blu-Ray]

Set in the late hours of a single night in 1953, when the threat of atomic destruction was paramount, the communist-hunting House Un-American Activities Committee was at a full boil, and Marilyn Monroe was entering the pantheon of sex symbols by standing over a subway grate, Nicola ... ...

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  • MFA celebrates love for the Hub

    Hundreds of people lined up along Huntington Avenue yesterday to visit the Museum of Fine Arts as it kicked off its free Memorial Day Community Weekend, named "Boston I Love," with activities and special events celebrating the spirit of the city in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings.The free weekend, which runs through Monday, features an installation, titled "To Boston ...

  • Mom killed kids hurt in Pike crash

    A three-car crash in Weston yesterday killed a mother and injured her two children, state police said.The children’s injuries were not life-threatening, state police said. They were transported to a hospital.There was no word on injuries to the other drivers.The mother has not been identified and her children will not be identified because of their age, state police said.The crash happened ...

  • Runners cross finish line ‘as one’

    Thousands of runners finally finished what they started April 15 as they sprinted across the Boston Marathon finish line in Copley Square yesterday."Forty days ago, we ran as individuals, but today, all of us, we run as one," J. Alain Ferry, one of the organizers of the OneRun, told the crowd minutes before they left Kenmore Square to run the last mile of the marathon route.The ...

  • Feds probe cause of plane wreck

    Federal aviation investigators are trying to determine why a small plane carrying three people - including a New York man treated at Massachusetts General Hospital and his wife - plowed into a deep pond in upstate New York on Friday night.Fulton County, N.Y., Sheriff Thomas J. Lorey said yesterday the bodies of the pilot and the patient’s wife were recovered after the twin-engine commuter ...

  • 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 ...

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