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    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 ...

  • Dozens file nomination paperwork in Boston mayoral race

    City officials say more than a dozen candidates have submitted nomination papers with more expected to do so by Tuesday's 5 p.m. deadline. Menino is the city's longest serving mayor. He announced in March that he would not run for re-election after five full terms in office. The decision sets the stage for the city's first wide open mayoral election in three ...

  • Hearing postponed for Boston bombing suspect

    BOSTON -; A judge has agreed to postpone a probable cause hearing for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' ...

  • El Paso Nonprofits Aid Boston Bangladesh Victims

    Limbs International, an El Paso not-for-profit organization which helps leg amputees in Third World countries, plans to provide prosthetics to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing and victims of a garment factory collapse in Bangladesh, it announced Monday. The organization is ready to provide its Limbs Relief Knee, a durable, plastic, low-cost, artificial knee used as part of a ...

  • No Shortage Of Candidates For Boston Mayoral Election As Deadline Nears

    retiring Boston Mayor Thomas Menino. City officials say more than a dozen candidates have submitted nomination papers with more expected to do so by Tuesday’s 5 p.m. deadline. Menino is the city’s longest serving mayor. He announced in March that he ...


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  • Judge agrees to delay in case of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev

    By Pete Williams, NBC News justice correspondent The judge overseeing the government's prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving defendant in the Boston Marathon bombing case, has agreed to delay the next step in the case for roughly a month.A probable cause hearing had been scheduled for May 30, but federal prosecutors and lawyers for Tsarnaev asked Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler ...

  • Boston police target alleges gang members

    A police department spokeswoman says suspects include gang members and authorities are obtaining search warrants for several houses in the ...

  • Tsarnaev’s probable cause hearing delayed until July

    Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s much-anticipated first public appearance has been put off for at least another two months by a federal judge.U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler today granted a joint request by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Tsarnaev’s defense team to postpone the former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ...

  • Cops Dad who nabbed foster kids went on lam with coolers blankets

    A fugitive Las Vegas father’s sports car was packed with coolers of food, pillows and blankets when authorities caught up to him and the two children he’s accused of kidnapping late last night."When we searched the vehicle, we found what would appear to be coolers of food to indicate the vehicle was going to be used for a prolonged trip. There were pillows and blankets," ...

  • Biogen Idec seeks FDA approval for new MS drug

    Weston-based Biogen Idec said today it has submitted a biologics license application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval of an injectable drug called Plegridy to treat relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.The submission was based on the results from the first year of a two-year global Phase 3 ADVANCE study, officials said, adding data demonstrated that Plegridy significantly ...

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