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  • Washington scandals intrude on Mass. Senate race

    BOSTON (AP) -- The controversies swirling around the Obama administration - from the IRS targeting of conservative groups to lingering questions about last year's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya - are threatening to engulf Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate ...

  • Boston changed marathon running but the friendly race vibe remains | Kevin Lynch

    Running my fifth Brooklyn half marathon on Saturday felt like it should and how I had hoped it would be. That is, just like the four other previous ones. I was concerned it might have lost its charm and boisterous atmosphere that ...

  • NH police investigate fatal shooting in Manchester

    Officials say police responded to a report of a shooting at about 11 p.m. Saturday in the vicinity of Pine and Prospect streets, where they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. The man was treated at the scene and transported to a local hospital, where he later ...

  • Passenger killed in northern Vermont accident

    LYNDON, Vt. (AP) - A passenger has been killed in a car accident in northern Vermont after the driver lost control while swerving to avoid a small animal that was crossing the road. Vermont State Police say 76-year-old Gerda Blasczyk of St. Johnsbury was driving on Route 122 in Lyndon at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday when her car traveled up an embankment and flipped over, coming to a rest upside ...

  • NH man dies after rolling kayak

    The New Hampshire Fish and Game Department says 58-year-old Keith Whitten of Berlin and his wife were kayaking on the Upper Ammonoosuc River in Dummer when his kayak overturned at about 2 p.m. ...


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Robinsin Crusoe on Mars [DVD]

Robinsin Crusoe on Mars [DVD]

Because it is the closet planet to Earth, Mars has always held a special attraction to both scientists and science-fiction writers. The red planet is so close and yet so far, and it has long captured the imaginations of those who would dare to ruminate on what lies bey ... ...

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  • NH Institute of Art holds commencement Sunday

    MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) - Bestselling author Andre Dubus is the keynote speaker at the New Hampshire Institute of Art’s commencement ...

  • Maine mans body found after standoff fire

    SACO, Maine (AP) - The body of a 58-year-old Maine man has been found in the rubble of his home following a fire that he’s believed to have started during a standoff with ...

  • Vt.s only pharmacy school to hold 1st graduation

    COLCHESTER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont’s only pharmacy school is graduating its first class in a ceremony at the Champlain Valley ...

  • Maine comic festival features writers artists

    More than 100 comic book writers, artists, publishers and cartoonists will be on hand at the fifth annual Maine Comics Arts Festival. The event is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday at Ocean Gateway on the Portland ...

  • Medway psychic focuses on grieving families

    MEDWAY, Mass. - More than a year after losing their 20-year-old son, James, in a Holliston Street crash, Sandra and Robert Paquette of Norfolk were trying to enjoy themselves at a friend's holiday party.That's when Ruth Larkin walked in."Ruthie went right over to my husband and said, 'did you lose a son who was a couple inches taller than you? Well he's here. He's ...

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