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  • Markey Gomez clash in final Senate debate in Massachusetts

    Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey clashed over Markey's record in Congress and Gomez's background in business during the final and often testy debate of their U.S. Senate campaign in Massachusetts.  Wednesday's debate, sponsored by a consortium of Boston media outlets, came less than one week before the June 25 special election.  The ...

  • Mass. couples 2001 message in a bottle found

    REHOBOTH, Mass. -- A message sealed in a champagne bottle and tossed into the waters off Tampa, Fla., more than a decade ago by a Massachusetts couple celebrating their engagement has been found.Karl and Michelle Kimmell of Rehoboth say occasionally they would wonder if anyone had found the message they cast away in August 2001. The message, announcing their engagement, had just their first ...

  • Former ICE agent pleads guilty in firearms case

    BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) - A former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent will sell more than 150 firearms that were seized from his home during a raid by another agency in ...

  • Vt. town board OKs biomass agreement

    The board discussed a memorandum of understanding requiring the plant’s owners to pay $3 million for a new access road for truck traffic. It also discusses replacement of homeowners’ old woodstoves with newer, more efficient stoves, to partially offset emissions from the proposed ...

  • Ex-Marine to be reunited with bomb dog in RI

    SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island state police will hold a ceremony this week that will reunite a retired Marine injured in an explosion in Afghanistan with the bomb-detecting dog he used to ...


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Movie Review

Midnight Express [Blu-Ray]

Midnight Express [Blu-Ray]

Alan Parkers Midnight Express is a brutal and brutalizing film whose effects have diminished little in the decades since its controversial theatrical release in the late 1970s. It was both highly acclaimed, evidenced by a standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival and s ... ...

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  • No charges in Starks shooting

    STARKS, Maine (AP) - A Maine grand jury has declined to bring charges in the case of a Starks man who was shot on his own property following a confrontation with a group of ...

  • 15 firefighters reinstated in Bennington Vt.

    BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Fifteen Vermont volunteer firefighters have been reinstated following their suspension for allegedly setting a camper on fire without proper permits during a mud-driving ...

  • Cavs coming up empty for top-pick deal JUN 19

    Cavs have been talking to teams for weeks about a trade, but they are finding a limited market and at this point are likely to keep the pick. Sources in Cleveland strongly suggest that ...

  • Would players even welcome Doc back JUN 19

    Celtics really welcome Rivers back with open arms? How can Rivers relay a message of team and loyalty when this process has suggested that he'd rather jump ship in order to chase a title in a sunny climate? Rivers, such a powerful speaker, can save face publicly. A fan base that's been left squeamish by the idea of rebuilding with a new coach would eventually forgive and forget. But ...

  • Likelihood Dallas keeps its pick Zero percent JUN 19

    Mavericks having the 13th overall draft pick on their opening-day roster next season at 0 percent. There is an 80-percent chance that the pick is traded before or, more likely, during the draft, the source said. There is at least a 15-percent chance that the pick is a foreign player who is under contract and can be left overseas for a year and not count against ...

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