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  • FBI says Florida Man Fatally Shot During Boston Bombings Investigation

    An FBI statement said the shooting occurred early Wednesday in the city of Orlando as the FBI agent and other law enforcement officers were interviewing the man. A friend of the dead man identified him as Ibragim Todashev. He said Todashev had lived in the Boston area before moving to Florida several months ago and knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were martial-arts ...

  • Video Florida FBI shooting and its Boston bombing links

    Law enforcement officials say a man was fatally shot while he was being questioned in the Boston Marathon bombing case after he lunged at an FBI agent with a ...

  • Train service back on track after Conn. derailment

    Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to buses Monday, May 20, 2012, after a train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. (AP ...

  • 12-year-old Mass. boy wins National Geographic Bee

    David Lyle, CEO of the National Geographic Channel, has seen enough of the letters to know how they go. The writer is typically a longtime reader of the magazine, who perhaps recalls the times he leafed through its glossy pages while perched on grandpa’s ...

  • Church leader and Bulger associate indicted

    The director of operations for the Boston Society of New Jerusalem church and an author who wrote about accused-murderer James "Whitey" Bulger was arrested himself today after being indicted on a slew of federal charges including racketeering, RICO conspiracy, mail fraud, extortion and bribery, according federal prosecutors.Edward MacKenzie, Jr., of Weymouth, 54, stole ...


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Scream

I grew up during the heyday of teenage slasher movies. I was four years old when the genre was started in 1978 with John Carpenter's masterful "Halloween," and in my early twenties when it was giving its last dying breaths with such junk as 1993's "Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday" and 1995's "Halloween 6." During that period, Hollywood produced a seemingly endless stream of graphically violen ... ...

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  • Boston church official who once claimed mob connection facing racketeering extortion charges

    BOSTON - A Boston church official who once claimed to be an associate of mobster James "Whitey" Bulger has been arrested on charges of stealing money from the church. Federal prosecutors say Edward MacKenzie Jr. was arrested at his Massachusetts home Wednesday after being indicted on charges including racketeering and extortion. The 54-year-old MacKenzie was the director of ...

  • Director of Beacon Hill church indicted on charges of looting the venerable institution

    The director of a venerable church in Boston's Beacon Hill neighborhood is facing charges that he took over the church and intimidated its members while he and his associates looted its substantial financial assets. Police arrested Edward J. MacKenzie Jr., 54, of Weymouth today after a federal grand jury indicted him on more than a dozen charges, including racketeering, mail fraud, money ...

  • Maine home sales jump 14 percent in April

    SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - The Maine Association of Realtors says sales of existing single-family homes in Maine jumped 14 percent in April compared to a year earlier, and the median sales price increased 4 ...

  • State study Mass. towns turbines too noisy

    FAIRHAVEN, Mass. (AP) - A state sound study indicates two industrial-sized turbines in Fairhaven are violating Massachusetts noise ...

  • Mass. Lt. Gov. Murray to quit join business group

    In an interview with the Associated Press, Murray said he had not been looking for a new job and that the chamber approached him a month ago about the ...

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