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  • Friend of Boston bombers had confessed to 2011 triple murders claims FBI Friend of Boston bombers had confessed to 2011 triple murders claims FBI

    NEW YORK A Chechen acquaintance of dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev has confessed to slashing the throats of three people in a 2011 gruesome triple murder, federal law enforcement officials have said. Ibragim Todashev, who made the confession, was killed early Wednesday during a confrontation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police in Orlando, Florida, a federal law ...

  • Time in Boston Short but sweet to Mike Aviles

    Mike Aviles’ career with the Red Sox probably won’t go down in the annals of team history.But as Aviles was slipping on his Cleveland uniform for his first game back at Fenway Park last night before the Red Sox and Indians played the opener of a four-game set, he reminisced about his feelings when his run with Sox was done. His time with the Red Sox was short - a year and a half - ...

  • State Senate passes $33.9 billion budget

    The state Senate voted 36 to 3 Thursday night to approve a $33.99 billlion budget for fiscal 2014, adding $68.4 million in spending to the plan over the course of two days of ...

  • Friend implicated Boston bomber in 2011 triple murder before being shot dead by FBI

    File photo of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. An alleged friend of Tsarnaev, Ibragim Todashev, was shot and killed by police early Wednesday when he became violent during questioning by the ...

  • Travelers get help for Memorial Day

    Motorists stuck in traffic as they head off for Memorial Day weekend getaways will see something new on many of the state’s most congested highways today: digital message boards telling them how many more miles and minutes to major points.Nearly 50 new signs providing real-time traffic information are being introduced to the Mass Pike (from Logan airport to Sturbridge), Route 3 (from ...


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Movie Review

Night and the City [DVD]

Night and the City [DVD]

At the beginning of Jules Dassins Night and the City, Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark) is on the run, and at the end of the film, he is on the run. Harry is the kind of man who is always running from someone and into something else. Hes a schemer, a hustler of easily mallea ... ...

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  • Fugitive rapist to spend up to 40 years in prison

    A man who fled and lived a secret life in Maine after being convicted of raping three South Shore teenagers in 1978 will spend most of the rest of his life behind bars after being sentenced yesterday, more than three decades after the crimes.Gary Allen Irving, 52, captured March 27 by members of the Massachusetts State Police Violent Fugitive Apprehension Section at his Gorham, Maine, home, was ...

  • Casino stance hurts Daniel F. Conley in crucial Eastie

    A key political power broker in the battleground neighborhood of East Boston has yanked his support for Daniel F. Conley’s mayoral bid after the district attorney called for a citywide vote that was seen as a threat to the Suffolk Downs casino bid."He was my guy, but right now I’m just putting it on ice," said state Rep. Carlo Basile, who last month endorsed Conley and ...

  • Whitey’s attorney We won’t be bullied

    In a blistering response to federal prosecutors’ demands that James "Whitey" Bulger’s lawyers stop speaking to the press, ?J.W. Carney Jr. fought back by ?listing a host of recent presidential scandals, U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s struggles in Boston and a quote from Thomas ?Jefferson."A federal government with ?unchecked power poses a threat to every freedom ...

  • Prosecutors Jailhouse phone calls detail gang hit

    Among the 1,174 pieces of evidence prosecutors plan to present against James "Whitey" ?Bulger are transcripts of telephone conversations the Southie mobster had while in the Plymouth County House of Correction about the orchestrated gang hit on Edward Connors, according to a list of exhibits federal prosecutors revealed yesterday.Connors, an ex-boxer and ?Savin Hill bar owner, ...

  • Experts weigh political correctness role in terror

    The Boston Marathon bombings and the butchering of a British soldier, attributed to terrorism suspects who had already faced official scrutiny, are further proof of how hard it is for free societies to stop small-scale jihadist offensives, security experts say, but critics say law enforcement is handicapping itself with excessive political correctness.Critics point to the blackballing of ...

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