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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 ...

  • Predator tab grows Calling experts to testify cost taxpayers $100000

    Public defenders seeking to keep convicted sex offenders’ identities secret spent nearly $100,000 in taxpayer money last year on expert testimony - a strategy pushed in a widely circulated handbook advising attorneys on how to beat the state’s registry, a Herald review found.The review comes as the Senate yesterday approved a measure to add the names of Level 2 predators to the Sex ...

  • Maine Senate OKs cellphone privacy bill

    The bill, which was approved Thursday night, would require police to get a warrant before engaging in location tracking of cellphones and other GPS-enabled devices in non-emergency ...

  • Vaxess lands first tranche of $4M round

    Last year, the founders of Vaxess Technologies - including Michael Schrader, Livio Valenti, Kathryn Kosuda, and Patrick Ho- won Harvard University President's Challenge. Newly-launched Vaxess Technologies Inc., a life sciences company developing vaccine stabilization technology, has closed the first tranche of a $3.75 million Series A round of financing. Norwich Ventures led the round, which ...

  • Senate approves $34B Mass spending plan

    BOSTON (AP) -- The Massachusetts Senate has given final approval to its version of the state budget, setting the stage for negotiations with the House over the $34 billion spending plan for the fiscal year that starts July ...


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Untamed Heart

"Untamed Heart" is a modern romantic fable that tells the story of two broken people who find each other when they are most in need. It's touching in the simplicity of its age-old story, and heart-warming in the way it knows and loves its characters, who are blue-collar, common people normally overlooked or misrepresented in Hollywood. When we first meet Adam (Christian Slater) he is a young boy l ... ...

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  • Northampton removes some downtown benches

    NORTHAMPTON, Mass. -- The city of Northampton has removed six of the 16 benches in its busy downtown shopping district -- because it seems people were actually sitting on them.Mayor David Narkewicz says the city received numerous complaints, particularly from businesses, about people loitering for hours on benches he says were meant for short-term use.Daniel Yacuzzo, director of the Business ...

  • Malloy Larson announce manufacturing initiative

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy and Congressman John Larson are announcing a new manufacturing jobs initiative that will bring together state government, businesses and ...

  • Chilly weather pressures Destination XL in 1Q

    CANTON, Mass. (AP) - Destination XL Group Inc.’s fiscal first-quarter net income dropped 57 percent as the men’s clothing and accessories company contended with a chilly spring and higher ...

  • Conn. House passes baby food labeling bill

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A bill that would require special labels on baby food containing genetically modified ingredients has passed the state House of ...

  • FBI agents who eliminated Boston terrorist Tsarnaev mysteriously killed

    The FBI agents, who eliminated Boston terrorist Tamerlan Tsarnaev, died as they fell out of a helicopter, the press service of the FBI said. Two officers of the counter-terrorism department of the Federal Bureau of Investigation died on Friday, May 17. The incident occurred during training exercises conducted by the FBI at a distance of 12 nautical miles from the coast of the U.S. state of ...

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