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  • Boston Marathon Winner to Return Medal to Honor Blast Victims

    The winner of this year's Boston Marathon, Ethiopian runner Lelisa Desisa, says he wants to return his medal to the city to honor the victims of the April bombing. Desisa met Sunday with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa. He said "sport should never be used as a battleground." And he said returning to Boston would show that the commitment to freedom is ...

  • Boston bombers slain affiliate not an Islamist says widow

    Ibragim Todashev, an affiliate of slain Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was himself killed by US security personnel, was an aspiring athlete who took no interests in politics or radical Islam, his widow said. "We avoided talking about politics because we had nothing to do with it," Rene Manukyan, who was married to Ibragim Todashev, told Voice of Russia radio. Todashev, a 27-year-old ...

  • Salvation Army Volunteers From Massachusetts Helping Tornado Victims

    Philip Gotcher stands in the rubble of his house after a powerful tornado ripped through the area on May 20, 2013 in Moore, Oklahoma. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty ...

  • Affleck gets honorary doctorate from Brown

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Academy Award-winning actor and director Ben Affleck has received one of six honorary doctorate degrees from Brown ...

  • CapeFlyer Begins Train Service From Boston to Hyannis

    And they could not suppress their delight at the news: traffic was bumper to bumper for four miles at the Bourne Bridge and at a standstill for two miles at the Sagamore Bridge. And all the while, the CapeFlyer -- on its inaugural run from Boston to Cape Cod -- rolled on through the dusk, carrying relaxed and stress-free ...


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Movie Review

Moonlight Whispers (Gekko no sasayaki)

Akihiko Shiota's directorial debut, Moonlight Whispers (Gekko no sasayaki) starts off like it is going to be about a typical teenage romance. The two leads, Hidaka (Kenji Mizuhashi) and Satsuki (Tsugumi), are shy 17-year-olds who are both members of their high school kendo team and practice together in the mornings. ...

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  • Red Sox RHP Buchholz scratched from Mondays start

    BOSTON (AP) - Red Sox right-hander Clay Buchholz was scratched from his scheduled start against Philadelphia because of irritation in his collarbone ...

  • Boston Marathon concert to feature music icons

    BOSTON (AP) - Some of Boston’s biggest music icons are scheduled to perform this week at a benefit concert for victims of the Boston Marathon ...

  • Massachusetts town cancels parade citing aging veterans

    BEVERLY, Mass.-Veterans in suburban Boston gathered in a park to mark Memorial Day this year rather than hold a parade because of failing health and dwindling numbers. The city of Beverly called off its parade this year because so few veterans would be able to march. The parade has been a fixture in the town since the Civil War. Jerry Guilebbe is the city's Director of Veterans' ...

  • Thousands finally finish Boston marathon

    Nearly seven weeks after two bombs went off near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, about 2,000 people on Saturday ran the last 1.6 km - of the 42km race, crossing the finish ...

  • LeBron James Just call him THE FLOPPER... MAY 25

    I just realized that in all the time you blab away on here, you hardly(if ever), do a thread on the Spurs you claim to support..You are too busy hanging on Lebron, Kobe or Tebow's jockstraps to actually say something insightful on your team.Do you even know their roster...? Ohthere you go to google ...

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