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  • State Unlicensed therapists providing care

    BOSTON (AP) -- State records show that dozens of therapists who were unlicensed or improperly supervised routinely treated mentally ill patients at three clinics owned by a major provider of care to low-income Massachusetts ...

  • DA seeks publics help in Hernandez case

    Homicide investigators are asking for the public's help in tracking down a "silver mirror cover" that may have broken off a car that's linked to the death of a Dorchester man found Monday not far from the North Attleboro home of Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez.The cover (similar to the one shown at right) "may be visible along a route of travel between Dorchester and ...

  • 2 dead in New Haven gas station wreck

    NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - New Haven police say two people died and another was injured when a car crashed into a city gas station at a high rate of ...

  • Vt. officials investigate fish kill in lake

    LEICESTER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont state agencies are investigating whether a pesticide sprayed to control mosquitoes caused a fish kill in a ...

  • Former Searsport teacher wont face retrial

    SEARSPORT, Maine (AP) - Prosecutors have decided not to retry a former Searsport elementary school teacher whose conviction on charges he sexually abused a 12-year-old were overturned by the state’s highest ...


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Movie Review

Oleanna

David Mamet's play-turned-film, "Oleanna," is about a number of things -- sexual harassment, higher education, the battle of the sexes, the role of the middle class -- but more than anything, it is about power. The film takes two characters, a pedantic liberal arts professor named John (William H. Macy) and a confused, female student named Carol (Debra Eisenstadt), and depicts their desire for pow ... ...

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  • RI Senate approves bill on preventing child abuse

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - The state Senate has approved a bill that would require public schools in Rhode Island to teach children how to protect themselves against child sexual abuse and ...

  • Vt. man accused of choking child

    BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont man has been accused of choking an 8-year-old child three times has been arrested on assault and obstruction of justice ...

  • Harpswell woman takes koi fight to high court

    AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - A Harpswell woman is taking her fight with state wildlife officials over her right to keep exotic pet fish to the state’s highest ...

  • RI couple upset at finding cemetery flags in trash

    MIDDLETOWN, R.I. (AP) - A Rhode Island woman and her husband are looking for answers after they went to a cemetery in Middletown and found numerous small American flags that had adorned gravesites dumped in a trash ...

  • Jackson returning to Lakers JUN 20

    Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak recently about the team and expects to have more moving forward. Jackson was careful not get into specifics of his conversation with Kupchak about ...

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