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    Taoiseach Enda Kenny has spent the weekend in Boston, Massachusetts furthering the strength of U.S. -Ireland relations. The head of Ireland's government attended a function on Saturday at the JFK Library to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of President Kennedy's 1963 visit to Ireland At the ceremony Kenny addressed an audience of U.S. lawmakers and representatives of the business ...

  • Lure Of Late Night Pepperoni Gets 3 Boston Pizza Places In Trouble

    BOSTON (CBS) – The lure of late night pepperoni pizza got some Boston pizza places in trouble. At Boston City Hall the licensing board will decide this week whether there should be sanctions against three pizza places that were cited for staying open too late. Boston Police say on separate occasions, they found University House of Pizza on Huntington Avenue open 90 minutes after its 1 ...

  • Depardieu Boston Bombs Not Chechnyas Fault

    The French actor Gerard Depardieu has said that Chechnya is not to blame for the Boston bombings because the suspects were brought up in America. Speaking in the southern Russian province of Chechnya, where he is shooting a movie with the British actress, Elizabeth Hurley, he said: "I was in the United States when the terrorist act was carried out in Boston. "I agree with Ramzan ...

  • RI homeowners get $150M to date in mortgage relief

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Rhode Island’s attorney general says nearly 2,100 homeowners in the state have received a total of $150 million in relief through the national mortgage settlement but that banks have more to do to comply with the settlement’s ...

  • Vt. gets $6.3M in Homeland Security grants

    MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - Vermont is getting $6.3 million in federal Homeland Security grants to help the state develop prevention and preparedness programs to respond to acts of terrorism and other catastrophic ...


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Movie Review

Blue Streak

Few movies can survive on the charisma of their leading actors alone. Only the strongest performers are able to carry an underwritten movie and make it amount to something, and despite his talent and energy, Martin Lawrence is not one of those actors. Lawrence is at his best when he's teamed with someone of equal or superior energy and talent (Will Smith in "Bad Boys," Eddie Murphy in "Life") bec ... ...

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  • Tea Party group protests outside IRS office in downtown Boston

    About two dozen Tea Party protesters rallied outside the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in downtown Boston today demanding further investigation into the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of some Tea Party and conservative groups for scrutiny when applying for non-profit status. The protest was one of many coordinated Tea Party demonstrations at federal buildings across the country ...

  • Connecticut Judge G. Sarsfield Ford dies at 79

    FAIRFIELD, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut Judge G. Sarsfield Ford, who sentenced serial killer Michael Ross to death in 1987, has died. He was ...

  • Boston Bombing Probe Heads to Russia

    Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (Image credit: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) MOSCOW – A delegation of American lawmakers will travel to Russia next week in part to investigate last month’s Boston Marathon bombings, ABC News has learned. The group, led by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., wants to find out why a 2011 Russian request that the United States investigate Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of ...

  • NHs Shea-Porter introduces pipeline amendment

    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter has introduced an amendment that would protect pipeline activity between Portland, Maine and Montreal, Canada. The amendment introduced Tuesday protects environmental interests from being affected by pending legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, which would carry 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta across six U.S. ...

  • NFL Xbox enhancing interactive television viewing

    The league and Microsoft announced a multiyear agreement Tuesday in which Xbox will provide fans new viewing innovations, including the ability to interact with live games, Skype video chat with other fans, view statistics, access highlights in real time, and gather fantasy information about players and teams - all on a single ...

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