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  • Troopers selling Boston Strong shirts

    The front of the T-shirt sports a logo reading "Boston Strong" and the date of the bombings: 4-15-13. The back of the shirt is imprinted with "New Hampshire Troopers ...

  • Damaged trains set to be removed from wreck site

    Investigators from National Transportation Safety Board and officials investigate at the scene of the train collision, Saturday, May 18, 2013 in Bridgeport, Conn. Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't ...

  • Innovative schools share ideas to improve learning

    It wasn’t that he wasn’t learning, he said, but he didn’t find what he was learning important and didn’t feel a need to write it down - as homework and papers - to show he knew ...

  • Maine Turnpike traffic falls after toll increases

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - Traffic on the Maine Turnpike fell by 4 percent in the first six months after tolls went up, but toll revenues increased by 16 percent during the same ...

  • Vt. man charged in school bus theft

    Adam Page is charged with three counts of operating without owners consent, leaving the scene of an accident, driving on a criminally suspended license and ...


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Robinsin Crusoe on Mars [DVD]

Robinsin Crusoe on Mars [DVD]

Because it is the closet planet to Earth, Mars has always held a special attraction to both scientists and science-fiction writers. The red planet is so close and yet so far, and it has long captured the imaginations of those who would dare to ruminate on what lies bey ... ...

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  • Former UVM President Coor honored

    BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - The University of Vermont has dedicated a campus building in honoring of 1 of the school's longest-serving presidents, Lattie Coor. The Lattie F. Coor House was dedicated in a ceremony Thursday in front of the College Street building that is the administrative home of the College of Arts and Sciences. Coor served as UVM president from 1976 to 1989. UVM officials say ...

  • Washington scandals intrude on Mass. Senate race

    BOSTON (AP) -- The controversies swirling around the Obama administration - from the IRS targeting of conservative groups to lingering questions about last year's terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya - are threatening to engulf Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate ...

  • Boston changed marathon running but the friendly race vibe remains | Kevin Lynch

    Running my fifth Brooklyn half marathon on Saturday felt like it should and how I had hoped it would be. That is, just like the four other previous ones. I was concerned it might have lost its charm and boisterous atmosphere that ...

  • NH police investigate fatal shooting in Manchester

    Officials say police responded to a report of a shooting at about 11 p.m. Saturday in the vicinity of Pine and Prospect streets, where they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound. The man was treated at the scene and transported to a local hospital, where he later ...

  • Passenger killed in northern Vermont accident

    LYNDON, Vt. (AP) - A passenger has been killed in a car accident in northern Vermont after the driver lost control while swerving to avoid a small animal that was crossing the road. Vermont State Police say 76-year-old Gerda Blasczyk of St. Johnsbury was driving on Route 122 in Lyndon at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday when her car traveled up an embankment and flipped over, coming to a rest upside ...

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