Author: Denise Lavoie
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‘A real kick in the rear’: Northeast hit by late-season snow
NEW YORK — A blustery late-season storm plastered the Northeast with sleet and snow Tuesday, paralyzing much of the Washington-to-Boston corridor after a stretch of unusually mild winter weather that had people thinking spring was already here. The powerful nor’easter fell well short of the predicted snow totals in New York and Philadelphia but unloaded…
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Cops: Man who shot 2 Boston officers didn’t have gun license
BOSTON — A man who shot two police officers responding to a report of a domestic disturbance was armed with a tactical shotgun and wearing body armor but didn’t have a gun license, authorities said Thursday. The officers were responding to a 911 call from a home in the East Boston neighborhood at about 11…
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Traveling prom dress sisterhood honors friend lost to cancer
ARLINGTON, Mass. – “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” now has a real- life version: The Sisterhood of the Traveling Prom Dress. The last time many of Catherine Malatesta’s friends saw her, she was wearing a huge smile and the deep blue, shimmery dress at her junior prom. Four days later, battling a rare cancer,…
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Prosecutor: Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tsarnaev said martyrs go to heaven
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told a friend a month before the deadly attack that he knew how to make a bomb and said it’s good to be a martyr because you “die with a smile on your face and go straight to heaven,” a federal prosecutor told jurors Monday at…
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10 years later, gay marriage tactics still in use
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save BOSTON (AP) — Supporters and activists routinely ask gay couples to meet with reluctant lawmakers to put a human face on same-sex marriage. They file lawsuits. They use unexpected allies — in some cases,…
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Bombing suspect charged, could face death penalty
BOSTON — The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by their religious faith but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said Monday after interrogating the severely wounded younger man. He was charged with federal crimes that could bring the death penalty. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev,…
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Source: Officials see potential suspect in bombing
BOSTON — Investigators poring over photos and video from the Boston Marathon have an image of a potential suspect in the deadly bombing but do not know his name and have not questioned him, a law enforcement official said Wednesday. The news came with Boston in a state of high excitement over a possible breakthrough…