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Death toll still rising in El Salvador floods

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:03:34 -0500

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Three days of heavy rains in El Salvador touched off floods and slides that left at least 91 people dead, officials said yesterday. Dozens...

UC Berkeley students make world-record California sushi roll

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:02:01 -0500

BERKELEY, Calif. - It began with ninjas and it ended with tofu, and somewhere in the middle hundreds of amateur sushi rollers set a new world record. The world's longest...

Hub to honor Pearl Harbor hero

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:33:55 -0500

Getting on a plane to cross the country is hard enough when you are half as old as John William Finn. But this 100-year-old California boy has never really subscribed to the...

Monday morning briefing

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:31:23 -0500

While President Obama has been busy helping Gov. Deval Patrick fill his campaign coffers, former Gov. Mitt Romney has made the rounds for Republican candidates over the past...

Police: 3 women gunned down while in car with kids

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:01:08 -0500

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - Investigators on Sunday captured a man they believe opened fire on a car parked at a gas station, killing three women, including an acquaintance of...

Woman charged in Scouts swipe

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:59:20 -0500

WORCESTER, Mass. - A woman is headed to court to answer allegations that she stole $225,000 from the Boy Scouts. Cheryl Allen, 44, of Millbury is scheduled to be arraigned...

Courtroom arson try suspected

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:59:07 -0500

Someone attempted to set fire to Dorchester District Court, said police who found a glass bottle with an "unknown gelatin-like substance" on a partially charred...

Bay State to recognize armed forces for Veterans Day

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:58:46 -0500

Massachusetts will honor the armed forces with a series of observances through Veterans Day on Wednesday. The Massachusetts National Cemetery in Bourne held its annual...

Late-night Brighton stabbing leaves man dead

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:58:30 -0500

A 24-year-old man was stabbed to death early yesterday morning on a Brighton street corner packed with revelers exiting bars after last call. Boston police say a fight...

Today's weather will have tails wagging

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:57:46 -0500

Bay Staters will fetch some extra warm temperatures early this week before a cold front takes a bite out of the nice weather on Veterans Day. Although temperatures will...

Michael Capuano ranks 10th in Congress for skipping votes

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:55:32 -0500

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano has missed more Capitol Hill votes than all but nine of the nation's 435 members of Congress, skipping key tallies this year on veterans issues,...

Dining tabs at odds with Michael Capuano's image

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:41:23 -0500

U.S. Rep. Michael Capuano, a shirtsleeve Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate who has crafted a working-class image as an average guy from Somerville, has dined at high-end...

Councilor to sink battleship complaints

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:22:22 -0500

A Boston city councilor is fired up over attempts by high-end condo owners to muzzle Old Ironsides' twice-daily cannon blasts, calling their complaints of excessive noise...

1 dead in Vail bar shooting, suspect arrested

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:18:44 -0500

VAIL, Colo. - A 63-year-old man suspected of fatally shooting one person and wounding three others in a Vail bar has been arrested in what authorities say was an apparently...

Philly transport talks stall

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:16:09 -0500

PHILADELPHIA - Commuters in the City of Brotherly Love have been told to gear up for a second week of no local public transportation following the collapse of a proposed deal...

Wig can't shield top mobster from capture by Italian cops

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:15:03 -0500

ROME - Italy hailed the capture yesterday of a wig-disguised mobster who had been on the list of the country's top 30 fugitives. Defense Minister Ignazio La Russa's...

Hillary Clinton warns fall of wall a call to action

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:54:55 -0500

BERLIN - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urged Europeans and Americans yesterday to see the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall as a call to action against...

Powerful pols vow to kill health plan

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:52:23 -0500

WASHINGTON - The glow from a health-care triumph faded quickly for President Obama yesterday as Democrats realized the bill they fought so hard to pass in the House has nowhere...

Topless coffee shop comeback?

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:19:10 -0500

VASSALBORO, Maine - The owner of a topless coffee shop that burned down in a June arson fire wants to reopen his business in an office trailer. Donald Crabtree said he...

Crusading students investigated

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:59:35 -0500

CHICAGO - Northwestern journalism students who spent three years investigating the case of a man convicted in the 1978 killing believe they have evidence that shows prosecutors...

Calif. pol calls for probe of E. coli risk in school lunches

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:52:12 -0500

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee wants an investigation into the risk of deadly E. coli getting into school lunches. Rep. George Miller...

Fort Hood suspect linked to 9/11 hijackers' mosque

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:47:50 -0500

WASHINGTON - The alleged Fort Hood shooter has ties to the same Virginia mosque that two Sept. 11 hijackers attended in 2001, at a time when a radical imam preached there. ...

Piercing rule rings true

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:39:50 -0500

To 12-year-old Suzannah Pabla, piercing her nose was a way to connect with her roots in India. To Suzannah's school, it was a dress-code violation worthy of a suspension. ...

Sullied Afghan prez vows no more corrupt officials

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:36:55 -0500

KABUL - The embattled Afghan president vowed yesterday that there would be no place for corruption in his new administration - a demand made by Washington and its international...

La., Miss. on hurricane watch as Ida nears

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:34:19 -0500

CANCUN, Mexico - Hurricane Ida swiped the resort city of Cancun yesterday as it steamed north toward the Gulf of Mexico, where officials issued a hurricane watch for coastal...