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Disaster averted at Northeastern building collapse

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:23:41 -0400

Green Line service along Huntington Avenue has resumed now that an engineer has determined that vibrations from the train will not cause further damage at the site of a partial...

Clinton: White House vetting process a 'nightmare'

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:22:13 -0400

WASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says an exhaustive White House vetting process is to blame for the Obama administration's failure to so far name...

McCain looks to cut funding for more F-22 jets

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:12:35 -0400

WASHINGTON - Sen. John McCain wants to remove the $1.75 billion recently inserted into the proposed 2010 defense budget for more fighter jets from Lockheed Martin. The...

Report: NKorea's Kim has pancreatic cancer

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:08:57 -0400

SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea's authoritarian leader Kim Jong Il is suffering from pancreatic cancer and is not expected to live more than five years, a news report...

Officials: CIA program targeted al-Qaida leaders

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:58:55 -0400

WASHINGTON - Government officials say the secret intelligence program canceled by CIA Director Leon Panetta in June was meant to find and kill or capture al-Qaida leaders...

Appeal of the outdoors tough sell to video game generation

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:57:02 -0400

Look around next time you're out fishing. Chances are that a lot of your fellow anglers will remember where they were when John F. Kennedy was shot. It turns out adults...

Former Senator Bob Dole hospitalized

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:56:42 -0400

WASHINGTON - Doctors have performed a skin graft on former Sen. Bob Dole's left leg and a spokesman says he is recovering nicely. Dole has been hospitalized at Walter...

Man allegedly punched over barking dog dies

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:43:02 -0400

A man accused of sucker-punching an Abington Marine over a dispute about a barking dog could face more serious criminal charges now that the victim has succumbed to brain...

GOP's Graham predicts Sotomayor OK 'barring meltdown'

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:42:53 -0400

WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats praised Sonia Sotomayor as a judicial pioneer, but Republicans questioned her impartiality and President Barack Obama's views as well today...

Chicago mayor's security guard captures escapee

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:35:08 -0400

GRAND BEACH, Mich. - A convicted killer who was one of three inmates who escaped from the Indiana State Prison was caught Monday near the vacation home of Chicago Mayor Richard...

Body in Hoosac River confirmed as missing Conn. man

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:32:08 -0400

NORTH ADAMS - Authorities say a body recovered from the Hoosac River in North Adams has been identified as a missing Connecticut man. The body of 21-year-old Gregory Hillman...

LaToya Jackson claims Michael was killed for money

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:22:20 -0400

LONDON - The heartbroken sister of pop superstar Michael Jackson told British tabloids her brother was murdered for his billion-dollar fortune. "We don't think...

Britain investigates Iraqi man's death in custody

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:15:23 -0400

LONDON - A lawyer claimed Monday that British soldiers forced an Iraqi detainee to dance like Michael Jackson as part of widespread abuse and humiliation of civilians in southern...

Abortion protester whisked out of Sotomayor hearing

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:13:48 -0400

WASHINGTON - An anti-abortion protester briefly disrupted the opening of Sonia Sotomayor's Supreme Court nomination hearing. The outburst came during Sen. Dianne Feinstein's...

Christy Mihos says time right to rejoin GOP

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:12:02 -0400

Nearly a year after he first declared his intention to enter the 2010 gubernatorial race, West Yarmouth resident and businessman Christy Mihos hit the road to pitch his case. In...

Japan lifts ban on children donating organs

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:59:16 -0400

TOKYO - Japan lifted a ban today on organ donations from children, reversing a restriction that created such a dearth of small organs in the country that young patients were...

Obama chooses Ala doctor as next surgeon general

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:57:20 -0400

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama turned to the Deep South for the next surgeon general, a rural Alabama family physician who made headlines with fierce determination to...

Plane crashes 40 mins after being sold

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:50:00 -0400

AUBURN, Maine - A Massachusetts man who purchased an airplane from Maine Conservation Commissioner Patrick McGowan was the proud owner for 40 minutes - before it crashed-landed...

Police: Fatal fire may have been set

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:48:04 -0400

SPRINGFIELD - Police say a weekend fire in Springfield that killed a 39-year-old woman is being investigated as a possible homicide. Ana Cruz was the only one in the house...

Animals in the clear

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:47:31 -0400

Gov. Deval Patrick yesterday commuted the death sentences hanging over hundreds of exotic animals at the Franklin Park and Stone zoos, promising no creature will be killed...

No whey: Cheeseman's North End shop nears expiration date

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:46:55 -0400

The most popular cheese in the North End right now? Blue! Fresh Cheese, the gourmet fromagerie and reputed former headquarters of ex-Boston Mafia godfather Carmen "The...

Motive probed in slaying of Fla. pair with 16 kids

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:42:16 -0400

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Investigators are looking at business ties among other leads for a motive in the slaying of a wealthy Florida couple who adopted 12 children with developmental...

Probe launched after four children found home alone

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:15:04 -0400

Four young children are under medical evaluation and the state Department of Children of Families has launched a probe after police found the tots home alone in a Dorchester...

Police probe fatal Jet Ski accident in Wareham

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:27:21 -0400

WAREHAM - A Jet Ski operator died in an accident Saturday in the Wareham River...

Plane crashes in Rochester cranberry bog

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:04:07 -0400

ROCHESTER - A single-engine Cessna, bound for Martha's Vineyard from Nashua, N.H., crash landed in a cranberry bog Sunday afternoon when the plane experienced engine...