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Charlestown residents make noise over cannon protests

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:22:33 -0500

Charlestown residents are raising their voices in favor of a naval tradition after several neighbors complained about the USS Constitution's daily gun blasts. Cmdr....

Injured Marine fights to 'move forward'

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:44:15 -0500

The call came on a sunny day in August 2006 as Reta Rae was coming home from work in Arlington. "Mom, it's me," Lance Cpl. Robert Rae said, his voice shaky...

Course puts elder drivers on road to safer driving

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:42:41 -0500

At least once a week, Bill Silen, former chief surgeon at Beth Israel Hospital, drives to Cambridge Hospital to help train third-year Harvard Medical students. Driving...

Petite hero had no fear

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:41:23 -0500

The pistol-packing mama who won a shootout with the man accused of killing 13 people at Fort Hood last week may be small in stature, but looms large in courage, according...

Stop (and go) night traffic

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:40:27 -0500

Drivers are increasingly spinning their wheels in late-night traffic jams throughout eastern Massachusetts due to a glut of state road projects that are creating aggravating...

Following in Gandhi's footsteps

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:25:53 -0500

Arun Gandhi, grandson of political activist and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi, spoke in Boston yesterday to advance his grandfather's lifelong goals of civil rights...

Study finds cops who fight kid porn traumatized by pix

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:23:01 -0500

Cops who spend their shifts trolling the Internet for child predators say they aren't surprised by a study that found some officers are traumatized by the sickening porn...

Drama on the MBTA

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:11:16 -0500

A drunken stumble at the North Station MBTA stop landed a Cambridge woman inches from death when she plunged into the path of an oncoming Orange Line train, authorities said....

Feline unwelcome

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:09:13 -0500

DUDLEY - The for-sale sign went up on Mary Ellen Richards' front lawn recently, the latest salvo in a feud that has become increasingly catty, to say the least. ...

At your service: Memorial would honor military dogs

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:59:49 -0500

For years they have served on the front lines - in World War II, Korea, Vietnam and now Iraq and Afghanistan. But these service members haven't been tossed the bone they...

New road chief urges patience

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:53:59 -0500

Even state honchos aren't immune to late-night traffic jams that are trying the patience of off-hour commuters in Massachusetts. "I'm aware of the motorists'...

Muslims in Boston condemn killer's 'pure criminal act'

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:46:39 -0500

Local Muslims condemned the actions of an Army psychiatrist who gunned down 13 people in Texas Thursday and said they worry about a violent backlash as attention turns to...

To find a class near you...

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:35:22 -0500

Folks can log on to aarp.org/drive and use a locator to find an elderly driver safety course closest to them. They can call the contact number directly or call 888-AARP-NOW...

Exhibit captures blacks' fight for freedom

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:05:09 -0500

"Let Your Motto Be Resistance," the title of this exhibit of 69 African-American notables over 150 years, refers to the stirring words of clergyman Henry Highland...

Marine laid to rest in solemn Cape ceremony

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:57:57 -0500

FALMOUTH - Hundreds of friends and family crowded into the John Wesley United Methodist Church in Falmouth to honor 29-year-old Marine Capt. Eric A. Jones yesterday morning....

Whitey World A-Z: Mario Correnti (1925-?)

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:26:27 -0500

Mario Correnti was lugged by the feds in April 1986 for charges that no one can now remember, although he must have pleaded guilty because the Bureau of Prisons says Correnti's...

Bruins game features full military honors

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:33:41 -0500

Patriotic Boston Bruins fans and players are inviting local military to come watch a game for free in honor of Veterans Day. For the one-night Seats for Soldiers event,...

Observances set in Mass. to mark Veterans Day

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:02:01 -0500

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

'More disruptive ... than you might have imagined'

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:08:47 -0500

Excerpts from letters of complaint sent by Charlestown neighbors to Commander Timothy Cooper of the USS Constitution. Aug. 26, 2009 "Unfortunately,...

Neighbors aim to silence Old Ironsides' cannons

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:08:18 -0500
Old Ironsides' upscale Charlestown neighbors are trying to pull off what British, French and Barbary pirate guns failed to accomplish in more than two centuries - silencing...

Boaters warned about frigid waters

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 10:33:35 -0500
A forecast of sunny skies and mild temperatures this weekend is bound to bring out late-season boaters. But the Coast Guard says they should be aware of just how cold New...

Ex-paper business goes up in flames

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:48:31 -0500
A three-alarm blaze raged through the former Merrimack Paper Co. in Lawrence last night, engulfing one of its buildings in flames but injuring no one, officials said. ...

Outrage over terror speaker

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:26:03 -0500
Gov. Deval Patrick pulled the plug on a planned UMass speech by a convicted terrorist yesterday after a plea delivered by the Herald from the outraged widow of a gunned-down...

Two guilty of trafficking young girls for sex

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:54:20 -0500
Two men accused of running a brutal teen sex racket - where the pimps marked one girl in their stable with a facial scar, and traded other girls like baseball cards - were...

Hard times force earliest Salvation Army kettle drive

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:46:20 -0500
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Hub streets as Salvation Army soldiers, responding to skyrocketing demands from recession-ravaged families, began ringing...