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BOSTON (AP) — Denis Leary, Louis CK, Jimmy Fallon and other famous comedians are coming together to raise money for a cancer foundation. The long-running Comics Come Home show takes place Saturday night at the TD Garden in Boston to benefit the Cam Neely Foundation for Cancer Care.
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BOSTON – With summer just around the corner, locals and tourists alike will soon start soaking up some sun at area parks and beaches. But that means more exposure to potentially harmful rays. To help people protect themselves outdoors in Boston, the Melanoma Foundation of New England and the Boston Parks
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Massachusetts
It's going to get harder for teens to buy a pack of smokes in the second largest city in Massachusetts, after the Worcester Board of Health voted to raise the legal age to buy cigarettes to 21 in September. The unanimous vote followed a packed public hearing Wednesday
Massachusetts
BOSTON – Frank DePaola, the general manager of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, will step down at the end of next month as he seeks to focus on his ongoing fight with cancer, state officials said Monday. "As some of you know, Frank has been battling cancer for months and
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TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) — For Kim Vaillancourt, pregnant while staving off aggressive brain cancer, it comes down to this: "The baby saved me. Now it's my turn to save him." Vaillancourt was diagnosed with glioblastoma after going to the hospital for headaches and nausea that came
canada
TORONTO (AP) — Rob Ford, the pugnacious, populist former mayor of Toronto whose career crashed in a drug-driven, obscenity-laced debacle, died Tuesday after fighting cancer, his family said. He was 46. Ford rode into office on a backlash against urban elites. He cast an image sharply at odds with Canada'
Rhode Island
WESTERLY, R.I. (AP) — An 8-year-old Rhode Island boy with terminal cancer whose dying wish to become famous in China reverberated around the world has died. Dorian Murray died Tuesday, according to a post on the boy's official Facebook page.
Barack Obama
In his 2016 State of the Union address last week, United States President Barack Obama declared he wanted America to be the country that "cures cancer once and for all."
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