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NEW YORK (AP) — Striking Verizon employees may be back to work next week after the company and its unions reached an agreement in principle for a four-year contract. About 39,000 landline and cable employees in nine eastern states and the District of.Columbia struck the telephone and cable-television service
Massachusetts
It appears Bay Staters pay a hefty price and run a greater risk than most whenever they step into their vehicles. According to a recent report published by Nerdwallet, Massachusetts has three of the 20 most dangerous cities in the country for motorists.
crime
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A Connecticut man who federal authorities say was a player in the notorious French Connection heroin ring of the 1960s and 1970s faces sentencing that may include at least five years in prison stemming from a new drug case. Alfred Catino, 75, of Danbury, was among 16
deported
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. tried repeatedly to deport Jean Jacques, an immigrant living in the U.S. illegally, but his native Haiti wouldn't take him back after he served more than a decade in a state prison for attempted murder and committed multiple parole violations. Each time
boston bruins
A list of significant dates in New England history: May 9
Politics
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — One of America's largest troves of political and campaign memorabilia is headed for the auction block, spurring protests from some who do not want to see it divided up and sold to private collectors. The University of Hartford plans to hire an auction house and
Massachusetts
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Federal authorities returned on Monday to search the Connecticut property of a reputed mobster suspecting of having knowledge about the largest art heist in U.S. history. FBI agents went to the Manchester home of Robert Gentile. It wasn't immediately clear why they were there.
Yale
(RNS) — A new residential college at Yale University has been named for an Episcopal saint who was the first African-American woman to be ordained an Episcopal priest. Anna Pauline Murray, known as "Pauli," was also a civil rights activist who helped shape the legal argument for the Brown
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