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BOSTON – Several of the state's leading Democrats on Tuesday rushed to back President Barack Obama as he issued an executive order tightening gun controls by beefing up background checks on prospective buyers and imposing new restrictions on sellers. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh traveled to Washington to be one
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BOSTON – A commuter rail train without any passengers derailed north of the Andover station Tuesday morning, a day after transit agency overseers advanced two options for hiking fares this year by roughly 6.7 percent or 9.7 percent. The Haverhill-bound train was moving to set up for morning service,
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BOSTON – After graduating from college in May, New Jersey native Jane Riccardi headed for New England on a rare assignment – to spur on the infant pro-life student movement in one of the most progressive pockets of the country. Although Riccardi, 23, had spent some time as a student working on
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LOWELL — Frigid temperatures and a slow-moving security checkpoint line snaking its way across several city blocks could not deter supporters of Donald Trump, the Republican presidential candidate who rode into the Mill City on Monday night to regale those who packed into the Tsongas Center arena. Strutting to the stage
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NEW CANAAN, Conn. (AP) — Businessman and philanthropist Ted Stanley, who made one of the largest private donations for scientific research, has died, his son said Monday. He was 85. Stanley died peacefully in his bed overnight at his home in New Canaan, son Jonathan Stanley said. No cause of death
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BOSTON – The agency that runs Boston's public transit services is eyeing fare hikes that could punch a hundred-dollar hole in the pockets of regular subway riders over the course of a year, a move one transit advocate likened to "punishing the victim" following recent service failures.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Federal accident investigators are considering launching another search of the wreckage of a freighter that sank in October in an attempt to locate the ship's "black box." Tom Roth-Roffy, the lead investigator for National Transportation Safety Board, told the Associated Press that a
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BOSTON (AP) — America's marquee marathon is ready for its close-up. "Boston," the first feature-length documentary film about the Boston Marathon, is in the works. Its creators say the movie will go well beyond the 2013 bombings to retrace the iconic footrace's first steps in
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