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BOSTON – Mayor Marty Walsh unveiled the 2016 Boston Marathon street banners at Marathon Sports on Boylston Street Friday, taking the occasion to announce the second annual "One Boston Day" celebration of the city's resilience, generosity and strength. The commemoration is designed to provide an opportunity to
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BOSTON (AP) — Boston's top law enforcement official says the attacks in Belgium have added a sense of urgency to securing next month's Boston Marathon. Police Commissioner William Evans told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday that he has no information suggesting a specific threat against
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BOSTON – A helicopter equipped with radiation-sensing technology will make several low passes over the 26.2-mile Boston Marathon route later this week to measure naturally occurring background radiation ahead of the 120th annual race next week. Between Tuesday and Friday, the National Nuclear Security Administration will use the chopper to
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BOSTON – On Friday, Greater Boston residents will celebrate the second annual "One Boston Day," which Mayor Marty Walsh officially designated in a proclamation on Monday, commemorating the April 15, 2013, Boston Marathon bombings and the public response spurred by the attack. "The camaraderie and spirit of togetherness
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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Four men acquainted with a gunman who killed two people in Copenhagen were acquitted of abetting terrorism Tuesday. Two of them, however, were convicted of illegal arms possession. Copenhagen's City Court cleared Bhostan Khan Hossein, 26; Liban Ahmed Saleban Elmi, 20; Ibrahim Khalil Abbas, 23;
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The terrorist group that President Barack Obama famously referred to as the "JV team" may be gaining ground in Canada and Mexico. On Wednesday an Islamic State sympathizer blew himself up in Ontario during an encounter with police, and another man arrested in Ohio reportedly told federal investigators
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WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen Kelly Ayotte is calling on President Barack Obama to "tell the truth" about terrorist detainees who have "reportedly killed Americans and our allies" after being released from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba. Guantanamo has been a frequent subject for Ayotte,
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BOSTON – In a move reminiscent of its one-time parent, the Boston Globe put its editorial opinion front and center Thursday, wrapping the newspaper with a package urging tighter gun controls under a red-letter headline: "Make it stop." The paper's move reflected a Dec. 5 New York
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