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Top court OKs trial for girl who texted boyfriend urging suicide
BOSTON (AP) — A teenager who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages encouraging him to take his own life and telling him…
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Rep. Fattah took illegal loan for Philly mayor’s race, US says
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah took an illegal $1 million loan to prop up an ailing mayoral bid and obtained…
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Challenge to union campaign-finance loophole set for trial
BOSTON – A trial date has been set in December for a lawsuit challenging a Massachusetts campaign-finance law that lets unions contribute…
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Bulger bid for new trial rejected by appeals court
BOSTON (AP) — Former mobster James "Whitey" Bulger, convicted of participating in 11 murders during the 1970s and '80s, will…
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History repeats itself: The Boston Massacre reenactment
BOSTON — Do your kids think history is boring? They won't when it's re-enacted before their very eyes!…
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Judge orders release of documents in Boston Marathon bombing
BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the public release of hundreds of documents in the case of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar…
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Sampson death-penalty case judge steps aside
BOSTON (AP) — The federal judge presiding over the death penalty trial of a Massachusetts man is stepping down from the case. Gary…
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Bill Cosby faces criminal sex-assault charge in Pennsylvania
NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Bill Cosby was charged Wednesday with sexually assaulting a woman at his home 12 years ago — the first criminal…
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Boston Marathon bomber’s lawyers to argue for new trial
BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are heading to court to urge a judge to grant him a new…
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Salem trial of teenager charged in teacher’s death to begin
SALEM, Mass. (AP) — Lawyers in the trial of a Massachusetts teenager accused of killing his high school math teacher plan to make…
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Teen charged with encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself
Written by Denise Lavoie FAIRHAVEN, Mass. (AP) — At first glance, the text messages appear to show a disturbing case of cyberbullying: one…
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Worker who helped Clinton set up email server takes Fifth
WASHINGTON (AP) — A former State Department employee who helped Hillary Rodham Clinton set up her private email server said he will assert…
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Tsarnaev moved to Supermax
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (joh-HAHR' tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) is now detained in the highest-security prison…
