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Wahlberg’s Boston Marathon bombing movie seeks extras

Local residents of the Greater Boston area will have a chance to play a role in the re-telling of one of the region's most harrowing events. Boston Casting, Inc. said it will hold an open casting call in Allston on Sunday, March 13 for extras for the movie

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Massachusetts boy skips birthday gifts, gives to sea turtles

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts 6-year-old's love of sea turtles prompted him to forgo birthday gifts this year and ask instead for money he could donate to sea turtle rescue efforts. Jasper Rose, of Watertown, collected $550 for Boston's New England Aquarium from his birthday earlier this

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Filmmakers seek to recreate Boston Marathon shootout

WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) — Producers of a Mark Wahlberg movie about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing want to recreate the police shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers in the Watertown neighborhood where it happened. Representatives for "Patriots Day" sent fliers to residents of Laurel Street this month asking for their

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Watertown Officers awarded congressional medals of bravery

Written by Andy Metzger WATERTOWN, MASS. As their former chief recounted their firefight with the terrorists who struck the Boston Marathon in 2013, three Watertown police officers were granted the Congressional Medal of Bravery on Friday for their actions more than two years ago.