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Turkish man faces penalty in Conn. over ATM scheme

...2011 Cilek and others conspired to install devices on automated teller machines at 11 banks and one credit union in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Prosecutors say the co-conspirators used information captured by the devices and pinhole cameras...

Buerstatte, Philip M.

...of Minnesota; son, Zed Buerstatte of Quebec; sister, Rachel (Eric) Tvedt of Minnesota; brother, Nathan (Angela) Buerstatte of Massachusetts; as well as other family and friends. A memorial gathering will be held at ALL FAITHS FUNERAL CHAPEL, 4058 Lien Road,...

Automaker Tesla takes fight to North Carolina

...in 2010 that halts their expansion. Since then, Minnesota lawmakers unsuccessfully pushed for a similar measure. In New York and Massachusetts, dealers have unsuccessfully sued to shut down the dealer's stores. In Virginia, a judge recently rejected Tesla's...

Letter: Ideologies reflect contradictions

...the debate goes on about the death penalty in Massachusetts with regard to the surviving Boston marathon suspect, I notice a pattern. Liberals are against he death penalty, but are for abortion, while Conservatives are in favor of the death penalty, but against...

Thousands run final mile of Boston Marathon to reclaim triumph

...left, and Pam Vingsness of Newton, Massachusetts, hug each other after crossing the finish line as runners who were unable to finish the Boston Marathon on April 15 because of the bombings were allowed to finish the last mile of the race on May 25, 2013. --...

Memorial Day: Marking veterans' graves becomes history lesson for teens

...holiday.Photo by Mark M. Murray / The Republican In Agawam, Sophomores from Agawam High School placed flags at the graves at the Massachusetts Veterans’ Memorial Cemetery. The cemetery, which opened in 2001, has the graves of more than 7,000 veterans on 61...

Zamansky & Associates LLC Announces That It Is Investigating LPL...

...should be a red flag to an investor.” On February 6, 2013, Reuters reported that LPL paid a $2.5 million fine to settle charges by Massachusetts’ Securities Regulators for failing to supervise sales of nonpublic real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) to its...

Video: Experts predict harsh 2013 hurricane season

...brain damage. Preventing them is a primary goal for many doctors, researchers, and NFL executives. Some school kids in Massachusetts are also trying to tackle the problem. Ken Macleod reports. Big changes for the 2012-2013 season! Watch the current week's...

Lights out on Fresolo's departure

...of how serious his transgressions may have been, and how they might compare to the lamentable litany of other misdeeds by past Massachusetts politicians. Public servants serve at the pleasure of voters and taxpayers. Their salaries and perks are paid for by...

Charter toppers

...charter schools are succeeding because of or in spite of such scrutiny, they are succeeding. It is time to recognize that the Massachusetts charter school formula works well enough to allow the state to take the next logical step: Remove all remaining charter...

Vintage Apple computer auctioned off for $668,000

...end bank... WASHINGTON — Now that tech darling Apple Inc. has been dragged front and center into the debate over the U.S. tax code... NEW YORK — Thomas Sohmers, 17, of Hudson, Mass., has been working at a research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of......

Gays and Corpses

...its best. Showing compassion for the quick and the dead. The quick made news in Tbilisi, Georgia. The dead made news in Worcester, Massachusetts.(Photo: Krynowek Eine/cc/flickr) This site has no copyright on the published material. All content belongs to the...

GOP strategist cut gun-group ads

...anti-Pryor spot POLITICO reported on this week. Sources familiar with the ads said Murphy, who worked on Mitt Romney’s 2002 Massachusetts governor’s race and Meg Whitman’s California governor’s race in 2010, also cut the spots defending Toomey. Toomey was...

Two killed in Angel Flight plane crash in New York

...as investigators search for the pilot, who is missing. The Federal Aviation Administration says the flight originated in Massachusetts and crashed about a half-mile west of Caroga, N.Y., just after 5 p.m. Friday. Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said most...

Flag placing scheduled at Bourne cemetery

...Mass. — The father of a Medal of Honor winner from Massachusetts is again planning to place thousands of U.S. flags on graves at the Bourne National Cemetery. Paul Monti is the father of Army Sgt. 1st Class Jared Monti, who was killed in Afghanistan in June...

New York City adopts new International Symbol of Accessibility

...instead. It's been officially adopted in NYC: After several years of petitioning for change, designers from Gordon College in Massachusetts have come up with an alternative to the traditional stick figure sitting back in a wheelchair. Their new character is...

The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud – review

...We meet her at the age of 42, when she is looking back at a period of her life as an elementary school teacher in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in her late 30s. She became a teacher, she explains, even though she always wanted to be a great artist. But, through...

Days are numbered for Gouldsboro’s iconic hardware store

...foward 42 years, Seward and his wife Mary, a retired teacher, have four kids and eight grandkids, scattered between northern Maine, Massachusetts and Michigan. His 60-hour work weeks have afforded little time for family “as I try to cram my other life into...

Lyme Disease Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment

...on the rise in New England. In 2011, the CDC reported that Vermont had the second highest, New Hampshire had the third highest and Massachusetts had the ninth highest, incidence of confirmed cases of Lyme disease in the United States. Dr Chesney received her...