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Saturday, November 7, 2009

Neighbors aim to silence Old Ironsides’ cannons

AVAST YE, YUPPIES: Residents of a high-priced Charlestown condo complex complain the USS Constitution’s twice-daily cannon blasts are too loud for them.
By Hillary Chabot
Old Ironsides’ upscale Charlestown neighbors are trying to pull off what British,...
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‘Man of morals’ mourned

SOLEMN: Megan Van De Giesen follows the casket of her husband, Marine Capt. Kyle Van De Giesen, as it is carried out of St. Mary’s Church in North Attleboro yesterday.
By Marie Szaniszlo
A courageous 29-year-old Marine helicopter pilot - killed in Afghanistan days before...
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Hard times force earliest Salvation Army kettle drive

PLEASE HELP: Carlos Quinonez rings the bell for the Salvation Army yesterday near Faneuil Hall.
By Richard Weir
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Hub streets as Salvation Army...
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T rider’s photo leads to arrest of alleged groper

HERNANDEZ: Pic snapped by T rider.
By Laura Crimaldi
The fed-up T rider who snapped a cell phone picture of an accused serial groper who...
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Cops get second crack at dealer cleared by SJC

By Michele McPhee
A convicted crack pusher sprung from prison after the state’s highest court ruled Boston police violated his rights...
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Two guilty of trafficking young girls for sex

By O’Ryan Johnson
Two men accused of running a brutal teen sex racket - where the pimps marked one girl in their stable with a facial scar,...
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‘More disruptive ... than you might have imagined’

Excerpts from letters of complaint sent by Charlestown neighbors to Commander Timothy Cooper of the USS Constitution. ...
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Ex-paper business goes up in flames

By Staff and wire reports
A three-alarm blaze raged through the former Merrimack Paper Co. in Lawrence last night, engulfing one of its buildings in flames but injuring no one, officials...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Outrage over terror speaker

CONTROVERSIAL: Convicted bomber Raymond Luc Levasseur speaks at a 2006 university press conference in Maine.
By Michele McPhee
Gov. Deval Patrick pulled the plug on a planned UMass speech by a convicted terrorist...
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Fort Hood soldier from Tyngsboro shocked by shooting

Military Police Sgt. Andrew Hagerman, center, of Lewisville, Texas, speaks to reporters describing his encounter with Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan after the shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, early today.
By Laura Crimaldi
A Tyngsboro native stationed at Fort Hood said today he was stunned to learn fellow...
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Victim snaps alleged T groper on cell phone camera

Hugo Hernandez
By Laura Crimaldi
An accused serial T groper who was photographed with a cell phone camera by one of...
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Belmont High School train tragedy

RAIL HORROR: A Belmont High School student is covered by a sheet on the tracks in front of a stopped commuter rail train at the scene of yesterday’s fatal accident in Belmont.
By Laura Crimaldi and Edward Mason
A Belmont High School student struck and killed by a commuter rail train yesterday...
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Double bunks blamed in violent prison attack

By Laura Crimaldi
After a violent slashing attack on correctional officers, union leaders and a prisoner advocate are blasting the double-bunking...
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North Attleboro Marine’s death ‘hits close to home’

Megan Van De Giesen, wife of Marine Capt. Kyle Van De Giesen, follows the casket bearing her husband after the funeral Mass. today at St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception Church in North Attleboro.
By Marie Szaniszlo
More than a thousand people turned out in North Attleboro this morning for the funeral...
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Judge weighs dead woman’s right to cash

HEARTBROKEN: Olga Davis holds a photo of her slain daughter, Debra, in 2001. She died before her suit against the government was decided.
By Laurel J. Sweet
Whether a dead woman is entitled to loss-of-companionship damages 28 years after...
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Ortiz confirmed as state’s first Hispanic U.S. attorney

by Associated Press
Carmen Ortiz has been confirmed as the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts, becoming the first...
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A lifetime of neighborhood memories

Joe Fitzgerald
by Joe Fitzgerald
Once in a while, Mike McElhinney confides, “I’ll dream...
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No boys allowed
A bar patron flushed a suspected pervert from the ladies room Wednesday night. Police report a female patron of...
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