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Friday, November 20, 2009

Bay State flu ‘crisis’

AHEAD BY A NOSE: Cyrus Belmont, 4, of Jamaica Plain gets the flu vaccine yesterday at the Martha Eliot Health Center in Jamaica Plain.
By Marie Szaniszlo, Jessica Van Sack, Richard Weir and Edward Mason
Weeks before its predicted peak, the swine flu pandemic already has hit a historic...
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Family troubled by hubby’s claim that wife hanged herself

HEARTBREAKING: Dr. Joan Baruffaldi is seen dancing on her wedding day with husband Robert Harris. Harris claims the Lynnfield mom hanged herself in their Virgin Islands hotel room after a quarrel.
By Laurel J. Sweet
The body of a Lynnfield mother of two lies in limbo while her family - troubled by...
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Cops: Teen got hair done after running down boy

STUNNED: Danny Savanhmixay, above, holds a picture of his stepson, 12-year-old Kelvin, a sixthgrader at the Kathryn P. Stoklosa Middle School in Lowell, who was struck by a vehicle that ran a red light Wednesday afternoon.
By Laura Crimaldi
The 17-year-old girl who allegedly mowed down a Lowell boy on Wednesday got her hair...
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2nd autopsy to be performed in Lynnfield woman’s death

Joan Baruffaldi
By O’Ryan Johnson
Police in the U.S. Virgin Islands have reopened the investigation of a Lynnfield...
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Hub leaps into winter with frozen Frog Pond

STRIKE A POSE: Members of Ice Mates from the Hayden Recreation Center dance at the rink.
By Benjamin Bell
Boston Parks Commissioner Antonia M. Pollak joined two star figure skaters and Hub...
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$10M worth of holiday cheer for Stoneham mom

BIG WINNER: Debra A. Roberto, seen with Lottery executive director Mark Cavanaugh, holds the first of her 20 annual checks for $500,000.
By Katy Jordan
For one Stoneham mom, the holiday season just got $10 million brighter. ...
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John Kerry’s daughter stopped for OUI

Alexandra Forbes Kerry.
By Joe Dwinell and Renee Nadeau
Although not legally drunk, an allegedly tipsy Alexandra Forbes Kerry was yanked...
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Two die in Bay State from swine flu this week

By Colneth Smiley Jr.
A Bay State infant and an adult have died from the swine flu this week, health officials announced today. This brings the...
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Driver hurt, haz-mat responds after Duxbury truck crash

By Laura Crimaldi
Two lanes of traffic are now getting by on Route 3 north after a line painting truck overturned at approximatley 2 a.m. in...
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Three students arrested after Cape Tech protest

A Harwich police cruiser sits outside Cape Cod Regional Technical High School this morning. Police sealed off the school following a student protest earlier today.
By Doug Fraser / Cape Cod Times
HARWICH - Police were called in, and at least three students arrested, when as many...
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Panel OKs $9M for Gillette footbridge

Patriot Place at Gillette Stadium.
By Jay Fitzgerald
New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft will get his pedestrian bridge connecting...
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Prosecutor: Man used power saw to dismember father

By Associated Press
Prosecutors say a Boston man beat his 70-year-old father to death, then used a power saw to cut his body to pieces before...
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Senate panel to mull Bernanke nomination on Dec. 3

By Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s nomination to a second term will be the subject of a Senate Banking Committee hearing next...

Complaints stack up against woodcutter

By George Brennan / Cape Cod Times
SANDWICH — The road name is right out of the "Canterbury Tales," but for residents of Chaucer Street, one neighbor has been a royal pain. For a decade,...

Harvard looks to reduce professor ranks

By Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE — The dean of Harvard University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences said he will reduce the number of professors to help balance a $110...
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Charles Baker cooks up plan to cut pension abuse

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by Hillary Chabot
Job-hopping to inflate state pensions and out-the-door parachutes higher than $90,000 will...
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Deval’s Twittering away any hope of re-election

Howie Carr
by Howie Carr
Is Deval Patrick trying to throw the election? Could he possibly...

Union prez Richard Stutman fires back on teachers’ money

Peter Gelzinis
by Peter Gelzinis
We stuck a symbolic dunce cap on Richard Stutman’s head the other...
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