BOSTON — As the state Senate begins debate Wednesday on a more than $36 billion state budget, medical marijuana advocates are objecting to proposed amendments they say will impose new taxes on low-income, chronically ill patients and further delay opening of state-licensed dispensaries. Matthew Allen, executive director of the Massachusetts Patient Advocacy Alliance, said his […]
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Bates grad William Worthy, longtime reporter, dies at age 92
BOSTON (AP) — William Worthy, a foreign correspondent who defied travel bans to Cold War adversaries of the United States, has died. He was 92. Worthy died May 4 at a nursing home in Brewster, Massachusetts, according to the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. He was a Nieman Foundation fellow from 1956 to […]
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Boston Marathon: For local runners, crossing finish line well worth the training
For months, thousands of runners — including many from Maine — trained hard to run in one of the world’s marquee marathons in Boston, a race beset a year ago by unfathomable tragedy. Monday, with the finish line in sight, with the runners seeing the yellow-and-blue banners in the distance on a street stuffed with […]
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The Hot Corner: They run, and we all win
The bad guys lost. That’s what today — the past year, really — is about in Boston. In New England. In America. On the continuum of responding to tragedy, specifically the finish-line bombings at the 2013 marathon, I stand tiptoeing the edge closest to David Ortiz’s defiance and lean away from the rest of the […]
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118th Boston Marathon: Local runners see triumph emerging from tragedy
LEWISTON — Paula Rousseau’s first Boston Marathon was everything she had dreamed and more. Then, 20 minutes after crossing the finish line, the Lewiston woman heard the first explosion. Sitting in an alley about a block away with her running partner Barbie Clement, Rousseau initially thought maybe it was a part of the historic race’s […]
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Man arrested after backpacks found at site of Boston Marathon bombings
BOSTON (AP) — A man taken into custody near the Boston Marathon finish line late Tuesday, the anniversary of the deadly pressure cooker bombings, had a rice cooker in his backpack and was being charged with possession of a hoax device, police said. The man was stopped by an officer who saw him acting suspiciously, […]
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Sox, Sizemore put Yankees on hold
NEW YORK (AP) — Grady Sizemore hit a three-run homer in the sixth inning and the Boston Red Sox finally gave Jon Lester enough run support for his first win of the year, 4-2 over the New York Yankees on Friday night. Jonny Gomes led off the sixth with another long ball off CC Sabathia, […]
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Boston mourns two firefighters killed in blaze
Tributes poured in for Lt. Edward J. Walsh, a 43-year-old father of three who had almost a decade of experience, and firefighter Michael R. Kennedy, a 33-year-old Marine Corps combat veteran who had been a firefighter for more than six years. Thirteen other firefighters were injured in the blaze Wednesday in the city’s Back Bay […]
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Boston honors fallen firefighters
BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Deval Patrick says “my heart and my condolences” go out to the families and colleagues of two Boston firefighters killed at a fire in the Back Bay. Lt. Edward Walsh and Firefighter Michael Kennedy died Wednesday after becoming trapped in a burning apartment building. Patrick said the “terrible tragedy” is a […]
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Red Sox: Workman knows no guarantees
Brandon Workman enters the 2014 season knowing that he’ll trot out of the home dugout at Fenway Park and pick up his World Series ring on a crisp April afternoon. And that’s where the assurances end for the 25-year-old Boston Red Sox righthander. One of the late-arriving heroes to play a central role in the […]