(5/28/2013) BOSTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is endorsing fellow Democrat Edward
Markey in the special election for the vacant Massachusetts U.S. Senate seat.
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(6 days ago) Senators representing Massachusetts and Illinois wagered home-state staples on
Wednesday on the Stanley Cup Finals.
Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) and
William "Mo" Cowan (D-Mass.) announced their bets on the National Hockey
League's Stanley Cup Finals series between the Chicago Blackhawks and the
Boston Bruins in a Wednesday statement.
Goodies wagered by Durbin and Kirk include 312 beer from Goose Island Brewery
and Chicago's famous Eli's Cheesecake. Warren and Cowan offered Massachusetts
staples, including Sam Adams beer and Legal Seafood's chowder.
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(6/7/2013) BOSTON (AP) — Fearful of another surprise Republican victory, Democrats are
pouring money into the Massachusetts Senate race to succeed John Kerry and
dispatching President Barack Obama to the state to rally party loyalists two
weeks before Election Day.
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(6/6/2013) BOSTON (AP) — Democrat Edward Markey and Republican Gabriel Gomez have clashed
in their first debate in Massachusetts special U.S. Senate election, with each
candidate trying to portray the other as out of step with ordinary citizens.
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(6/1/2013) Obama isn't just cutting hot meals for Marines. He's also firing 20,000
Marines while hiring more IRS agents to enforce ObamaCare.
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(5/22/2013) Dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev and another man — who was killed
by the FBI on Wednesday — murdered three people in Massachusetts
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(5/24/2013) Ibragim Todashev was shot by an FBI agent this week while being questioned
about the Boston bombings and a triple murder.
The estranged wife of Ibragim Todashev, the man shot earlier this week by an
FBI agent while being questioned about a triple murder in Massachusetts and
the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, has stepped forward as his next-of-kin.
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(6/9/2013) Patriots punter **Zoltan Mesko,** along with many current and former
teammates, were at Royale Nightclub earlier tonight for the second annual
**Zolioke** fundraiser.
The event benefitted Boston Children's Hospital, Hasbro Children's Hospital in
Providence, R.I., and Massachusetts General Hospital, places where Mesko
frequently donates his time.
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(5/29/2013) The Central Florida man who was shot last week by an FBI agent while being
questioned about a triple homicide in Massachusetts and his connection to the
Boston Marathon bombing suspects reportedly lunged at the agent with a sword,
the FOX affiliate in Boston reports.
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(7 days ago) BOSTON (AP) — Pressing ahead on a pledge to work harder to help elect
Democrats in his second term, President Barack Obama is visiting Massachusetts
to rally voters ahead of a special Senate election.
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(13 hours ago) NORTH ATTLEBOIRO, Mass. A Sports Illustrated story released Tuesday stated
that New England Patriots tight end and Connecticut native Aaron Hernandez was
questioned by Massachusetts state police investigating the recent murder of an
unidentified Boston man.
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(6/7/2013) As Massachusetts' special election to fill Secretary of State John Kerry's
U.S. Senate seat gains more national attention, Republican candidate Gabriel
Gomez is taking a stand on a national issue.
Gomez weighed in on the NSA's surveillance of phone records, criticizing the
program as an "absolute overreach" on Fox News, the Boston Globe reported.
The GOP candidate's remarks strayed from those of Republicans like Sen.
Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who said he was "glad" the NSA is using phone records
to combat terrorism. Gomez's view more paralleled those of his challenger,
Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who said he has "serious concerns," according to the
Boston Herald.
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(6/1/2013) BOSTON (AP) — The economy in Massachusetts may be faring better than the rest
of the country, but it's still far behind the boom years of the late 1990s
when the state enjoyed dwindling unemployment and surging revenues.
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(5/30/2013) Law enforcement can't get its story straight in the worrisome case of Ibragim
Todashev.
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(5/23/2013) BOSTON -– A Massachusetts teacher has been arrested for trafficking
methamphetamine after he allegedly received a package of the illegal substance
at his school. Stephen Doran, 57, a tutor at the Match Charter Middle School
in the suburb of Jamaica Plain in Boston, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and
held on...
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(Yesterday) BOSTON (AP) — Republican Gabriel Gomez and Democrat Edward Markey are prepping
for their final debate in Massachusetts' special U.S. Senate election.
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(5 days ago) Vice President Joe Biden will visit the Brockton area next week on behalf of
US Representative Edward J. Markey, the Democratic Senate nominee told state
lawmakers on Thursday, according to several people in the room. In a meeting
with dozens of Democratic legislators at a Boston hotel before a State House
ceremony honoring the late Governor Argeo Paul Cellucci, Markey said that this
weekend’s campaign stop in Worcester by former President Bill Clinton would be
followed by a vice-presidential visit. Biden would be the fourth major
national Democrat in less than a month to come to Markey’s aid in his special
Senate election campaign against private equity investor and former Navy SEAL
Gabriel E. Gomez. First Lady Michelle Obama came to Boston last month and
President Obama rallied a Roxbury Crossing crowd on Wednesday.
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(6/7/2013) BOSTON, June 7 (Reuters) - A Massachusetts teenager jailed a month ago for a
Facebook post that suggested he could do worse than the Boston Marathon
bombers was released, a court official said on Friday, after a grand jury
refused to indict him.
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(6/5/2013) BOSTON (Reuters) - Eleven robots faced off in a Massachusetts field on
Wednesday, showing off their ability to independently track down objects in a
hunt for $1.5 million in prize money at a NASA-sponsored contest aimed at
speeding technological development.
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(6/9/2013)
By Tribune-Review
Massachusetts Bay Transit Police arrested a Carnegie man Friday night in
Boston after he threatened a man and became belligerent outside a transit
station following ...
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