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Obama backs fellow Democrat Markey in Senate race (Boston Globe)

(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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Senators From Massachusetts, Illinois Place Bets On Stanley Cup (Huffington post)

(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. Read More... More on Stanley Cup

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Dems pouring money, Obama into Mass. Senate race (Boston Globe)

(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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Candidates in Mass. US Senate race clash in debate (Boston Globe)

(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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Obama Eliminates Hot Meals for Marines, Dines on Chocolate Opera Cake (fpm)

(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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Tamerlan Tsarnaev and 3rd Muslim Killer Responsible for Murder of 3 Jews on September 11 (fpm)

(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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FIRST ON ORLANDOSENTINEL.COM Estranged wife steps forward as Ibragim Todashev's next-of-kin (orlandosentinel)

(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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Zoltan Mesko whips out another round of Zolioke (bostonherald)

(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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Report: Man shot by FBI lunged at agent with sword (orlandosentinel)

(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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Facing controversy, Obama political value unclear (Boston Globe)

(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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Reports: Aaron Hernandez, Patriots Tight End, Questioned In Murder Investigation (courant-sports)

(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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Gabriel Gomez: NSA Phone Records Seizure 'Was An Absolute Overreach' (Huffington post)

(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. Read More... More on Republicans

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Mass. US Senate race debate shifts to economy (Boston Globe)

(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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Why Did the FBI Kill an Unarmed Man and Clam Up? (Atlantic Politics Channel)

(5/30/2013) Law enforcement can't get its story straight in the worrisome case of Ibragim Todashev.

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Real-life 'Walter White' arrested in Mass. : teacher battling cancer was 'trafficking meth' (New York Post)

(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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Markey, Gomez prep for final US Senate debate (Boston Globe)

(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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Markey says Biden will make campaign swing in Massachusetts (Boston Globe)

(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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Massachusetts teen accused of Facebook terror post freed (Reuters)

(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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Fetch! Robot retrievers compete in $1.5 million NASA contest (Reuters)

(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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Carnegie man arrested in Boston following Pens loss (pittsburghtribune-review)

(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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