The U.S. Department of Transportation is hoping states will use the returned money for projects that put people back to work.
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Boston College football eager to bounce back in 2012
Boston College is coming off its worst season since the turn of the millennium, and quarterback Chase Rettig is making it his job to turn things around.
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NH Festival of Fireworks canceled due to bomb threat
“At this early stage of the investigation, we have been unable to develop sufficient facts … that provide a level of confidence that the security of the event can be assured,” the police chief said.
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Snowe: Navy will repair nuclear sub ravaged by fire
The Navy announced Friday it will repair the USS Miami, which suffered $400 million in damage during a fire in Kittery.
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Navy’s oldest commissioned warship to sail again
The USS Constitution, first launched in 1797, will be tugged from its berth in Boston Harbor on Sunday to celebrate the 200th anniversary of its victory in the War of 1812.
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Report accuses U.S. general’s lavish travel, spending
The four-star general who’s under investigation used military vehicles to take his wife shopping and to spas, and charged an overnight stay in Bermuda to the government.
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Ryan’s hometown and the route back to prosperity
JANESVILLE, Wis. — A defining moment for Paul Ryan’s hometown came at the height of the Great Recession: General Motors, after nearly a century of making Chevrolets on the banks of the Rock River, shut down its oldest assembly plant and erased 6,000 jobs. A defining question of the campaign Ryan joined this week as […]
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Boston College AD DeFilippo says he’ll retire
Boston College athletic director Gene DeFilippo said on Friday that he was stepping down after 15 years, a tenure in which he stabilized the program in the aftermath of gambling scandal, led it into a new conference and collected four NCAA men’s hockey championships.
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Maine’s July unemployment unchanged from 2011
But overall, Maine’s jobless rate is still better than the U.S. estimate of 8.3 percent.
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Maine’s Ron Paul delegates seek injunction against RNC
The 21 delegates from Maine say the Republicans are exceeding their authority in their effort to deny seating them at the Republican National Convention later this month.