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Celtics, Clippers reopen talks

BOSTON The Celtics and Los Angeles Clippers reopened discussions about a potential blockbuster deal that would send Celtics coach Doc Rivers and Kevin Garnett to the Clippers for center DeAndre Jordan and two first-round draft picks, NBA sources told the Globe. According to NBA sources, the Clippers, acting on the wishes of All-Star point guard […]

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Sox bats quiet in 6-2 loss to Rays

BOSTON Red Sox starter Ryan Dempster received plenty of support from his manager Wednesday night. What would really help is if he got a little more help from Boston’s hitters. Dempster allowed three runs over six innings, but lost for the fourth time in six starts as the Red Sox mustered just seven hits in […]

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In 50 years, huge strides for gay rights movement

There was a time when homosexuality was deemed a mental disorder by the nation’s psychiatric authorities, and gay sex was a crime in every state but Illinois. Federal workers could be fired for the mere fact of being gay. That time wasn’t long ago — just 50 years. Today, gays serve openly in the military, […]

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Key dates for gay rights movement in U.S.

¦ SOME IMPORTANT events inthe history of the gay rights movement in the United States: — 1950: Mattachine Society,widely considered the first nationalgay rights organization, is formed.— 1957: Frank Kameny is firedfrom job as governmentastronomer because he’s gay; hisappeal later reaches SupremeCourt before being denied.— 1969: Stonewall Inn riotsbreak out after patrons of New YorkCity […]

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THIS WEEK IN THE CIVIL WAR

More fighting rages in Virginia 150 years ago during the Civil War after the major cavalry battle at Brandy Station, Va. Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee dispatches a sizable column of soldiers from the Army of Northern Virginia to scatter Union rivals from the Shenandoah Valley. The valley that slants northeastward in the shadow of […]

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Arrest in Lisbon armed robbery

LISBON Police arrested a man Thursday in connection with the May 29 armed robbery of a Lisbon Falls convenience store. After a monthlong investigation, Lisbon police Detective Bill Tapley said evidence at the scene of the Big Apple at 634 Lisbon St. linked Joshua Philbrook, 23, to the incident. Philbrook was arrested without incident at […]