Boat traffic is backed up on the busy waterway, but an environmental disaster appears unlikely.
2013
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Immigration reform jointly backed
Senators from both parties propose an overhaul that could lead to citizenship for millions here illegally.
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Iran rockets monkey on suborbital space flight
The mission touches on concerns that Iran’s rocket expertise could be used for long-range missiles.
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Black Bloc: Masked men defend Egypt protesters
Their emergence raises concerns that the group could spark retaliation by Islamist vigilante militias.
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Rondo’s year is over, but not Celts
Boston still has hope of making the playoffs without the ‘heart and soul’ of its team.
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R.G. Stern, University of Chicago teacher and writer, dies at 84
CHICAGO – Richard G. Stern taught literature and creative writing at the University of Chicago for 46 years while establishing himself as a writer of novels and essays that won a devoted, if never especially wide, following. Stern, 84, died of cancer Thursday at his home in Tybee Island, Ga., said his son Andrew. Stern, […]
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Mali military enters city of Timbuktu
Islamist militants flee the city after setting fire to a library holding 20,000 irreplaceable manuscripts.
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Maine Milestones
Isabel Dawson and Henry Westphal of Portland were among the age-group winners at the Elks Hoop Shoot state championship, held Sunday at Bangor High School. Dawson finished first in the girls’ 10-11 division, and Westphal won the boys’ 10-11 division. Other winners were: Jaycie Christopher of Skowhegan, girls’ 8-9; Connor Marquis of Pittsfield, boys’ 8-9; […]
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Tom Caron: Hamilton looks like he belongs in Boston — now
BOSTON – Technically, it’s decision time for the Boston Bruins. Monday night, 19-year old wunderkind Dougie Hamilton played his fifth NHL game. Under the lockout-adjusted rules of this 2013 season, NHL teams must return prospects to their junior team before six games if they want to keep that player from becoming a rookie (and starting […]
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Russia prepares to put dead lawyer on trial
MOSCOW – Russia is preparing to put lawyer Sergei Magnitsky on trial, even though he died in 2009, an unusual twist in a case that has become a byword for Russian corruption and severely strained U.S. relations with Moscow. Russia’s top court ruled in 2011 that posthumous trials are allowed, with the intention of letting […]