Tributes poured in for Lt. Edward J. Walsh, a 43-year-old father of three who had almost a decade of experience, and firefighter Michael R. Kennedy, a 33-year-old Marine Corps combat veteran who had been a firefighter for more than six years. Thirteen other firefighters were injured in the blaze Wednesday in the city’s Back Bay […]
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Boston honors fallen firefighters
BOSTON (AP) — Gov. Deval Patrick says “my heart and my condolences” go out to the families and colleagues of two Boston firefighters killed at a fire in the Back Bay. Lt. Edward Walsh and Firefighter Michael Kennedy died Wednesday after becoming trapped in a burning apartment building. Patrick said the “terrible tragedy” is a […]
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Red Sox: Workman knows no guarantees
Brandon Workman enters the 2014 season knowing that he’ll trot out of the home dugout at Fenway Park and pick up his World Series ring on a crisp April afternoon. And that’s where the assurances end for the 25-year-old Boston Red Sox righthander. One of the late-arriving heroes to play a central role in the […]
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Boston Marathon: 3,500 police planned for race
FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — The number of police officers patrolling this year’s Boston Marathon will be doubled to over 3,500, one year after two bombs exploded near the finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 260. The enhanced police presence is part of a beefed-up security plan detailed Monday by public safety officials […]
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Woman crushed to death by Boston drawbridge
BOSTON (AP) — A woman walking across a Boston drawbridge was crushed to death Tuesday after an operator raising the bridge for a boat to pass heard her screams and lowered it, accidentally trapping her between the two plates, investigators said. The woman was crossing the bridge around noon when a bridge operator, not aware […]
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Boston’s Callahan Tunnel to shut down until March
BOSTON (AP) — Drivers who use the Callahan Tunnel to get to Logan International Airport and East Boston will need to find a new route for the next several months. The 52-year-old Boston Harbor tunnel is slated to close at 11 p.m. on Friday for the first phase of a $35 million rehabilitation project. The […]
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Remembering the moment — 50 years ago — when they heard the news
LEWISTON — When the news broke on the afternoon of Nov. 22, 1963, that an assassin had killed President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Carol Hanscombe, Bruce Geoffroy and Barb MacGregor were sitting in school classrooms. W. Wightman Reilly was playing football on that Friday. Rachel Duquette was playing with her dolls. All said the moment […]
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Whitey Bulger gets life for racketeering, killings
BOSTON (AP) — Former Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for his murderous reign in the 1970s and ’80s, bringing to a close a case that exposed FBI corruption so deep that many people across the city thought he would never be brought to justice. Bulger, 84, was […]
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Jean Gowen Walden
1935 – 2013 GREENWOOD, Ind. — Jean Gowen Walden, 78, of Greenwood, Ind., transitioned to her eternal home Saturday, Nov. 9, following a courageous battle with cancer. She was born in Springvale on April 24, 1935, the daughter of Fred G. Sr. and Glenna Hobbs Gowen. Jean graduated from Sanford High School and attended Gordon […]
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In the Crease: Back to normal on Boylston Street
BOSTON — The air was festive; the people, jovial. Legions of revelers lined the sidewalks, filled the doorways and huddled in empty lots and parks, intent on celebrating a sporting event that had united an already tightly knit city. Some stepped on or bumped into one another unintentionally while attempting to procure the best possible […]