BOSTON (AP) — David Ortiz wants to visit the Boston Marathon finish line Monday after the Red Sox are done with their Patriots’ Day game against Baltimore. Just more than a year ago, two bombs went off near the finish line, less than a mile from Fenway Park, about an hour after the Red Sox […]
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Man arrested after backpacks found at site of Boston Marathon bombings
BOSTON (AP) — A man taken into custody near the Boston Marathon finish line late Tuesday, the anniversary of the deadly pressure cooker bombings, had a rice cooker in his backpack and was being charged with possession of a hoax device, police said. The man was stopped by an officer who saw him acting suspiciously, […]
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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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3,500 people to run in marathon, half-marathon
PORTLAND (AP) — Thousands of people are running in this year’s Maine Marathon. Sunday’s 26.2-mile race goes from Portland to Yarmouth and back. Organizers say about 3,500 people entered to run either the marathon or half-marathon. Both races began at 7:45 a.m. Twenty-seven-year-old Dan Vassallo of Peabody, Mass. won last year’s marathon in 2 hours, […]
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Huddle Up: A Farmington runner’s long road back from true adversity
Maureen McCool vaguely remembers a pop. It was September, 2005, and she and then boyfriend Peter Broderick had just returned home from hiking Mount Coe in Baxter State Park. Working in the yard of her Farmington home, McCool began to feel ill. She couldn’t walk or speak above a very low whisper, and Broderick was […]
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TD Beach to Beacon: Kastor following Benoit’s lead, again
CAPE ELIZABETH — Joan Benoit Samuelson is the queen of American marathon running. Or the living legend. Or choose your own platitude. “She really is the poster child of this sport,” Deena Kastor said. “She was an enormous motivation for a lot of people.” Which leads us to the burning question of what to call […]
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UPDATE: Maine wardens continue search for missing 66-year-old female hiker on Appalachian Trail
UPDATE (9:32 a.m.) … CARRABASSETT VALLEY (AP) — About 30 searchers are heading back out to look for a Tennessee woman who disappeared from the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Wardens say 66-year-old of Brentwood, Tenn., was supposed to meet her husband a week ago in Maine but never showed up. Monday’s search area encompasses about […]
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Boston bombing suspect’s hearing frustrates some
BOSTON (AP) — Survivors of the Boston Marathon bombings got little satisfaction from surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s first public appearance since the deadly attacks. “Not guilty,” was all he said, over and over. The blase-looking 19-year-old, his arm in a cast and his face swollen, entered his pleas Wednesday during a seven-minute arraignment in federal […]