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  • Police say a 2-year-old boy kidnapped from a Rhode Island home has been found in Providence and is "in good health."
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  • A cleaning crew has found an unexpected mess after arriving at Sea Dog Brew Pub on Nantucket: a 5-foot-long shark blocking the door.
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  • It's oceanfront property with a great view -- and a really bright light.
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  • A Massachusetts couple has won $1 million on a scratch-off lottery ticket they dug out of the trash after inadvertently throwing it away.
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  • Teresa Heinz Kerry, the wife U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, was discharged from a Boston hospital Saturday.
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  • Authorities and witnesses say a van backing out of a parking spot in Massachusetts repeatedly struck a 60-year-old woman pushing her baby granddaughter in a carriage, killing the woman.
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  • The Coast Guard says singer Kelly Rowland was among the passengers on a private boat escorted back to Cape Cod after the captain became disoriented.
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  • A man who had hoped to testify in the racketeering trial of reputed mobster James "Whitey" Bulger and vocally criticized him has been found dead, authorities said Thursday.
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  • A man, driving across a bridge into Boston, suddenly found himself unable to see, when a massive American flag landed across his windshield.
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  • An associate of former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez said he was told Hernandez fired the shots that resulted in the death of a semi-pro football player, according to documents filed in Florida.
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  • Sen. John Kerry and wife Teresa Heinz Kerry attend the United Nations Foundation Annual Leadership Dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010 in New York.
  • The condition of Teresa Heinz Kerry, wife of U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and heir to a ketchup company fortune, was upgraded from critical to fair Monday, a day after she was first hospitalized, a State Department spokesman said.
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  • Patriots TE Aaron Hernandez taken from home in handcuffs
  • Police have charged Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez with murder in connection with the slaying of a semi-pro football player.
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  • Longtime Democratic U.S. Rep. Edward Markey defeated Republican political newcomer Gabriel Gomez in a special election on Tuesday for the state's U.S. Senate seat long held by John Kerry, a race that failed to draw the attention that the state's 2010 special Senate election did.
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  • A regional transit bus crashed into a house in the central Massachusetts town of Auburn, injuring seven people, a fire official said Monday.
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  • New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez (81) stands on the field with head coach Bill Belichick, left, during NFL football practice at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012.
  • ABC News is citing sources as saying an arrest warrant has been issued for star football player Aaron Hernandez.
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  • New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez is being suedby a man claiming Hernandez shot him in the face.
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  • New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez (81) stands on the field with head coach Bill Belichick, left, during NFL football practice at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012.
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  • New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez (81) stands on the field with head coach Bill Belichick, left, during NFL football practice at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Mass., Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012.
  • State and local police spent hours at the home of New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez on Tuesday night as another group of officers searched an industrial park about a mile away where a body was discovered the day before.
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  • The transit police officer who survived a showdown with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has been discharged from the hospital.
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  • Parking is such a precious commodity in Boston that one woman was willing to pay $560,000 for two off-street spaces near her home.
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  • Parking is such a precious commodity in Boston that one woman was willing to pay $560,000 for two off-street spaces near her home.
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  • A Chechen immigrant shot to death in central Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent had several ties to that of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
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  • In this May 4, 2013 police mug provided by the Orange County Corrections Department in Orlando, Fla., shows Ibragim Todashev after his arrest for aggravated battery in Orlando. Todashev, who was being questioned in Orlando by authorities in the Boston bombing probe, was fatally shot Wednesday, May 22, 2013 when he initiated a violent confrontation, FBI officials said. (AP Photo/Orange County Corrections Department)
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  • Commissioners at a Massachusetts cemetery have said no to profanity on headstones.
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  • Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were charged on Wednesday.
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  • This undated photo added on April 18, 2013 to the VK page of Dias Kadyrbayev shows, from left, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, from Kazakhstan, with Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in Times Square in New York. Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, two college buddies of Tsarnaev, were jailed by immigration authorities the day after Tsarnaevs capture.
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  • Two New Jersey men are appealing their prison sentences on terrorism-related charges, arguing federal prosecutors were influenced by the Boston Marathon bombings.
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  • Memorial service for slain MIT police officer Sean Collier
  • Services are being held this week for Ofc. Sean Collier, who was allegedly killed by the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.
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  • Funerals were held Tuesday for the 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombing and the college police officer authorities say was shot by the suspects.
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  • A Pennsylvania man is charged with sexually assaulting underage youths at a Cape Cod camp decades ago.
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  • The FBI has released surveillance photos of two suspects sought in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings on Monday.
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  • Runners observe a 30 second silent in memory of Boston Marathon bombings before the start during the London Marathon, London, Sunday, April 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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  • A defiant, festive mood prevailed Sunday at the London Marathon despite concerns raised by the recent bombings at the Boston Marathon.
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  • The American Civil Liberties Union says it's concerned the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect will be questioned by investigators without being read his Miranda rights.
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  • Bomb-sniffing dogs and military in camouflage fatigues joined the police patrolling Fenway Park on Saturday, when the Red Sox dressed in a specially designed uniform for their first home game since the Boston Marathon.
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  • President Barack Obama pledged to seek answers for the victims of the Boston Marathon explosions about the motives and the planning behind the deadly blasts.
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  • They gathered in silence on Boylston Street, just three blocks away from the chaos and carnage caused by twin bombings four days earlier. Some were crying.
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  • Police Officer Sean Collier
  • The Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer said to have been shot and killed by the Boston Marathon bombing suspects has been identified as 26-year-old Sean Collier.
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  • The FBI has released surveillance photographs of two suspects in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings.
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  • The FBI released the following photos of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings during a press conference on Thursday, April 18, 2013. Suspect #1 is wearing a dark hat. Suspect #2 is wearing a white hat.
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  • The FBI has released surveillance photographs of two suspects in the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings.
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  • Just about everyone you can imagine stopped by Carlos Luis Arredondo's little brick row house Wednesday to hear what he had to say about the Boston Marathon bombing. Reporters flew in from as far away as Paris, friends and neighbors strolled in, even two FBI agents made a visit.
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  • Explosions at Boston Marathon
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  • Explosions at Boston Marathon
  • Investigators are on the hunt for a man seen in a department store surveillance video dropping off a bag at the site of the bombings, a local politician said.
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  • Boston Marathon bombing victims
  • The twin bombs at the Boston Marathon killed three people and wounded more than 170 on Monday.
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  • Explosions at Boston Marathon
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  • Podiatry students from Temple University became caught in the middle of the bombings at the Boston Marathon.
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  • The Associated Press source "stood by the information even after it was disputed."
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