Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:15 AM EST
It seemed like a given that Mario Rodas would go to college.
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 3:29 PM EDT
For weeks, Nathaniel Cunningham and his boyfriend secretly lived together in rural Jamaica. They showed no affection in public and rarely spoke to neighbors.
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Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:33 PM EDT
A gay Brazilian man has been denied asylum by the Obama administration and won't be reunited with his Massachusetts husband in the U.S., the husband said Monday.
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Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:04 PM EDT
Sex in a Tufts University dorm is fine. Sex in a Tufts dorm with your roommate present? That's a no-no.
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Sat Sep 26, 2009 1:32 PM EDT
Somewhere among the grassy hills, canopy trees and 19th century angel sculptures rest Butler and Mary Wilson.
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Thu Sep 10, 2009 5:30 AM EDT
Doris Smith Mills often comes across past editions of the "Old Farmer's Almanac" lying around her family's 110-year-old Westport, Mass., farm. She believes previous Smiths read it for entertainment and its yearly weather predictions to ready for New England's fickle climate changes.
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Wed Sep 2, 2009 7:19 PM EDT
A teenage boy visiting a zoo on Wednesday fell into a lion pit that's part of a set for the upcoming Kevin James and Adam Sandler movie "The Zookeeper," but he wasn't badly hurt.
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Sat Aug 29, 2009 5:36 AM EDT
Before 1965, Leticia Hermosa had little chance of crossing the Pacific to the U.S. from the Philippines. Hermosa, a nurse, and others like her just couldn't get through the strict U.S. immigration quota system, which favored Western Europeans and essentially excluded those from Asia and Latin America.
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Mon Jul 27, 2009 6:33 PM EDT
The woman who dialed 911 to report a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. said Wednesday she was wrongly labeled a racist based on assumptions about her and words she never said and hoped the recently released recording of the call would put the controversy to rest.
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Mon Jul 27, 2009 4:52 PM EDT
A Cambridge police sergeant who responded to a 911 call about a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. told dispatchers that Gates was being uncooperative and to "keep the cars coming." Another voice can be heard in the background of the transmission, but it is unintelligible and unclear if it is Gates.
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Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:19 PM EDT
A Cambridge police sergeant who responded to a 911 call about a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. told dispatchers that Gates was being uncooperative and to "keep the cars coming." Another voice can be heard in the background of the transmission, but it is unintelligible and unclear if it is Gates.
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Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:21 PM EDT
A Cambridge, Mass., police sergeant who responded to a 911 call about a possible break-in at the home of black Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. can be heard calling Gates uncooperative during a radio communication with a police dispatcher.
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Thu Jul 9, 2009 7:00 AM EDT
Do you use a sock puppet to secretly keep track of your frenemies?
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Mon Jul 6, 2009 2:41 PM EDT
The updates shot quickly onto the Tehran Bureau Web site as postelection chaos gripped Iran: angry street protests, random police beatings, a defiant warning from the ayatollah of more violence to come.
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Mon Jun 22, 2009 11:10 AM EDT
A lawyer for a former Boston medical student accused of killing a New York City masseuse he met on Craigslist has asked a judge to order prosecutors to prove media leaks didn't taint a grand jury.
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Sun Jun 14, 2009 1:29 PM EDT
Thousands of "American Idol" hopefuls made it through the rain — and the cold — hoping to find their singing respected by the judges as Season Nine auditions kicked off near Boston.
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Fri May 15, 2009 9:10 PM EDT
Max the Border Collie can roll over on command, herd crowds and sit still on a table while his owners eat.
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Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:32 AM EDT
The fiancee of a medical student accused of killing a masseuse he met through Craigslist said Monday she still loves him, but the band hired to perform at their scheduled August wedding said it's been told it won't be needed.
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Fri Apr 3, 2009 1:55 PM EDT
Jayna Dinsmore dressed in a sharp pink blouse and black slacks and made the pitch she hoped would end her five months of unemployment: Experienced marketing manager and analyst. Diverse background. Trade show experience.
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Sat Mar 21, 2009 2:37 PM EDT
A lion rips open a paper bag stuffed with hay and meat. Giraffes chew up old Christmas trees. Asian black bears claw on empty beer kegs.
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Fri Mar 13, 2009 7:39 AM EDT
For years, Ly Van Aggadipo served as the spiritual mentor to many Cambodian refugees in this old mill city, guiding followers at the Glory Buddhist Temple through family issues, work problems and recurring nightmares from the horrors of the Khmer Rouge.
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Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:46 PM EDT
The Associated Press countersued an artist Wednesday over his famous image of Barack Obama, saying the uncredited, uncompensated use of an AP photo violated copyright laws and signaled a threat to journalism.
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Mon Feb 23, 2009 5:27 AM EST
Every Saturday night when he was behind bars, Papo Gonzalez would sit in his dark cell, put on his headphones, turn on "Con Salsa!" and wait for his wife's words over the radio.
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Wed Feb 11, 2009 4:33 PM EST
The former leader of a Massachusetts tribe pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal fraud and embezzlement charges, including violating campaign finance laws while working with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
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Thu Jan 29, 2009 9:02 PM EST
Fourteen news organizations, including The Associated Press and The New York Times Co., are urging a federal appeals court to allow online streaming of a hearing in a music downloading lawsuit the recording industry filed against a Boston University graduate student.
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