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Man sought for unprovoked head smacking at North Station

Transit Police report they are looking for a guy they say started an argument with another passenger, then " struck him on the side of the head with an unknown object" around 2 p.m. on Sunday. If he ...
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Brown shooter also murdered MIT professor - whom he went to college with - prosecutors say

Claudio Neves Valente, who authorities say killed himself as law enforcement closed in on him at a Salem, NH self-storage facility tonight, killed not just two Brown students on Saturday, but an MIT ...
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Police probe possible connection between Brown, MIT murders

WCVB reports that authorities are looking at a possible connection between Saturday's mass shooting at Brown University that left two dead and Monday's murder of MIT nuclear physicist Nuno Loureiro at ...
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State could replace venerable Beades bridge with another drawbridge - or one that would bar boat passage

The Dorchester Reporter reports the state is weighing two options for replacing the superannuated Morrissey Boulevard bridge - one would continue to get it up to allow boats to pass underneath, the ...
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Contractors begin tearing down ill fated Cambridge condos before they collapse

John McMahon sent his drone up today to capture the beginning of the demolition of the Riverview Condominiums, 221 Mt. Auburn St. in Cambridge. Read more.
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Music cafe in the Leather District, Nepalese restaurant in Allston and Dominican restaurant at Roxbury Crossing granted full liquor licenses

The Boston Licensing Board today granted valuable full liquor licenses to restaurants in three neighborhoods. Read more.
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Keolis teams with train manufacturer in bid to keep running commuter rail as T looks to move to more frequent, maybe even electric, trains

The MBTA announced today that Keolis, the French-based concern that currently operates commuter-rail service, is one of three finalists to continue running the Purple Line, but in a joint venture with ...
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On the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, protesters dumped ice into the harbor

Ron Newman took part in last night's Boston Ice Tea Party, on the anniversary of the Boston Tea Party. It started at Old South Church downtown. Protesters then marched to Fort Point Channel, where ...
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Owners of two small Mattapan Square markets charged with more than $6 million in SNAP fraud and selling rice stolen from programs feeding starving children

Two men who run neighboring micro-markets on Blue Hill Avenue in Mattapan Square - one just 150 square feet - were arrested today on federal charges they paid cash for SNAP benefits and sold rice ...
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DA: Spitting man provided the DNA evidence investigators needed to tie him to a 1997 murder in Codman Square

Brian Keazer, 50, of Jamaica Plain, was ordered held without bail at his arraignment today on charges he stabbed Ruth Foster 37 times in her Codman Square apartment in 1997, the Suffolk County ...
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Harvard's Grim Reaper gets eight years for carving, selling off parts from bodies in the medical-school morgue

A federal judge yesterday sentenced now former Harvard Medical School morgue manager Cedric Lodge to eight years in federal prison for the way he ran the morgue as a supermarket for the sort of people ...