NH attorney general to investigate video of police beating suspect
The New Hampshire attorney general is launching an investigation after video surfaced Wednesday of police in Nashua punching a suspect who had dropped to his knees and surrendered following a high-speed chase that began in Central Massachusetts. “We will be investigating to determine what force was used, by whom, and if it was appropriate under the law,” Jeffery Strelzin, a senior assistant attorney general, said in an e-mail Wednesday night. Advertisement Officials identified the suspect ..>> view originalJackie Bradley Jr., Red Sox again clobber A's
Jackie Bradley Jr. led South Carolina to a pair of NCAA championships and was a supplemental first-round draft pick by the Red Sox in 2011. An accomplished hitter at every level of the minors, he was in the majors in less than two years.Bradley was an inconsistent hitter with the Red Sox for parts of three seasons, but that wasn’t really who he was as a player. He always believed he could hit the big leagues, even if others were skeptical and the statistics didn’t always show it. Advertisement ..>> view originalDavid Ortiz meets sick child in person at Fenway
David Ortiz promised a sick little boy he would hit a home run for him last month, then improbably delivered, connecting against the Yankees.On Wednesday, 6-year-old Maverick Schutte was at Fenway Park to thank Big Papi in person. Advertisement Maverick accompanied Ortiz for batting practice, then appeared with him on MLB Network. He even took a few swings at balls pitched to him by Ortiz before throwing out the first pitch prior to the Sox playing the Oakland Athletics. Ortiz was the catche..>> view originalLike Bieber, he roamed Boston barefoot. Ughhh.
Did you hear about Justin Bieber’s barefoot walk-about through Boston this week?According to numerous outlets — including this one — the tattooed popstar was spotted shoeless at various places around the city: the Public Garden, a crosswalk, the Four Seasons. Advertisement Why the bare feet? Is Boston particularly conducive to shoelessness? Does Bieber — in town for a pair of TD Garden shows — know something we don’t? Just to be sure, we decided to spend Wednesday afternoon padding around B..>> view originalMLB probing Red Sox for potential violation in international signings
If you haven’t had your fill of league investigations, Boston, here’s another.Major League Baseball recently interviewed Red Sox players in the Dominican Republic as part of an investigation into the club’s international signing practices, an attempt to determine whether the team broke rules to sign players who should have been too expensive for them, the Herald confirmed on Wednesday. The alleged infraction would have been to funnel one player's bonus money to another with the help of an indep..>> view originalJoe Kelly: Boston Red Sox righty makes second rehab start for ...
Joe Kelly made his second rehab start today for the Triple-A Pawtucket Red Sox and gave up one run over 5 innings. Kelly went on the disabled list after leaving his April 19 start at Fenway Park with a right shoulder impingement. In his 5 innings today vs. Scranton/Wilkes-Barre, he allowed five hits and one walk while striking out three. He threw 77 pitches, 48 for strikes (62 percent strikes). The righty made his first rehab start vs. Rochester last Friday, going 3 innings and allowing two ..>> view originalSlain Hero 'didn't think about himself'
A New Bedford art teacher is being remembered as a hero after he sacrificed himself to save the life of a young waitress he didn’t even know during Tuesday night’s deadly rampage by a mentally disturbed man at the Silver City Galleria in Taunton.“He’s a hero,” Rosemary Heath said of her husband, George, 56, who was fatally stabbed before her eyes as he stepped in to thwart 28-year-old Arthur DaRosa’s attack on the waitress.“He unselfishly got up and went and did something. And didn’t think about..>> view originalNBA Draft combine: 5 things to know as the Boston Celtics try to ...
Stephen Curry is back, the San Antonio Spurs are on the ropes, and Brad Stevens would love to be coaching playoff basketball this week. Instead, the Boston Celtics brain trust is at the NBA Draft combine in Chicago, where the team will meet with prospects, watch certain players do basketball things, and hope to gather small bits of new information to help the decision-making process. By this time of year, the Celtics have done plenty of research about the guys they could select in next month'..>> view originalThe chamber's global stage
Chris Morris for The Boston Globe ABC reporter Martha Raddatz credits Boston with jump-starting her career. Martha Raddatz was about to board another flight, bound for Baghdad, Tuesday night. But before the ABC News correspondent headed to Logan Airport, she had a few things to say to Boston’s business community: The long road to her career in foreign affairs journalism can be traced right back to this city. Raddatz told the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce during its annual meeting th..>> view originalBuckley: Pressure's on David Price to ace big test tonight
Save for any showdown that involves the Yankees, tonight’s Red Sox-Astros game at Fenway Park has the potential to be the highest-rated May baseball game that NESN has broadcast in, what, forever?It’s a David Price thing. The man anointed to be Boston’s first true ace since the gummed-up Jon Lester negotiations is on the mound tonight, and we’ll all be tuning in to see if the big guy can turn his season around.Price is the reigning poster child for the old axiom that a pitcher’s won/loss record ..>> view original
Thursday, May 12, 2016
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