Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Pablo Sandoval to have left shoulder surgery, likely out for season and other top stories.

  • Pablo Sandoval to have left shoulder surgery, likely out for season

    Pablo Sandoval to have left shoulder surgery, likely out for season
    Red Sox third baseman Pablo Sandoval will undergo surgery on his left shoulder in the coming days and will miss the remainder of the season, a major league source said on Monday night.Dr. James Andrew examined Sandoval, 29, at his clinic in Gulf Breeze, Fla., on Monday and it is Andrews who will perform the surgery. Advertisement The Red Sox reserved comment until after the surgery and did not reveal any timetable for recovery. The source said the surgery would be significant and require a l..
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  • To learn about himself, Ben Cherington decided to teach

    To learn about himself, Ben Cherington decided to teach
    NEW YORK – There was no rush to the next thing.Ben Cherington had spent his entire adult life working for the Boston Red Sox. When he parted ways with them last August, electing to leave his post as GM after the hiring of Dave Dombrowski as president of baseball operations, he felt a need to process both his 18-year history as an employee of the Red Sox and the abrupt end of that tenure. Advertisement Undoubtedly, there could have been opportunities to race forward. Cherington’s relationshi..
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  • Malia Obama sparks interest, but gap years are rare

    Malia Obama sparks interest, but gap years are rare
    MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images/File Malia Obama will attend Harvard University in 2017 after taking a year off from her studies. In recent days, the “gap year” has enjoyed a nice little run. The announcement that first daughter Malia Obama will take a year off before starting college at Harvard has triggered a wave of news articles, blog posts, and on-camera commentary. Advertisement Whether that attention will inspire more students to plan a gap year of their own, however, is another qu..
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  • License of Duck Boat operator revoked following fatal crash

    License of Duck Boat operator revoked following fatal crash
    BOSTON (WHDH) - The RMV has revoked the license of a Duck Boat operator who was involved in a deadly crash over the weekend."This was done as part of a standard suspension action that the RMV invokes when there is a fatality," the Department of Transportation said Monday afternoon.Victor Tavares has a lengthy driving violation record, going back 15 years, according to the DOT. RMV records show that Tavares has been cited for speeding three times since 2010. Before that, he had a num..
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  • FBI searches property of man at center of Gardner heist case

    FBI searches property of man at center of Gardner heist case
    MANCHESTER, Conn. — For the third time, the FBI on Monday searched the property of aging mobster Robert Gentile, who is linked to the investigation into the notorious 1990 theft of $500 million worth of paintings from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.Late Monday afternoon, the Manchester street was blocked off by law enforcement vehicles. Gentile’s lawyer, A. Ryan McGuigan, said agents from the FBI’s Evidence Response Team were digging within 10 feet of the ranch home. Agents were ..
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  • Little oversight, lots of success for marijuana delivery services

    Little oversight, lots of success for marijuana delivery services
    One delivery service offers gluten-free marijuana brownies. Another promises a free marijuana-laced lollipop with each order. A third touts trained “caregivers” and delivery until 4 a.m.These marijuana delivery services — the objects of an unsuccessful crackdown by Massachusetts health officials two years ago — were expected to fade away once the first state-sanctioned medical marijuana dispensaries opened last year. Instead, they have proliferated. Advertisement More than two dozen of these..
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  • Putting identity politics on the table

    Putting identity politics on the table
    Picture Boston’s food scene without Coppa’s pizza or Toro’s tapas, without Tiger Mama’s pad Thai or smoked salmon at Bagelsaurus. Grim, isn’t it? But if chefs were only allowed to cook their native cuisines, these places wouldn’t exist. Ken Oringer does not hail from Italy or Spain. Tiffani Faison is not, in fact, from Southeast Asia. Bagel-maker extraordinaire Mary Ting Hyatt? North Cambridge is a long way from the Lower East Side.That’s OK if the food tastes good though, right? Maybe. Adverti..
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  • Mayor Walsh says he was blindsided by Grand Prix cancellation

    Mayor Walsh says he was blindsided by Grand Prix cancellation
    VIDEOMayor Martin J. Walsh said he was “kind of surprised” by Friday’s announcement by promoters of the Boston Grand Prix that it was canceling the Labor Day road race in the Seaport District, and said he will look for answers internally as to what happened.“I found out by the press, I wasn’t expecting to find out that way,” Walsh said today in his first public comments on the cancellation. “Certainly I was the biggest advocate for IndyCar of anyone in this whole thing ... I want to see if there..
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  • Red Sox hitters heeding Chili Davis's message

    Red Sox hitters heeding Chili Davis's message
    Over 19 seasons playing in the majors, Chili Davis drove in 1,372 runs. And 17 years after retiring, he still takes extra pride in the 506 RBIs he produced with two outs.“I was a two-out RBI machine,” Davis said. “That was my favorite RBI.” Advertisement There was pressure with two outs and runners in scoring position, but to Davis, it was on the pitcher, not himself. “I think with two outs and runners in scoring position, pitchers are thinking, ‘Ah, I’ve just got to get one more guy out,’ ..
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  • Officials raise transgender pride flag at Boston City Hall

    Officials raise transgender pride flag at Boston City Hall
    Mayor Marty Walsh says a transgender pride flag raised Monday over Boston City Hall plaza will continue to fly until everyone is equal under the law in Massachusetts.The Democratic mayor and other elected officials joined activists in raising the flag of blue, pink, and white horizontal stripes as state lawmakers continue to weigh a bill that would extend protections to transgender individuals in public places.Republican Gov. Charlie Baker hasn't said whether he would sign the measure, which wo..
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