Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Matthew slams Haiti before heading to Cuba, Fla. and other top stories.

  • Matthew slams Haiti before heading to Cuba, Fla.

    LEOGANE, Haiti — Hurricane Matthew roared across the southwestern tip of Haiti with 145 mph winds Tuesday, uprooting trees and tearing roofs from homes in a largely rural corner of the impoverished country as the storm headed north toward Cuba and the east coast of Florida.A fisherman was reported drowned in Haiti as the storm closed in, and four deaths were recorded in the neighboring Dominican Republic, bringing the death toll from Matthew’s path through the Caribbean to at least seven. Adver..
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  • Guregian: Here's what to expect from Patriots with Tom Brady back

    Guregian: Here's what to expect from Patriots with Tom Brady back
    Tom Brady is in the building. The Patriots quarterback returned to Gillette Stadium yesterday, finally granted re-entry after serving his four-game suspension.So what changes or goes back to the Brady way with his return? What will be different with the Pats, now that Brady is back and under center?Here’s what:Confidence rises — How can you not feel better and more confident with arguably the greatest quarterback of all-time rejoining the huddle? It will be easier to turn the page on the Buffalo..
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  • Jill Stein takes aim in a burn-down-the-establishment campaign

    Jill Stein takes aim in a burn-down-the-establishment campaign
    HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — The revolutionaries were trying to get themselves arrested, but having a tricky time picking a spot. Two dozen supporters of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein faced off against a blue line of police, in the parking lot of an empty office park. It seemed a dull spot to make a stand. The two sides talked and then the protest moved around the corner, toward a higher-profile location. On the walk over, cannabis activist Todd Hinden, a 51-year-old with a salt-and-pepper..
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  • The politics of a Boston Latin School education

    The politics of a Boston Latin School education
    THE DRUMBEAT OF bad news about race relations at Boston Latin School reached a crescendo last Tuesday, when US Attorney Carmen Ortiz reported that “BLS administrators generally treated student reports of racial harassment and insensitivity with insufficient seriousness” and cited the school with one violation of the Civil Rights Act.You should read the report on the Globe website and make your own conclusion about what rises to the level of a racially insensitive comment, expressed by an adoles..
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  • Bruins Notebook: Defenseman Christian Ehrhoff challenges for ...

    Bruins Notebook: Defenseman Christian Ehrhoff challenges for ...
    If any of the Bruins defensemen were getting comfortable, they need to drop that mindset quickly. Management has shown it’s still not satisfied with what it has on the back end.That was made clear with the signing of veteran blueliner Christian Ehrhoff to a professional tryout contract after the German’s solid performance at the World Cup.“He’s always been a guy that’s skated well, moves the puck well and is a good heads-up type of player. The way he competed at the World Cup is probably what go..
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  • Recent wave of creepy clown reports has yet to reach Boston area ...

    Recent wave of creepy clown reports has yet to reach Boston area ...
    UPDATE: Students at Merrimack College were briefly told to shelter in place Monday night and a dorm was evacuated after a report of an armed clown in the residence hall, but authorities found “no suspicious persons” in the facility, a spokesman said.*** Advertisement Residents in at least 26 states have reported to police unsettling encounters in recent weeks with people dressed as creepy, menacing clowns. At least one such sighting has been reported in Massachusetts, and the cases recall a ..
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  • Boston Launches App-Based Competition To Encourage Safe Driving

    Boston Launches App-Based Competition To Encourage Safe Driving
    As part of its campaign to end traffic deaths, the city of Boston is launching a safe driving competition using a smartphone app.The Boston's Safest Driver competition tracks five different behaviors -- like speeding and how much you use your phone — and then ranks users against one another, rewarding safe driving practices.Between now and Dec. 3, the highest-scoring drivers will compete for $9,000 in prizes that are funded by the Arbella Insurance Foundation.The competition is part of the city'..
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  • BPD Explorers program eyeing diverse recruits

    BPD Explorers program eyeing diverse recruits
    A Boston teen who grew up in a violence-plagued neighborhood hopes to become a cop thanks to the Boston Police Explorers — a revived program police Commissioner William B. Evans says could help add needed diversity to the police force as older minority officers approach retirement.“You have to have a passion for something. I have passion for helping others,” said Awan Freeman, 19, a recent graduate of the 
Explorers, the branch of scouting for older teens. “I grew up in a tough neighborhood. Gro..
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  • Boston Pops Will Take Over For David Mugar As Producer Of July ...

    Boston Pops Will Take Over For David Mugar As Producer Of July ...
    The Boston Pops are taking direct responsibility for the annual Boston Pops Fireworks Spectacular — the July Fourth show on the Esplanade that draws more than a million people to Boston every summer.Before he retired, businessman and philanthropist David Mugar had produced the annual show for 43 years. Mugar ended up paying for the 2016 event himself when other sponsors couldn’t be found.Now the Pops -- along with the management of Mugar’s company, Boston 4 Productions -- will take up the produc..
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  • Cancer racial disparity lower in Boston

    Cancer racial disparity lower in Boston
    Boston is one of the only major cities to avoid the alarming national trend that shows black women dying from breast cancer at a higher rate than their white counterparts, a new study shows.“It’s astonishing, and it’s something we’re hoping to dig into more,” said Marc Hurlbert, chief mission 
officer of the Breast Cancer Research Foundation in New York. “We want to learn more about how Boston is doing so well, and figure out how those learnings can be applied.”Nationally, black women are 43 per..
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Pa. Town Council Approves Motion to Censure Mayor Over Racist Obama Memes .Exclusive: Uber to move freight, target trucking for the long haul .
India to Boycott Regional Summit as it Blames Pakistan for Attack .Europol: Ransomware now top cybercrime threat .

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