Saturday, August 12, 2017

This is what the Boston Pizza Festival looked like and other top stories.

  • This is what the Boston Pizza Festival looked like

    This is what the Boston Pizza Festival looked like
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  • New England news in brief

    New England news in brief
    Boston Everett man arrested for road rage A 20-year-old Everett man was arrested Friday after an apparent road rage incident on the Charlestown Bridge, according to Boston police. Travis Elsaadi was charged with assault by means of a dangerous weapon for allegedly striking a man driving a scooter with a metal baseball bat. Police responded to a report just before 9 a.m. that a driver had left his car and was attacking the man. Officer Rachel McGuire, a Boston police spokeswoman, said the susp..
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  • Good news: Sunny skies are back

    Good news: Sunny skies are back
    Sunny skies will be back for the end of the weekend after thunderstorms and showers rolled through Massachusetts Saturday, downing trees in some areas.Northern parts of Worcester and Middlesex counties saw severe thunderstorm warnings through the afternoon, including Leominster, which had at least two reports of fallen trees on Lowe Street and Merriam Avenue. Advertisement Amid the downpour, wind gusts in North Reading reached as high as 41 miles per hour, according to the National Weather ..
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  • Community groups seek to aid Boston's victims of violence through ...

    Community groups seek to aid Boston's victims of violence through ...
    One text changed everything for Jerrod Clark last year. Clark, a 17-year-old Brighton High School student, learned in the text he received on Sept. 7 that his older brother was killed in a drive-by shooting. Advertisement Visiting the crime scene, Clark said, he saw his brother’s lifeless body and “I felt like I was in a bad dream and I couldn’t wake up.” This weekend, Clark participated in the eighth annual Save R Streets summer classic in Jeep Jones Park in Roxbury and called it a life-af..
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  • Boston's public libraries to get $102 million overhaul

    Boston's public libraries to get $102 million overhaul
    The city’s 25 public libraries will be getting some much-needed face-lifts as part of a multimillion-dollar effort to transform them into 21st century hot spots.Nearly $102 million will be spent on library projects over the next five years as part of the city’s long-term capital plan that Boston Public Library President David Leonard called “the largest investment in libraries by the city in decades.” “The majority of funding is targeted toward our branches, which are in need of renovation,..
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  • Amir Johnson grateful Boston Celtics were honest about their plans ...

    Amir Johnson grateful Boston Celtics were honest about their plans ...
    LAS VEGAS -- After expressing a level of gratitude for the honesty of Boston Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge this offseason, Amir Johnson spotted a familiar face by his shoulder.   Johnson paused the conversation for a second, turned to embrace Terry Rozier and declared, "We're gonna bust your ass." Rozier burst into laughter, but the comment drove home the fact that the two players are now former teammates. Last week, Johnson agreed to a one-year, $11-million contract wi..
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  • Deporting of Irishman who was longtime Boston resident casts 'big ...

    Deporting of Irishman who was longtime Boston resident casts 'big ...
    Irish Network Boston John Cunningham. Immigration advocates reacted with sadness and anger Saturday to news that an Irish immigrant who was chairman of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Boston was deported last week despite having no criminal record. “It just throws a big shadow over people’s dreams, this being the land of opportunity,” said Ronnie Millar, executive director at the Irish International Immigrant Center. “It creates a tremendous uncertainty about the future. People are rea..
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  • Lost in a circle of lies

    Lost in a circle of lies
    Drug users, desperate to break addictions to heroin or pain pills, are pawns in a sprawling national network of insurance fraud, an investigation by The Boston Globe and STAT has found.They are being sent to treatment centers hundreds of miles from home for expensive, but often shoddy, care that is paid for by premium health insurance benefits procured with fake addresses. Advertisement Patient brokers are paid a fee to place insured people in treatment centers, which pocket thousands of dol..
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  • Red Sox offense silent in 1-0 loss to Rays

    Red Sox offense silent in 1-0 loss to Rays
    ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Sandy Leon looked like he might have had a hit. Adeiny Hechavarria had other ideas.On a sharply hit liner by Leon, the Rays shortstop dove to his left and nearly caught it but still stayed in the play. With the ball behind him on the dirt, he picked it up with his right hand, spun and fired it to first on a bounce for the out.That's just the way the ball bounced for the Red Sox today.Whether it was that play, or when Hechavarria impressively snagged a line drive by Hanley..
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  • A Boston story in 50 words

    A Boston story in 50 words
    Advertisement In 1973, I was 19 and had a summer job at a small bank in Dorchester giving out rewards to people who opened new accounts. They could choose a toaster or a radio. Bored, I tuned the radio to the Watergate hearings. Sitting at a folding table, I was engrossed. — MARY FOLEY, Newton Centre
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