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NFL to ask players to donate brains for concussion research
3:44 PM on 12/22/2009
The NFL is partnering with Boston University brain researchers who have been critical of the league's stance on concussions...
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Obama's aunt living illegally in Boston
10:23 AM on 12/01/2009
BOSTON (AP) - President Barack Obama's aunt sobbed over no longer having contact with him and his family after the revelation she had been living illegally for years in the United States in public housing...
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College football player tackles teammate's rare bone cancer
7:00 AM on 11/26/2009
A Boston College wide receiver discovered a new passion off the field: raising money to tackle a rare form of bone cancer known as Ewing's sarcoma...
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Caught on tape: Conductor saves woman on train tracks
8:20 AM on 11/10/2009
VIDEO - A woman fell on to the train tracks in Boston, but she escaped unharmed after several passengers came to her rescue...
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Psychiatrist stabbed by her patient
10:23 AM on 10/28/2009
VIDEO - A Massachusetts man is dead after he stabbed a female doctor while being treated at a psychiatric office and then was fatally shot by an off-duty security guard...
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Wrongfully convicted Boston man awarded $14M
8:32 AM on 10/22/2009
A federal jury has awarded $14 million to a man who spent nearly 15 years in prison after he was wrongly convicted in the 1988 slaying of a 12-year-old Boston girl...
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Wyclef Jean goes back to school
4:54 PM on 10/02/2009
BOSTON (AP) - Wyclef Jean is going back to school to earn a degree from Boston's Berklee College of Music.
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Boston cop says he's "not a racist" for Gates slur
12:47 PM on 07/31/2009
BOSTON (AP) -- A Boston police officer who was suspended for using a racial slur to describe black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. apologized for his comments and declared he is not a racist.
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Boston's racial problems persist
4:47 PM on 07/23/2009
The recent arrest of the esteemed black scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his Cambridge home has put the Greater Boston area back in the national spotlight as a hotbed of racism. I have lived in Boston all of my life, and I grew up hearing about the racist attacks...
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Boston becomes the first city to offer its own iPhone app
11:08 AM on 07/07/2009
A city steeped in history turns to technology to report neighborhood nuisances. Boston becomes the first city in the country to offer an iPhone application connecting communities with city hall. See a pothole that needs filling...
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