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Gunfire in Watertown: An eyewitness account
While millions of people watched on TV the eventual capture of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Friday, Bob Glatz saw the events unfold in person, shooting more than two hours of video from his front window. Glatz, 46, who lives in a third-...
Tags: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, FBI, Apple iPad
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In Watertown, hiding in the bathroom, hearing the gunshots
WATERTOWN, Mass. -- An hour or two before, Deanna Finn hadn't anticipated she’d be ducking with her son in the bathroom of her Watertown home, listening to gunshots, her husband blocks away. The travel ban that had marooned area residents in their... -
Boston Bruins fans at Saturday's game: Relieved but vigilant
BOSTON -- Hockey fans filled the streets around TD Garden, streaming into the athletic complex as they passed vendors selling T-shirts that read "Boston Strong Never Forget" with the date of the bombings. Half a dozen Homeland Security vehicles lined...
Tags: Boston Bruins, Pittsburgh Penguins, TD Garden
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Boston bombings manhunt: Lockdown closes campuses, halts transit
Residents of Boston and its nearby suburbs woke to find themselves in a virtual lockdown Friday as mass transit came to a halt, college campuses were closed and officials urged people to shutter their businesses and stay inside. “It is important...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Deval Patrick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Public Transportation, Restaurant and Catering Industry
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Officer slain at MIT loved his role
For Sean Collier, police work was a calling, an academic pursuit and a dream. On Thursday night, he died on duty — in what police believe was the fourth death in a violent rampage wrought by the Boston bombing suspects. The MIT campus police...
Tags: Boston, NASCAR, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Teaching and Learning, Jimmie Johnson
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Intense manhunt near Boston
WATERTOWN, Mass. — With the Boston area jumpy from the deadly marathon bombings, a shooting that killed a police officer at MIT and a nearby carjacking triggered a massive police response. By early Friday, one suspect was in custody and police had...
Tags: Explosions, Boston, Middlesex County (Massachusetts), Shootings, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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How the Kings' championship banner was made
Before the Kings hoisted their 2012 Stanley Cup banner to the rafters of Staples Center, the biggest decision they had was choosing a company to make it. Luc Robitaille, the team's president of business operations, said the club decided to go with New...
Tags: Stanley Cup Playoffs, Staples Center, LeBron James, Los Angeles Kings
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Morgan MacLean: Turning urban trash into beautiful illusions
As an architectural model maker for Frank O. Gehry, Morgan MacLean learned how to turn a wad of paper into a replica of a building. Now, as a sculptor, he is tweaking that creative process. The artist, 34, lives and works in Highland Park, devoting...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Arts, Artists, Sculpture, Fine Artists
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Dr. Charles Epstein dies at 77; geneticist survived attack by Unabomber
Dr. Charles Epstein, a UC San Francisco medical geneticist who studied Down syndrome and pioneered genetic counseling for families with affected children, but whose career was temporarily interrupted by a vicious 1993 attack by the notorious Unabomber,...Tags: Health, Harvard University, Human Body, Science, Genes and Chromosomes
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Sidney Harman dies at 92; Newsweek owner and high-fidelity sound pioneer
Sidney Harman, a philanthropist, polymath and pioneer in high-fidelity sound for homes and cars who tried to resuscitate an icon of American journalism when he bought Newsweek last year, has died. He was 92.
Harman died Tuesday night in Washington, D.C.,...Tags: Jane Harman, Companies and Corporations, Employees, Electronics, World War II (1939-1945)
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Meinhardt Raabe dies at 94; one of the Munchkins in 'The Wizard of Oz'
Times Staff And Wire ReportsMeinhardt Raabe, who played the Munchkin coroner in "The Wizard of Oz" and proclaimed that the Wicked Witch of the East was "really most sincerely dead," has died. He was 94. Raabe died Friday morning at a hospital in Orange Park, Fla., after an apparent...Tags: L. Frank Baum, The Wizard of Oz (movie, 1939), Health, Entertainment, MGM Inc.
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Sheldon J. Segal dies at 83; scientist led development of long-lasting contraceptives
Sheldon J. Segal, who led the team that developed Norplant, Jadelle, Mirena and other long-lasting contraceptive agents that are used by more than 120 million women around the world and who promoted the idea that women did not have to have monthly...Tags: Health, University of Iowa, Bedford (Bronx, New York), Happiness (state of mind), Hemorrhaging
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