Notorious Boston gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was killed just hours after he was transferred to a prison in West Virginia from another lockup in Florida and placed in the general population.
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Snow shovels in hand, Vermonters volunteer to clean up after epic floods
President Biden has declared an emergency in Vermont and authorized federal disaster relief assistance.
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James Lewis, suspect in Tylenol poisonings that killed 7 people in the Chicago area in 1982, dead at 76
No one was ever charged in the deaths of seven people who took painkillers laced with cyanide, but Lewis served more than 12 years in prison for sending an extortion note to manufacturer Johnson & Johnson.
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Relentless rain floods roads in Northeast, leads to evacuations, rescues
Crews from North Carolina, Michigan and Connecticut are among those helping to get to Vermont towns that have been unreachable since torrents of rain belted the state overnight.
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Burglary suspect accused in crash that killed 19-year-old officer in Vermont
Police say Tate Rheaume, 20, crashed into two cruisers last week during a high-speed chase, killing one officer and injuring two others.
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Extremely overdue book returned to Massachusetts library 119 years later
The New Bedford Free Public Library is celebrating the return of a book more than a century after it was last checked out.
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Judge orders arrest of gun training center owner in Vermont
Daniel Banyai has already been fined over $100,000 for constructing multiple buildings and firing ranges without permits.
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Vermont schools sue Monsanto over toxic PCB contamination
Last year, Vermont became the first state in the country to require older schools to test for the chemicals commonly used in building materials before 1980.
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After secret documents leak, Pentagon plans tighter controls to protect classified information
The move follows the explosive leaks of hundreds of intelligence documents that were accessed through security gaps at a Massachusetts Air National Guard base.
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Vermont to pay $16.5 million to settle lawsuits by foreign investors in fraudulent ski development
The former owners of Jay Peak were accused of misusing more than half of about $400 million raised for ski area developments from foreign investors through a visa program that offered the investors a chance at permanent U.S. residency.