Boston, MA (SportsNetwork.com) – Tom Parisi scored a fluke goal to tie the game and Brandon Tanev scored the winner in the latter stages of the third period, and Providence knocked off Boston University by a 4-3 count in the NCAA men’s hockey national championship game on Saturday. Anthony Florentino …
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CABOT, Ark. – Authorities say Arkansas officers fatally shot a handcuffed parolee who fired at them from inside a patrol car. State Department of Community Correction Deputy Director Dina Tyler says 35-year-old Jonathan McIntosh was killed Tuesday in Cabot, 25 miles northwest of Little Rock. Tyler says ADCC and Lonoke …
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Authorities in upstate New York are trying to determine the source of nine brains that reportedly turned up along a village street. One of the brains was analyzed by a local veterinarian in St Lawrence County, who determined it was likely from a dog, according to WWNY TV 7. The …
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BOONTON, N.J. – A new addition to Ellis Island’s Immigration Museum is having its grand opening next week after numerous delays following the destruction of Superstorm Sandy. The Daily Record reports (http://dailyre.co/1Bm3CNl ) the Wednesday opening of the Peopling of America Center marks the end of the second phase of …
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BOISE, Idaho – BASE jumpers just want to be free. How else can you explain it this extreme form of skydiving? BASE stands for the fixed objects people leap from: Buildings and antenna, spans such as bridges, and Earth, which usually means stunningly high cliffs. The devil-may-care culture of these …
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Many kids will graduate from college, high school .. or in my son’s case 4th grade today. It’s a time to celebrate and reflect and look forward to bigger and brighter things. So today, a few words of my advice to grads: As I say in my upcoming book “Getting …
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PHOENIX – Phoenix is suing the Federal Aviation Administration over flight path changes that have led to aircraft noise that’s plaguing some historic city neighborhoods. Mayor Greg Stanton said Monday that the city has tried to resolve the issue numerous times, but the FAA hasn’t proposed any meaningful changes. Stanton …
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I’m sorry. When’s the last time you heard those two words? When’s the last time you said those two words? For anything? To anyone? I ask because there’s a really great piece by Del Jones in USA Today on why a simple “sorry” is so hard to come by these …
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying American space tourist Richard Garriott and a new crew for the International Space Station docked at orbiting laboratory early Tuesday, where three astronauts were eagerly awaiting their arrival inside. The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft docked flawlessly at an Earth-facing port on the station’s Russian-built Zarya control …
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LOS ANGELES – Country crooner-of-the-moment Taylor Swift recently opened up to Blender.com about music, men and her new album “Fearless” (which just dropped this week) but Pop Tarts is dishing the dirt on the interview before Blender even posts it. Swift (whose recent romance with Joe Jonas hit headlines when …
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