By DENIS P. GORMAN Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Patrice Bergeron scored the tiebreaker with 4:08 remaining in the third period and the Boston Bruins beat the New Jersey Devils 3-1 on Wednesday night. Trent Frederic and Pavel Zacha also scored for NHL-leading Boston, which improved to 28-4-3. Linus Ullmark made 26 saves. “It’s […]
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‘It’s just horrendous’: Highway fatalities top 170 in Maine
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine is likely to finish the year with its highest number of highway fatalities in 15 years, as a pandemic trend of speeding and reckless driving continues across the state, officials said. The unofficial number of highway deaths stood at 177 on Wednesday, making it the worst year since 2007, when […]
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Talbot shines as Senators beat Bruins 3-2 in shootout
OTTAWA, Ontario (AP) — Alex DeBrincat had the only goal of the shootout Tuesday night as the Ottawa Senators snapped a three-game slide with a 3-2 win over the Boston Bruins. DeBrincat and Tim Stutzle scored second-period goals for the Senators (15-16-3) while Cam Talbot made 49 saves including 26 in the third period alone. […]
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Connecticut firefighter dies from injuries sustained at fire
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A 22-year veteran of the North Haven Fire Department has died from injuries he sustained while working at an early morning blaze at a four-family home on Monday, the fire chief confirmed, calling the death a tragic loss for his department. The incident occurred while firefighters were battling the blaze. […]
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Despite back-to-back blunders, Patriots playoff hopes alive
That the New England Patriots are still alive in the AFC playoff race is not a credit to them as much as the good fortune of chasing some teams that have bumbled their way into Christmas even worse. Miami has lost four consecutive games. The Jets have lost four in a row. The Titans have […]
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Western NY death toll rises to 28 from cold, storm chaos
By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Buffalo residents hovered around space heaters, hunted for cars buried in snow drifts and looked for more victims Monday, after 28 people died in one of the worst weather-related disasters ever to hit western New York. The rest of the United States also was reeling […]
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Frigid monster storm across US claims at least 34 lives
By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Millions of people hunkered down against a deep freeze Sunday to ride out the winter storm that has killed at least 34 people across the United States and is expected to claim more lives after trapping some residents inside houses with heaping snow […]
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18 die as monster storm brings rain, snow, cold across US
By CAROLYN THOMPSON and JAKE BLEIBERG Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A frigid winter storm killed at least 18 people as it swept across the country, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses and leaving millions of people on edge about the possibility of Christmas Eve blackouts. The storm unleashed […]
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Late, critical mistake costs Patriots for 2nd straight week
By BRENDAN McGAIR Associated Press FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — For the second straight week, the fate of the New England Patriots was sealed on a late-game mistake. Entering a crucial three-game stretch with little margin for error, the Patriots saw their playoff hopes pushed further in the wrong direction when Rhamondre Stevenson fumbled the ball […]
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Winter storm batters US power, snarling Christmas travel
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JILL BLEED Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A battering winter storm knocked out power to 1.7 million homes and businesses across the United States on Saturday, left millions more to worry about the prospect of further outages and crippled police, fire departments and an airport in snow-blown New York state. […]
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Pastrnak and Ullmark lead Bruins past struggling Devils, 4-3
By PAT PICKENS Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — David Pastrnak scored two of Boston’s four second-period goals, and linemates David Krejci and Pavel Zacha each had two assists in the Bruins’ 4-3 victory over the New Jersey Devils on Friday night. Patrice Bergeron and Jake DeBrusk also scored for the Bruins, and Linus Ullmark […]
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Brown’s 4th quarter carries Celtics past T-Wolves, 121-109
By KEN POWTAK Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Jaylen Brown scored 23 of his 36 points in the fourth quarter to help the Boston Celtics pull away for a 121-109 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night that halted their season-worst three-game losing streak. Jayson Tatum had 30 points, eight rebounds and five assists, […]
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Massive winter storm brings rolling blackouts, power outages
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH and JILL BLEED Associated Press MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Tens of millions of Americans endured bone-chilling temperatures, blizzard conditions, power outages and canceled holiday gatherings Friday from a winter storm that forecasters said was nearly unprecedented in its scope, exposing about 60% of the U.S. population to some sort of winter weather advisory or […]
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Massachusetts woman charged with fatally poisoning boyfriend
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts woman charged with fatally poisoning her boyfriend with a chemical commonly found in antifreeze and deicing fluid pleaded not guilty to murder and was held without bail at her arraignment Friday. Judy Church, 64, of Salisbury, is charged in the death of Leroy Fowler, according to the Essex district […]
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Park construction manager pays $1.9M over minority hiring
BOSTON (AP) — The company that oversaw the construction of a minor league baseball park in Massachusetts has agreed to pay nearly $2 million to settle allegations that it failed to live up to its pledge of giving a certain portion of the work on the project to women- and minority-owned businesses, the state attorney […]
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Nick Foligno breaks 3rd-period tie, Bruins beat Jets 3-2
By BRENDAN McGAIR Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Nick Foligno broke a tie midway through the third period, Jeremy Swayman stopped 25 shots and the NHL-leading Boston Bruins rallied to beat the Winnipeg Jets 3-2 on Thursday night. The Bruins improved to 26-4-2 and 18-0-2 at home. Foligno scored from the left circle off a […]
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Key witness in case against ex-Providence Mayor Cianci dies
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Antonio Freitas, a key witness in the federal Plunder Dome case that exposed rampant corruption in Providence City Hall and sent Mayor Buddy Cianci and other city officials to prison, has died. Freitas died peacefully on Tuesday of natural causes surrounded by his family, one of his children, Kimberly Balkcom, confirmed […]
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International migration drove US population growth in 2022
By MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press The U.S. population expanded by 1.2 million people this year, with growth largely driven by international migration, and the nation now has 333.2 million residents, according to estimates released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau. Net international migration — the number of people moving into the U.S. minus the number […]
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Man who had more than 200 guns at home to plead guilty
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island man found with an arsenal of more than 200 guns at his home along with thousands of rounds of ammunition and a flamethrower has agreed to plead guilty to some federal charges, according to court documents. At a date to be determined, Ronald Andruchuk, 38, will plead guilty to lying […]
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Sunday’s World Cup final most-watched soccer match in U.S.
By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer Argentina’s dramatic victory over France in penalty kicks in the World Cup final has become the most-watched soccer match of any kind in the United States. With Nielsen and Fox releasing the “match only” rating on Wednesday, Sunday’s match had an English- and Spanish-language total combined audience of 26,726,000. […]
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States contend with short timeline to correct broadband map
By KAVISH HARJAI Associated Press/Report for America LOS ANGELES (AP) — States are racing against a deadline to challenge the map federal officials will use to divvy up the nation’s largest-ever investment in high-speed internet. At stake is a share of the $42.5 billion Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment program, part of the infrastructure measure […]
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The AP Interview: Vermont Sen. Leahy ponders his legacy
By WILSON RING Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Patrick Leahy lingered on a narrow balcony on the west side of the U.S. Capitol, soaking in a panoramic view of the National Mall, the Washington Monument and, beyond, the Lincoln Memorial. “Now this I will miss,” he said. As Leahy closes out a Senate career […]
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Lawmakers using spending bill to delay lobster restrictions
By DAVID SHARP Associated Press PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine’s congressional delegation is using the $1.7 trillion federal spending bill to try to delay for six years new protections for endangered whales to protect Maine’s lobster industry. The amendment would leave existing lobster fishing regulations in place for the time being, thwarting new restrictions aimed at protecting North […]
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Company asks judge to delay demolition of Vermont school
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — The manufacturer of chemicals that are prompting Vermont’s largest city to tear down its high school wants to delay the demolition, saying that to do so now would result in the destruction of evidence. Burlington’s school board sued Monsanto in federal court on Dec. 9, more than two years after PCBs were found […]
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Maine woman sentenced to 47 years in death of 3-year-old son
BELFAST,Maine (AP) — A Maine woman convicted in the fatal beating of her 3-year-old son — a crime that led to child welfare reforms in the state — was sentenced to 47 years in prison on Tuesday. Jessica Trefethen, 36, of Stockton Springs, was convicted of depraved indifference murder in the death of her son, […]