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| Man found guilty of killing wife with antifreeze Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:53:00 EDT WOBURN, Mass. (AP) — A former Missouri radio reporter was convicted yesterday of killing his wife by poisoning her Gatorade with antifreeze. A jury in Middlesex Superior Court convicted James Keown of first-degree murder in the death of his 31-year-old wife, Julie, who died of a lethal dose of ethylene glycol, a chemical found in antifreeze. |
| Massachusetts news in brief Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:53:00 EDT Second rabid cat found in western Mass. town SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. (AP) — For the second time in recent weeks, a cat has tested positive for rabies after attacking people in South Hadley. The town's animal control officer says a man and a 9-year-old girl were bitten by the cat last week after it climbed out of a wood pile. The animal was captured and brought to a state laboratory in Boston, where it tested positive for rabies. |
| N.H. news in brief Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:52:00 EDT Coast Guard rescues 2 kayakers near NH coast BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued two people after their kayaks capsized during a thunderstorm in Concord Point, New Hampshire. The Coast Guard says a good Samaritan notified the South Portland, Maine, station that the men were in the water and needed help at about 3 p.m. yesterday. |
| Police find missing Vt. girl's body Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:52:00 EDT BETHEL, Vt. (AP) — The body of a missing 12-year-old whose uncle allegedly planned to force her into a sex ring the day she disappeared was found yesterday in Randolph, not far from his house. State Police Director Col. James Baker said Brooke Bennett's body was found about 4:45 p.m. and her family had been notified. |
| Hedge fund scammer surrenders in Massachusetts Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:51:00 EDT SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A hedge fund swindler who set off a national manhunt when he faked his suicide to avoid reporting to prison rode his scooter to a small-town police station in Massachusetts yesterday and turned himself in while talking to his mother on his cell phone. |
| Alleged Fla. sausage assault brings battery charge Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:48:00 EDT DELAND, Fla. (AP) — A man was charged with battery after he hit his mother in the head with a three-pound package of Polish sausage, police said. Gregory Allen Praeger, 46, was in the kitchen cooking and talking on the phone when officers arrived Saturday night. His mother told police he had been drinking and arguing with her, then picked up the package of sausage and hurled it, grazing her head. She was not badly hurt and did not have to go to the hospital. |
| Letter: Frustrating search for Beverly's 'Privateer Trail' Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:08:00 EDT To the editor: It was a beautiful Wednesday morning, and I ended up unexpectedly having the day off. So I figured it might be time to play tourist in my hometown of Beverly. For years, I had seen signs on different old buildings around town identifying them with a short history and number as part of "The Privateer Trail." So with the sun shining bright, I was off to follow it. |
| Letter: No denying fact of global climate change Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:06:00 EDT To the editor: Regarding Robert Kelly's Wednesday, June 18, column ("Contrary to Gore, sky's not falling"): Imagine going to a doctor because you are not feeling well. The doctor does an examination and draws blood for lab work. |
| Robert Kelly: Foreclosures: A pandemic Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:30:00 EDT A pandemic is an epidemic grown large. It is everywhere. It attacks many. Unless stopped, it can be ruinous. So it is with the housing foreclosures that have swept across the land. Many banks, mortgage companies and investors have been hit. No state is exempt. No neighborhood is without fear. Your parents, siblings or friends may be involved; you may be looking over your shoulder, too. |
| Our view: From Marblehead to Beijing Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:30:00 EDT Various sports commentators claim to have detected a decided lack of interest in the upcoming Olympic Games due to get underway a little more than a month from now in Beijing, China. But North Shore residents will have a strong rooting interest in Marblehead's Shalane Flanagan, who finished first in the 10,000-meter final at the U.S. Olympic Trials in Oregon last weekend. |
| Letter: Most boaters complying with no-discharge rules already Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:30:00 EDT To the editor: Your June 26 front-page story ("This sound's no sewer: Local waters off-limits to boaters' dishonorable 'discharge'") was a disservice to your readers, and the tone of the piece was an insult to boaters. |
| Our view: Danvers' high bond rating as good as gold Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:30:00 EDT The town of Danvers has long had a reputation for being well-managed. But it takes more than anecdotal evidence or the fact that the person in charge, in this case Town Manager Wayne Marquis, has been around for 30 years, to convince Wall Street of a community's creditworthiness. |
| Letter: Oil companies happy with the status quo Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:30:00 EDT To the editor: Your June 30 editorial suggesting that oil independence requires more drilling was as wrong as wrong can be! In the 1970s after Americans experienced long gas lines, the government decided to do something positive about alternative energy and $5 billion was appropriated by Congress for research. Then Saudi Arabia and others opened the spigots and fuel became plentiful and cheap, so the search for alternatives was abandoned. |
| Our view: Salem homeowners: Get into the recycling habit Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:30:00 EDT Salem homeowners ought to take advantage of the weekly collection of recyclables included in the contract the city signed recently with Northside Carting. Cities and towns are increasingly being forced to charge or cut back in other areas to afford the increasing costs associated with waste collection and disposal. Failure to limit the amount of goods sent to landfills or incinerators will almost inevitably lead to trash fees. |
| David Shribman: Waves from World War I still ripple in our time Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:15:00 EDT PITTSBURGH — In all of the sunshine fun and sea spray of summer, the small celebration conducted along the eastern spine of Pittsburgh this past Sunday was bound to attract scant attention. Highway rededications are small, fleeting events. There are speeches soon forgotten, commemorative coins, and perhaps a military jet fly-over. |
| Our view: Feels like Florida Tue, 01 Jul 2008 06:38:00 EDT Compared to what the Midwest is going through, where those living along the Mississippi River are seeing the worst flooding in 15 years, our water problems are mere nuisance. Still, it makes one wonder what is really going on in the heavens when New England weather turns tropical, as has been the case over the last week. The days may dawn bright and clear, but by midafternoon the clouds come rolling in, the sound of thunder can be heard in the distance, and then the skies open up with yet another deluge. Every night, the TV newscast seems to have as its lead story the damage caused by hail or lightning, followed by a forecast of more to come. |
| Letter: Another hit-and-run in Beverly Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:38:00 EDT To the editor: I feel sorry for Kathy Robbins after her experience with a hit-and-run driver who did damage to her vehicle in Beverly ("Broken bumper was least of hit-run driver's offenses," letter to the editor, Thursday, June 19). |
| Letter: St. Joseph Church a work of art Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:38:00 EDT To the editor: The City Council meetings regarding the fate of St. Joseph Church have resumed, and after reading about one of those meetings in the story headlined, "Former church OK'd for retail use," I became very disheartened. |
| Letter: Development creates mess in one Beverly neighborhood Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:38:00 EDT To the editor: I am writing this letter in concern for the residents of Roundy, Chase and Mechanic streets in Beverly. As a homeowner, I welcomed Windover's plan to build on the old Nissan property, since it would be creating revenue for the city and cleaning up a vacant lot. |
| View from Beacon Hill: Bill boosts clean energy Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:38:00 EDT BOSTON — A clean energy initiative designed to dramatically ramp up the state's reliance on renewable energy is on its way to Gov. Deval Patrick's desk. The compromise version of the bill emerged from a six-member House and Senate conference committee last week, much to the delight of environmental groups already toasting the passage last month of a first-in-the-nation initiative designed to protect the state's coastal waters. The bill is intended to help Massachusetts begin to wean itself off fossil fuels and other polluting forms of energy while cutting down on emissions that lead to global warming. |
| Letter: Beverly trash fee not intended as a slush fund Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:38:00 EDT To the editor: If anyone needs an example of why Beverly taxpayers do not trust their municipal government with tax dollars, this fits the bill: An article in last Thursday's Salem News on a meeting of Beverly's finance committee included a discussion of the trash fee. Apparently, the city has a surplus in this account. The article said that the council attributes the surplus to increased recycling; another explanation could be that they guessed too high to begin with. |
| Our view: Another costly mandate from Beacon Hill Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:38:00 EDT Budget shortfalls and economic uncertainties are apparently of little concern to some on Beacon Hill, who continue to spend as though we were in boom times rather than on the verge of another Great Depression. Having just passed a bill that would significantly increase hospitals' personnel costs, the House of Representatives is now threatening to impose an equally heavy burden on all Massachusetts employers. |
| Brian Watson: Changing the way we think about growth Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:44:00 EDT DANVERS — Gasoline at $4 per gallon has certainly got everybody's attention. Yet for many reasons, its price over the next decade is likely to continue upward to $5 or $6 or more per gallon. Currently in China, there's just one car for every 100 eligible drivers; Indians own only slightly more. If those two countries reach even half of the car ownership levels of the United States, they alone would consume more oil than is used across the entire globe. |
| Our view: Oil independence requires more drilling Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT Oil, like it or not, will continue to be essential to the economic health of the United States and other Western industrial democracies for the foreseeable future. Wishful thinking about "alternative energy" isn't going to drive the kids to soccer practice or make the lights come on anytime soon. |
| Our view: Beverly can't afford duplication of effort Mon, 30 Jun 2008 06:00:00 EDT Members of Beverly's City Council and School Committee can show they're serious about saving money by endorsing the suggestion that the Department of Public Services take over the maintenance of school buildings. |
| Letter: Oil companies already have plenty of places to drill Mon, 30 Jun 2008 05:44:00 EDT To the editor: After years of failed energy policies that contributed to skyrocketing fuel prices and environmental degradation, the Bush-Cheney White House and their congressional allies now seek to divert the public's attention. |
| What do you think? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT Down With Superdelegates This is to applaud "A Little More Equal" [May 15, 2008]. Is your vote delegatable? Are you willing to give your proxy vote to either party or candidate? Who are those partisans who presume to appoint "super" delegates to trump and disenfranchise millions... |
| What Now? Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT Four years ago, Home Depot opened a store in Brattleboro directly across the street from a locally owned hardware store. A citizens' group called BrattPower quickly formed to call for a boycott of the giant corporate chain. Members of the group stood outside the Home Depot holding "Shop Local"... |
| Imperium Watch: Make Bush's Day Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT In spite of a National Intelligence Estimate from last December that found that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, Congress may soon give President Bush a weapon to use to strike at Iran—and claim that he is simply enforcing the wishes of Congress. A resolution, H Con 362,... |
| The World This Week: The Promised Land Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT America is collectively standing at the mountaintop that Martin Luther King, Jr. talked about on the night before his murder 40 years ago. He told a room full of striking Memphis sanitation workers that God had "allowed me to go up to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the... |
| "Bad Energy" Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT "It is the function of marketing to deal with the identity of a place. We have had potential clients that turned away because of the bad energy of the mental hospital association. This name change reflects the sensible concept of integrating clients into the community, away from the institution."... |
| Between the Lines: Terrible Twosome Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT You probably heard about that fusillade from the McCain campaign, when his surrogates recently used a press conference to call Obama "na?ve" and "delusional" on terrorism. Let's take a moment to look at the names of those leveling these charges: none other than Randy Scheuneman... |
| Behind the Beat: Read It in Books Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT Rock audiences are lame. Particularly in indie rock, where anyone who emotes more than a toe-tap, a quasi-rhythmic head-bob, or a slight sway (usually more popular with couples) is treated to a bevy of sideways glances and made to feel self-conscious by the hipster herd. The Novels want to change all... |
| Soundcheck: Tight Recordings Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT Twenty-nine-year-old Phil daRosa is concerned about what his health means for him as a musician. "I thought all good men died young," said daRosa over a cup of coffee at the Haymarket in downtown Northampton last month. "And I'm like, 'What? I'm totally healthy.'"... |
| Holiday In Cambodia Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT When Ethan Holtzman was backpacking through Southeast Asia, he came across cassettes of Cambodian pop music from the '60s and '70s—a strange hybrid of traditional Cambodian singing in the Khmer language and '60s surf rock. American and British pop, broadcast for the American troops... |
| CD Shorts Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT Simone White I Am the Man (Honest Jon's) Singer Simone White's nicely somber cover of Carole King's exquisite "I Didn't Have Any Summer Romance" is reason enough to pick up this record. White's whispery singing is subdued and jazzy, never straining for emotion,... |
| Nightcrawler: Independence Rock Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT Considering that they've been known to dress up as Star Wars characters from time to time and often employ others to don "grandmother" outfits and throw cookies to their fans, Chicopee rockers Pallet are no strangers to going over the top. So when the quirky quintet was offered a... |
| Sirens and Scallywags Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT Pregnant with connotations of Johnny Depp and stacks of illegally copied CDs, the word "pirate" lurks in the blogosphere and on our televisions. But rarely does one get to observe live-action swashbuckling. Enter The Mad Pirate and the Mermaid , in which an aquatic heroine attempts to rectify... |
| On the Record: Cory Doctorow Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT In his biography, Cory Doctorow describes himself as an award-winning science fiction novelist (Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom, Eastern Standard Tribe), a contributor to numerous publications (Wired, New York Times), a blogger and co-editor of boingboing.net (the Web's most complete directory... |
| Art with a Heart Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT I nterMedia is a fitting title for an exhibit of work by Julie Lapping Rivera and Ani Gonzalez-Rivera. Lapping Rivera—an art teacher at Wildwood Elementary school in Amherst—constructs her autobiographical images using a variety of techniques, including painting, drawing, printmaking... |
| Coloring In Black and White Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT Dancing has been one of Brigitte Carnochan's passions since she emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1947. Despite Carnochan's youthful desire to become a ballerina, she became a high school and university English teacher and an avid gardener. After earning her Ph.D in the '80s,... |
| For Little Brothers and Sisters Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT "Increased government surveillance? What do I care? I'm innocent. I've got nothing to hide." This common rationale for being at peace with the federal government's decision to eavesdrop on its citizens has always struck me as completely missing the point. Since 9/11, the United... |
| Get Your War On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 2:59:08 PM EDT As the presidential primaries wind down, the war in Iraq hobbles forward and “climate change” becomes a household phrase, one group of artists is not going to allow pundits and politicians to hog the debate. This July, the Windham Art Gallery presents Red, Black and Blue: Patriotism, Planet... |
| Hominid Omelette Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT It's nearly impossible to accurately depict what life was like for young dinosaurs. But the Springfield Science Museum, using reconstructed nests, authentic dinosaur eggs--including an 18-inch egg laid by a giant, ostrich-like species of oviraptor--and an almost complete skeleton of a dinosaur... |
| Galway the Small Way Wed, 02 Jul 2008 3:00:28 PM EDT Poetry seldom fills stadiums. That is largely a shame, but it brings the advantage of seeing even big-name poets in small venues. This week offers a fine chance to do that when the widely respected poet Galway Kinnell reads from his work at Shelburne Falls’ Mocha Maya’s. Kinnell, a Vermont... |
| Cinemadope: Army Brats Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:00:00 AM EDT Standard Operating Procedure (3 1/2 stars) Directed by Errol Morris. With Lynndie England, Javel Davis, Janis Karpinski, Joshua Feinman, Zhubin Rahbar, Merry Grissom, and Cyrus King. (R) Errol Morris, the visionary documentary filmmaker who finally won the Oscar for his probing film The Fog... |
| Pictures of the Week, June 27-July 2 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:36:00 EDT Salisbury: Youngsters munch down in the Pizza Eating Contest at the Sand and Sea Festival on Saturday evening. Photo by Bryan Eaton |
| Gas prices got you down? Stick around Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:15:00 EDT NEWBURYPORT — Richard Jones learned long ago you don't need to travel far to enjoy the summer season. Jones, his wife Sheila and their three daughters Elizabeth, 8, Helen, 9 and Julia, 15, have rented a home on Plum Island for a few weeks each summer since the girls were babies. |
| Legislators call for safety measures under Whittier Bridge Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:15:00 EDT AMESBURY — Amid reports that pieces of the John Greenleaf Whittier Bridge are falling from underneath the 57-year-old span, officials are calling on the Massachusetts Highway Department to put up netting to protect boaters. |
| Georgetown news in brief Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:21:00 EDT To publish Georgetown column items, e-mail Courtney Nguyen at courtneyjnguyen@hotmail.com, fax items to 978-465-8505 or mail items to The Daily News, 23 Liberty St., Newburyport, MA 01950. Historical House Tour Sept. 27 |
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