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- Obama and Romney together: Chili, not chilly
- Palestinians celebrate UN statehood vote
- MaineCare program reported $100 M short
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- Haul out the holly and put up the tree again
- Clinton: UN vote for Palestine hurts peace hopes
- Power outage in Cambridge, Mass.
- Pentucket Regional grad Erin McNamara making a point on court at Southern Maine
- Café Soleil: all about the comfort
- Celtics G Rondo on fight: I'm not a dirty player
- Panetta: Post-2014 Afghan effort to be substantial
- NJ mayor to live on food stamps starting Tuesday
- Medfield history buffs want to save old Clark Tavern
- Two protocols for dealing with armed intruder
- Boston school-choice recommendations delayed
- Lawmakers unveil new round of Iran sanctions
- Barak: UN vote on Palestinians not a big move
- APNewsBreak: $4M settlement in Conn. chimp attack
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- Army GI testifies he thought he'd die in custody
| Obama and Romney together: Chili, not chilly Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:49 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Three weeks after the election, Mitt Romney made it to the White House.           |
| Palestinians celebrate UN statehood vote Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:49 PM PST RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians have erupted in wild cheers, hugging each other and honking car horns after the United Nations voted to grant them, at least formally, what they have long yearned for — a state of their own.  |
| MaineCare program reported $100 M short Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:48 PM PST AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Democratic lawmakers say they're "incredibly concerned" about a $100 million shortfall in the state's Medicaid program, also known as MaineCare.  |
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| Haul out the holly and put up the tree again Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:48 PM PST Even the littlest, scrawniest Christmas tree is beautiful, Globe columnist Beverly Beckham says.  |
| Clinton: UN vote for Palestine hurts peace hopes Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:47 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has criticized the United Nations' recognition of Palestine for creating "further obstacles in the path to peace" between Palestinians and Israelis.  |
| Power outage in Cambridge, Mass. Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:40 PM PST CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — A widespread power outage has been reported in the eastern part of Cambridge.  |
| Pentucket Regional grad Erin McNamara making a point on court at Southern Maine Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:31 PM PST As a freshman at the University of Southern Maine, Pentucket Regional graduate Erin McNamara started all 29 games at point guard. Her sophomore season was more of a struggle. But in USM's 5-0 start this season, McNamara led the team in minutes played, had an excellent assist-to-turnover ratio, averaged 8 points per game, and was a steady presence orchestrating the attack.  |
| Café Soleil: all about the comfort Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:25 PM PST Leanne Hunt is more mother than restaurateur, which is part of the success of Café Soleil in Wareham, opened last fall by Hunt and her husband, Robert. With no advertising, little Internet presence, and not even a land-line phone, the place is constantly busy, owing mainly to very good, reasonably priced comfort food, served in an intimately elegant setting in tiny Wareham Village.  |
| Celtics G Rondo on fight: I'm not a dirty player Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:23 PM PST WALTHAM, Mass. (AP) — A day after he retaliated for a hard foul that sent Boston Celtics center Kevin Garnett crashing to the court, Rajon Rondo was defending himself.  |
| Panetta: Post-2014 Afghan effort to be substantial Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:30 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says the U.S. will need to keep troops in Afghanistan even after the combat mission ends in 2014 because al-Qaida is still present in the country and trying to strengthen its influence.  |
| NJ mayor to live on food stamps starting Tuesday Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:16 PM PST NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Mayor Cory Booker said he will live on food stamps for a week starting Tuesday.  |
| Medfield history buffs want to save old Clark Tavern Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:15 PM PST It's served as a dance hall, church, post office, and headquarters for the Connecticut militia during the Revolutionary War. Now, the old Clark Tavern and Inn is for sale, and Medfield history buffs say they hope a buyer can be found to save it. "It's one of the most historic buildings in town and its history transcends Medfield because of the role in the Revolutionary War and its role as a tavern," said Richard De Sorgher, town historian.  |
| Two protocols for dealing with armed intruder Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:13 PM PST While the traditional "lockdown" protocol asks students and school staff to lock their classroom door and hide from an armed intruder, the ALICE protocol encourages active decision-making as the crisis unfolds.  |
| Boston school-choice recommendations delayed Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:13 PM PST An advisory committee racing to meet a deadline next week on recommending changes to the way Boston assigns students to schools will now have until at least January to cast a vote, the Mayor's Office announced this afternoon. Mayor Thomas Menino decided more time was necessary so researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University can complete groundbreaking research that aims to predict how parents and students will choose schools under several proposals to change the assignment process.  |
| Lawmakers unveil new round of Iran sanctions Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:10 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are pushing ahead on tougher sanctions against Iran's shipping and energy operations.  |
| Barak: UN vote on Palestinians not a big move Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:52 PM PST WASHINGTON (AP) — Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak says the Palestinian push for recognition by the United Nations is a bad move, but he also calls it a symbolic act that will have no major impact on any aspect of the Israeli-Palestinian relationship.  |
| APNewsBreak: $4M settlement in Conn. chimp attack Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:45 PM PST STAMFORD, Conn. (AP) — A settlement agreement calls for a woman disfigured in a chimpanzee attack to receive about $4 million from the estate of the animal's now-dead owner, according to documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.  |
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| Army GI testifies he thought he'd die in custody Posted: 29 Nov 2012 02:48 PM PST FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — An Army private charged in the biggest security breach in U.S. history testified Thursday that he felt like a doomed, caged animal after he was arrested in Baghdad for allegedly sending classified information to the secret-spilling website WikiLeaks.  |
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