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Immigration overhaul: Senate passes historic bill

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 02:13 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — With a solemnity reserved for momentous occasions, the Senate passed historic legislation Thursday offering the priceless hope of citizenship to millions of immigrants living illegally in America's shadows. The bill also promises a military-style effort to secure the long-porous border with Mexico.
    

3 schools would share redeveloped Dynamo House

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:44 PM PDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A major Providence landmark that has sat vacant since 1999 would be redeveloped for shared use by Brown University and two public higher education institutions under a $200 million redevelopment plan announced Thursday.
    

Spy program gathered Americans' Internet records

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:35 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents disclosed Thursday show that the Obama administration gathered U.S. citizens' Internet data until 2011, continuing a spying program started under President George W. Bush that revealed who Americans exchanged emails with and the Internet Protocol address of their computer.
    

Former Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, charged with murder, fails in second attempt to get bail

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:34 PM PDT

Police on Wednesday found .45-caliber bullets in a condo rented by former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez and in a car linked to him, the same caliber ammunition Hernandez allegedly used to shoot and kill Odin L. Lloyd in a North Attleborough industrial park on June 17, a prosecutor said today. The new disclosure about a possible forensic link between Hernandez and the murder of Lloyd, a 27-year-old Dorchester man, was made in Bristol Superior Court, where attorneys for Hernandez asked Judge Renee P. Dupuis to allow him to be freed on bail while he fights a first-degree murder charge.
    

Senate passes immigration bill

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:31 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed historic immigration legislation offering the hope of American citizenship to millions, while promising a military-style surge to secure the border.
    

Senate votes 68-32 to pass historic immigration bill, send measure to House

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:23 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate votes 68-32 to pass historic immigration bill, send measure to House.
    

GOP's Cafero not running for Conn. governor in '14

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:17 PM PDT

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — State House Minority Leader Lawrence Cafero Jr. announced Thursday he will not be a candidate for governor next year.
    

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Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:12 PM PDT

    

Detroit EM strips council president's pay, power

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:10 PM PDT

DETROIT (AP) — Detroit's state-appointed emergency manager has issued an order stripping the pay and authority from AWOL City Council President Charles Pugh.
    

Indictment: Bombing suspect bought fireworks in NH

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 01:01 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — A federal indictment says one of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings bought fireworks in Seabrook, N.H., two months before the bombing.
    

Vt. gov. urges vigilance with heavy rains ahead

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:59 PM PDT

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont braced Thursday for heavy rains that could drop up to 4 inches in some places and cause flooding in areas where the ground is already saturated after days of stormy weather that has already washed out some roads.
    

RI Senate to vote on $8.2B state budget

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:57 PM PDT

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An $8.2 billion state budget proposal for Rhode Island is heading to a vote in the state Senate.
    

House OKs bill protecting sexual assault victims

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:48 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has approved a bill extending whistle-blower protection to members of the military who are victims of sexual assault.
    

Ex-FBI agent says he received gifts from Bulger

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:47 PM PDT

BOSTON (AP) — As former FBI agent John Morris described reputed gangster James "Whitey" Bulger's role as an informant who ratted on criminals, Bulger stared intently at Morris.
    

Magnitude 4.3 quake hits north-central Wash.

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:44 PM PDT

LEAVENWORTH, Wash. (AP) — Dozens of people have reported feeling a 4.3-magnitude earthquake that rocked central Washington.
    

Vt. delegation seeks 2 rivers for 'wild' system

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:42 PM PDT

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The three members of Vermont's congressional delegation are hoping to add the Upper Missisquoi and Trout rivers in the northern part of the state to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
    

NH to patrol waters for drunken boaters

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:24 PM PDT

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire's Marine Patrol will be participating in a national effort this weekend to try to cut down on drunken boating crashes.
    

Sikorsky cuts jobs, cites weak military spending

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:23 PM PDT

STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) — Helicopter maker Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. is laying off 200 workers due to military spending cuts and the uneven economic recovery.
    

Suicide victim's sister says deputy harassed him

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:18 PM PDT

MOSCOW, Idaho (AP) — The sister of a 19-year-old Pullman, Wash., man who committed suicide last weekend is seeking an apology from an Idaho sheriff's deputy she says harassed her brother via Facebook in the days before his death.
    

Sikorsky cuts jobs, cites weak military spending

Posted: 27 Jun 2013 12:11 PM PDT

STRATFORD, Conn. (AP) — Helicopter maker Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. is laying off 200 workers due to military spending cuts and the uneven economic recovery.