BOSTON (AP) — Prosecutors have dropped an indecent assault and battery charge against New England Patriots receiver Julian Edelman, saying evidence suggests he just briefly grabbed the hand of a woman who accused him of groping her. The 25-year-old Edelman was accused of grabbing the woman’s crotch during a Halloween party at a Boston nightclub. […]
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Good pass rushers haunt Pats
Week after week, the New England Patriots have kept strong pass rushers away from Tom Brady. Now here come the Denver Broncos. If Von Miller doesn’t get the sack, chances are Elvis Dumervil will. “Von Miller, he’s a phenomenal player,” Brady said Wednesday. “And then with Elvis on the other side, they’ve really got two […]
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Shoppach could mean end for Varitek in Boston
The Boston Red Sox want Jason Varitek back. It might not be as a player, though. Two days after signing free agent Kelly Shoppach — giving the Red Sox a full complement of three catchers who are expected to be on the major league squad — general manager Ben Cherington said the team is still […]
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MT. ARARAT 2 CAMDEN HILLS 5
Even though the youngish Brunswick High School boys hockey team qualified for the playoffs last season with a freshman-dominated lineup, the Dragons still struggle with their youth at times. Take Thursday’s Eastern Maine Class A tussle with the tri-team of Maranacook/Hall- Dale/Winthrop, a 6-3 loss for Brunswick at Bowdoin College’s Sidney J. Watson Arena. The […]
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Air Force investigates photo of airmen with casket
SAN ANTONIO, Texas (AP) — The Air Force said Thursday it was investigating a photograph of a group of airmen posing with another airman pretending to be dead and lying in an open casket with a noose around his neck. Written at the bottom of the photo are the words: “ Da Dumpt, Da Dumpt […]
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Former leader convicted of corruption
PARIS (AP) — As French president, Jacques Chirac was called all sorts of names, not the least for his vociferous opposition to the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Now, he has a moniker that will stick: Convicted criminal. The avuncular 79-year-old on Thursday became France’s first former leader to be convicted since Marshal Philippe Petain, who […]
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Utah officer comforts woman pinned under bus
WEST VALLEY CITY, Utah (AP) — A Utah police officer who held the hand of a frightened 24-year-old woman pinned under a bus with crushed legs said he promised not to leave her until she got out alive. A photo captures West Valley City officer Kevin Peck wedged between an icy street and the undercarriage […]
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Bronte work sets record
LONDON ( AP) — An unpublished Charlotte Bronte manuscript has sold for a record $1.1 million at auction, more than double the expected price, Sotheby’s auction house said Thursday. The Young Men’s Magazine, Number 2, was written in 1830 — when the author was 14, 17 years before she wrote “Jane Eyre.” It is set […]
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Gallows site becomes museum, memorial
PRETORIA, South Africa ( AP) — Martha Mahlangu can’t bear to visit the prison where her son, an antiapartheid guerrilla, was hanged. But she says it’s important that other South Africans see the gallows the government opened as a monument Thursday. The new memorial recreates the place where political prisoners like Solomon Mahlangu climbed the […]