At Boston, Massachusetts: as of 5:54 PM
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[28 min ago ]
BOSTON (AP) - State Street Corp. says it will cut 1,600 to 1,800 jobs, or 6 percent of its global work force, between now and the end of the 2009 first quarter. The Boston-based financial services company will reduce its staff mostly by...
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[29 min ago ]
(Alison King, NECN) - Governor Deval Ptrick's new task force on ethics is getting to work. The Governor created a special task force on ethics after former State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was charged with taking payoffs. Also unresolved, criminal charges...
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[1 hour ago ]
(Anya Huneke, NECN: Burlington, VT) - A trial got underway today in Vermont- involving a priest who a former altar boy claims molested him in the 1970s. The suit is not against the priest, but Vermont's Roman Catholic Diocese, which the plaintiff says...
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Boy kidnapped in Boston found safe, no arrests made
(John Moroney, NECN: Boston, MA) - There is good news in the search for a nine-year-old boy, who was......read more
WORLD: Americans to send cell phones to Cubans
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May 21, 2008
Americans to send cell phones to Cubans


(NECN) - The White House took note of the 106th anniversary of Cuban independence, to call on the new government to the necessary steps, to full fill promises of allowing more freedom in Cuba.

President Bush is announcing a policy change that will let Americans send cell phones to Cubans - a move that he hopes will push the regime to increase freedom of expression for Cuban citizens.

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