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Gov't probe obtains wide swath of AP phone records
The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news. The records obtained by the Justice Department listed outgoing calls for the ...
RNC chairman says Holder should resign
The chairman of the Republican National Committee says Attorney General Eric Holder should resign over the decision by the Justice Department to secretly obtain two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press. RNC chairman Reince Priebus (ryns PREE'-bus) says Holder has "trampled on the First ...
Hedge fund boss gets 6 1/2 years in insider case
The co-founder of a Connecticut hedge fund who authorities said made his firm nearly $70 million in illegal profit through insider trading was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison. Anthony Chiasson, 39, of Manhattan, had been convicted in December of five counts of securities fraud and one count ...
Franklin pulls out of shows under doctor's orders
Aretha Franklin has canceled appearances in Chicago and Connecticut later this month under a doctor's recommendation. A Monday news release says Franklin will need treatment during the time period shows were scheduled with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra on May 20 and at Foxwoods Resort & Casino in Connecticut on May ...
Correction: Music-Brubeck Tribute story
In a May 12 story about a tribute to the late jazz pianist Dave Brubeck, The Associated Press incorrectly gave the name of the Brubeck son who performed on cello. His name is Matthew Brubeck, not Michael Brubeck. Michael Brubeck, the jazz legend's second-oldest son, died of a heart attack ...
Newtown panel: Tear down Sandy Hook, rebuild
Newtown parents Steven Uhde and Peter Barresi didn't want the town to abandon the elementary school property where 20 first-graders and six educators were killed in December and build a new school elsewhere, saying that would be like letting the gunman win. So they were glad Friday night when a ...
Newtown panel: Tear down Sandy Hook, rebuild
A task force of elected officials on Friday recommended tearing down the Connecticut elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot dead in December and rebuilding on the site. The group of 28 Newtown elected officials voted unanimously in favor of a plan that would construct a new ...
'SoNew' tourism effort highlights Mass., RI, Conn.
People travel from all over the world to walk the Freedom Trail in Boston, see the autumn leaves turn in Vermont and New Hampshire and eat lobster in Maine. A new campaign involving tourism officials in three states to the south and west of Boston is aimed at peeling off ...
Whole Foods mixes up chicken, vegan salads
Whole Foods Market Inc. said that labels on a chicken salad and those on a vegan version were reversed at some of its cold food bars in the Northeast. The mislabeled salads — a curried chicken salad and a vegan curried "chick'n" salad — were sold in 15 stores in ...
Conn. school challenges $41.7M jury verdict
A Connecticut boarding school is challenging a $41.7 million jury award to a former student who contracted a tick-borne illness on a school trip to China, saying the school could not have foreseen the risk and the award was excessive. The federal jury ruled in March in favor of Cara ...
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