Boston faces riot-control test
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A student was killed last week as police tried to curb unruly celebrations. Would a World Series win turn violent?
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More than 10 blinking electronic devices planted at bridges and other spots in Boston threw a scare into the city Wednesday in what turned out to be a publicity campaign for a late-night cable cartoon. Most if not all of the devices depict a character giving the finger.
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Thousands of people working in downtown high-rise buildings left their jobs early Thursday to test the city's response to a terrorist attack or other emergency.
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The pranksters in Boston tested a city's patience--and the boundaries of taste in a country torn between fears of terrorism and an appetite for guerrilla comedy.
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The NBA regular season is a week off, but tempers Monday night were in midseason form. In Columbus, Ohio, the Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers needed to be separated by security personnel and coaches
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Boston's police, facing an upsurge in murder and other violent crimes, have set up a system to allow witnesses to tip them off to crime by sending anonymous text messages.
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In Boston, witnesses are still intimidated in almost every case involving gangs or other violent crime.
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In April 1976, Ted Landsmark stumbled into a crowd of whites demonstrating against the city's desegregation school busing and was speared with the pointed staff of an American flag. A photo of the attack won a Pulitzer Prize and branded Boston as racially intolerant.
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Incident has fueled criticism of a plan to build a state-of-the-art research lab to study some of the world's most lethal germs in Boston.
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The Red Sox are trying to keep up their momentum tonight at Fenway Park in Game Two of the World Series. Boston scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning.
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BOSTON Massachusetts is the least-prepared of all states to handle a bioterrorist attack, according to a study released yesterday.
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EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - The Revolution are set up to shoot first and ask questions later.
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For the second time in four years, the Red Sox will host a rolling rally Tuesday, stopping three times so closer Jonathan Papelbon can show off dance moves for Boston fans.
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Boston officials, livid about a publicity campaign that had disrupted the city by stirring fears of terrorism, vowed to prosecute those responsible and seek restitution.
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Protesters say police tactics are too aggressive; police say they're just doing their best to keep the city calm.
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Authorities say the recent terror alert issued for Boston was the result of an act of revenge by an immigrant smuggler allegedly trying to get back at people who failed to pay him. The apparent hoax has renewed scrutiny on the choices that authorities must make between deciding when to warn the public and when to investigate quietly without broadcasting the threat.
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Modern police departments have been deploying modified paintball guns like the ones provided by Pepperball, Inc. to help police officers balance the American people's First Amendment right of free assembly against the demands of politicians. The "less than lethal" designation of these weapons was highlighted recently by the shooting death of Victoria Snelgrove, a baseball fan, by Pepperball equipped police near Fenway Park in Boston.