Thousands attend annual pot rally in Boston Common
About 40,000 people gathered for the ninth Freedom Rally in Boston Common to back marijuana legalization. Police arrested around 40 on drug possession charges, far fewer than last year’s 150 arrests at a larger crowd.
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Boston Common
Bill Downing
Massachusetts Cannabis Reform Coalition
Amy Cook
Doug Goudreau
Peabody
Goudreau
Richard Elrick
Cape Cod
Barnstable
Seniors share space flight training in Kansas
Nearly three dozen people aged 55 and older attend the Elderhostel Astronaut Program at the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center as John Glenn prepares to fly again. Participants, including 83 year old Herman Noweck, endure centrifuge spins and intense G forces to connect with the space legacy.
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Kan
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Fair Haven
N.J
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Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center
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al Yee
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Jim Franko
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Yee
Air Force
Explosive devices found outside two Cumberland clinics
Explosives discovered near Carolina Women's Clinic and Hallmark Women's Clinic in Fayetteville, both defused with no injuries. Authorities tied the earlier Sept fire at the Carolina clinic to the incident, with no arrests reported.
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N.C
Cumberland County
Carolina Women’s Clinic
Hallmark Women’s Clinic
Boston College hit by racist e mail aimed at minorities
Thirteen minority students at Boston College received an anonymous note stating BC is for white men. Officials vow to suspend or expel the author if identified amid campus hate incidents tied to graffiti and similar cases nationwide.
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Newton
Mass
Kalia Silva
Providence, R.L
AHANA
Reid Oslin
Jonathan Zittrain
Center For Internet and Society
Harvard Law School
Judge rejects motion in racially charged slaying
INDEPENDENCE Virginia AP One of two white men accused of burning a black man alive loses a motion to learn the defense strategy. Cressell's murder trial set for Oct 28. Co defendant Ceparano pleaded guilty to capital murder and robbery, receiving two life terms. Cressell awaits trial in Grayson County jail. Sheriff’s investigator took mail from Cressell’s cell and held it for about an hour.
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Cressell
Louis Ceparano
Garnett P Johnson Jr
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Securities fraud nets 12 arrests in New York
In White Plains, twelve people were indicted for securities fraud over three years, with investor losses exceeding $100 million. Defendants include Alan Scott Lipsky and others linked to Monroe Parker Securities Inc of Purchase. The scheme allegedly defrauded investors during a market boom, according to state Attorney General Dennis Vacco's office.
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N.Y
Westchester County
Alan Scott Lipsky
Monroe Parker Securities Inc
Purchase
Monroe Parker Bunch
Marc Wurzel
Dennis Vacco
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