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  • At Bulger trial, ex-agent apologizes for killing

    BOSTON (AP) -- A former FBI agent who admitted taking payoffs from James "Whitey" Bulger offered a tearful apology Monday to the family of one of Bulger's alleged murder victims, but the man's widow said his words "didn't mean anything."(   07/01/2013 4:31 PM )

  • Conn. water utility to cut rates for 2 years

    CLINTON, Conn. (AP) -- A water utility agreed on Monday to cut rates for customers, taking advantage of new federal tax rules to reimburse ratepayers while making needed improvements to the water system.(   07/01/2013 4:30 PM )

  • Mass. lawmakers agree on photo IDs for EBT cards

    BOSTON (AP) -- State lawmakers have approved a requirement that photo identification be placed on electronic benefit transfer cards for most welfare recipients.(   07/01/2013 4:27 PM )

  • Texas lawmakers are back, and so is abortion fight

    AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The Texas Legislature has recessed for the week, less than an hour after convening its second special session. That was just long enough to refer abortion legislation to committees for public hearings.(   07/01/2013 4:25 PM )

  • Powerful thunderstorms move through Mass.

    BOSTON (AP) -- Powerful thunderstorms moving though Massachusetts have caused steet flooding, downed trees and scattered power outages.(   07/01/2013 4:25 PM )

  • Lawmakers approve $34B Mass. budget

    BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts lawmakers approved a $34 billion state budget that includes additional aid for cities and towns and enough funding for the University of Massachusetts to avoid a tuition increase in the upcoming academic year.(   07/01/2013 4:23 PM )

  • Conn. advocates say work ahead for gay marriage

    HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- Gay-marriage advocates who celebrated the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to strike down a key part of the federal Defense of Marriage Act warned on Monday that more work is needed to ensure the state's same-sex couples receive full marriage rights under federal law.(   07/01/2013 4:17 PM )

  • Gay couple may be 1st to win immigration petition

    FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- A Bulgarian graduate student and his American husband are the first gay couple in the nation to have their application for immigration benefits approved after the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriages, their lawyer says.(   07/01/2013 4:13 PM )

  • A look at deadly US accidents involving fire crews

    A look at some of the deadliest U.S. tragedies to have claimed the lives of wildland firefighters, including the 19 killed in an Arizona blaze Sunday:(   07/01/2013 4:13 PM )

  • WikiLeaks 'most wanted' list admitted in trial

    FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- A military judge is allowing prosecutors to argue an Army private used a most wanted list compiled by WikiLeaks as a guide for leaking classified information.(   07/01/2013 4:11 PM )

  • Police officers testify in George Zimmerman trial

    SANFORD, Fla. (AP) -- Jurors in the George Zimmerman murder trial on Monday heard testimony and recordings of the neighborhood watch volunteer describing his fight with 17-year-old Trayvon Martin to police and how he feared for his life before he shot the teen.(   07/01/2013 4:10 PM )

  • Records: Dolan warned Vatican of sex abuse scandal

    MILWAUKEE (AP) -- As the Archdiocese of Milwaukee prepared to file for bankruptcy amid dozens of claims by victims of clergy sex abuse, then-Archbishop Timothy Dolan sought and received permission from a Vatican office to move $57 million from a cemetery fund into a trust to provide "improved protection," according to documents made public Monday.(   07/01/2013 4:09 PM )

  • Bodies of 19 fallen firefighters arrive in Phoenix

    PHOENIX (AP) -- A caravan of white vans carrying the bodies of 19 firefighters killed in the Yarnell wildfire has arrived in Phoenix.(   07/01/2013 4:08 PM )

  • House Dems seek path to final immigration deal

    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hispanics, blacks, Asians and women who together stand as the majority in the House Democratic caucus publicly disparage Republicans' piecemeal approach to immigration and their pointed omission of any legalization path for the 11 million immigrants living here unlawfully.(   07/01/2013 4:07 PM )

  • Suburban NY mom in pot case to be released

    NEW YORK (AP) -- A suburban New York mom charged with growing thousands of marijuana plants worth millions of dollars is being released from prison.(   07/01/2013 4:04 PM )

  • National Weather Service: Conn. tornado probable

    EAST WINDSOR, Conn. (AP) -- A tornado likely struck north-central Connecticut on Monday, a National Weather Service forecaster said.(   07/01/2013 4:36 PM )

  • Tolls, economic agency dominate session's endgame

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island entered a new fiscal year without a state budget as lawmakers seek to end their 2013 session this week.(   07/01/2013 3:56 PM )

  • Judge: Trial possible on Mich. gay marriage ban

    DETROIT (AP) -- A judge signaled Monday that a trial is possible to determine whether Michigan's ban on gay marriage is constitutional, nearly nine years after voters approved it by a wide margin.(   07/01/2013 3:53 PM )

  • No Maine law license for F. Lee Bailey _ yet

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Celebrity attorney F. Lee Bailey is going to have to wait a few months to find out if he can practice law in Maine, where he hopes to restart his legal career.(   07/01/2013 3:51 PM )

  • 'Dark day': Flags lowered for 19 dead firefighters

    YARNELL, Ariz. (AP) -- As the windblown blaze suddenly swept toward them, an elite crew of firefighting "Hotshots" desperately rushed to break out their emergency shelters and take cover on the ground under the heat-resistant fabric.(   07/01/2013 3:44 PM )

  • Vt. Rep. Townsend loses battle with cancer

    RANDOLPH, Vt. (AP) -- Vermont State Rep. Larry Townsend of Randolph has died after a battle with cancer.(   07/01/2013 3:44 PM )

  • Manchester man sentenced for 2011 shooting

    MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) -- A Manchester, N.H., man has been sentenced to 43½ years to life in prison for shooting an acquaintance in the head in 2011.(   07/01/2013 3:44 PM )

  • Candidates lining up for Markey's seat in Mass.

    BOSTON (AP) -- The race for the House seat being vacated by U.S. Sen.-elect Edward Markey is heating up.(   07/01/2013 3:44 PM )

  • Vt. gov marks repayment of unemployment loan

    MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Three years after Vermont cut benefits to unemployed workers and began borrowing from the federal government to shore up its unemployment trust fund, Gov. Peter Shumlin hit the send button Monday to pay the borrowed money back two years early.(   07/01/2013 3:42 PM )

  • Booms of cannon mark opening of Gettysburg battle

    GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) -- The booms of ground-shaking cannon fire Monday marked the start of the Battle of Gettysburg, 150 years after Union and Confederate soldiers fought the defining encounter of the American Civil War.(   07/01/2013 3:32 PM )