Obama takes health care overhaul push to Missouri
The nation's top health official challenged insurers on Wednesday to join President Barack Obama's push to overhaul the medical system, arguing that if the effort fails it will hurt them as well as other Americans.
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Not more quakes, just more people in quake zones
By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer First the ground shook in Haiti, then Chile and now Turkey. The earthquakes keep coming hard and fast this year, causing people to wonder if something sinister is happening...
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Senate passes jobless aid, business tax breaks
The Senate voted Wednesday to extend a host of soon-to-expire elements of last year's economic stimulus measure, including help for the jobless and money to help financially strapped states pay for health care for the poor.
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Researchers: AIDS virus can hide in bone marrow
The virus that causes AIDS can hide in the bone marrow, avoiding drugs and later awakening to cause illness, according to new research that could point the way toward better treatments for the disease.
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Hoped-for drop in childbirth deaths not happening
Eleven days after her son Benjamin's birth by C-section, Linda Coale awoke in the middle of the night in pain, one leg badly swollen. Just as her doctor returned her phone call asking what to do, she dropped dead from a...
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Mass. RMV highlighting ways to avoid branch visit
Associated Press - March 9, 2010 3:24 PM ET BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles is trying a workaround after the governor killed a $5 fee it wanted to impose for...
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Mass. Senate set to vote on school nutrition bill
Associated Press - March 10, 2010 1:44 PM ET BOSTON (AP) - The Massachusetts Senate is weighing a bill that would ban the sale of salty and sugary snacks as well as high-calorie sodas in public...
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Mass. Sen. Scott Brown to release memoir in 2011
Sen. Scott Brown, the Massachusetts Republican who pulled off one of the biggest upsets in recent years by winning the seat once held by Sen. Edward Kennedy, has a book deal.
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Westfield parents discuss anti-bullying measures with school board
WESTFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- In light of the recent suicide of a South Hadley High School student after she was allegedly bullied, parents in Westfield gathered to discuss a review of their school district's anti-bullying policies.
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Expert: Home invasion suspect still suicidal
Associated Press - March 10, 2010 11:04 AM ET NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A mental health expert says a Connecticut man charged in a deadly home invasion remains suicidal and his new strategy is to...
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Man killed in Hartford shooting
Associated Press - March 10, 2010 9:44 AM ET HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Hartford police are investigating the shooting death of a man found in front of a North End home.
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Robot explorer stuck in pipe at Vt. nuke plant
Associated Press - March 10, 2010 9:15 AM ET VERNON, Vt. (AP) - A small robot looking for the source of a radioactive leak at the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant is stuck in the mud.
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Suspect in Northampton arson spree arraigned
NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (WGGB) -- The suspect accused in a December arson spree has been arraigned Monday in Hampshire Superior Court on dozens of charges, including murder.
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Worcester man convicted of killing roommate
Associated Press - March 10, 2010 6:04 AM ET WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - A Worcester man has been found guilty of fatally stabbing 1 of his roommates during a dispute over rent money.
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Death of Mass. psych patient ruled homicide
Associated Press - March 10, 2010 5:44 AM ET BOSTON (AP) - The death of a patient who died after a scuffle with guards at a psychiatric hospital run by the Massachusetts prisons department has...
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A policy change on abortion, but how radical?
President Barack Obama's health care bill would change federal policy on abortion, but it would not open the spigot of taxpayer dollars as some abortion opponents fear.
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Hospital remains committed to community
This time last year, Shriners Hospital for Children in Springfield was facing an uncertain future. Today, the hospital is unveiling a new outpatient clinic and making a statement about it's commitment to the community.
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Obama pitches health plan in spirited appearance
Stirring memories of his campaign for the White House, President Barack Obama made a spirited, shirt-sleeved appeal for passage of long-stalled health care changes Monday as Democratic congressional leaders worked behind the...
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Brown team to apply winning strategy elsewhere
The political team that helped Scott Brown stage his improbable victory in the Massachusetts Senate race wants to apply its winning strategy elsewhere this election year. First stop: Rhode Island.
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Scott Brown campaigns for McCain in Arizona
Facing the toughest re-election battle of his career, John McCain enlisted a rising star of the Republican Party in a bid Friday to lock down support among conservative primary voters.
| White House tweeting spreads president's message
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Locals affected by national tomato shortage
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- A tomato shortage resulting from poor weather in Florida has hit local stores and restaurants, and it has affected the way some people do business locally.
| Mass. candidate for gov. loses campaign manager
BOSTON (AP) - Republican Christy Mihos' campaign for governor has suffered another setback with the resignation of campaign manager Joe Manzoli.
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2 of oldest people in US die: in NH 114, Mich. 113
Two of the oldest people in the world have died on the same day.
| Kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard shares home videos
Kidnapping victim Jaycee Dugard, held captive for 18 years in a ramshackle backyard compound, was seen cooking with her sister and mother and riding horses in recently shot home videos aired on ABC Friday.
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Anti-nuke group wants Vt. plant closed now
Associated Press - March 9, 2010 10:05 AM ET MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - An anti-nuke group is asking Vermont regulators to close Vermont Yankee now, citing a leak of radioactive tritium whose...
| Pa. woman denies she's Massachusetts kidnapper
Associated Press - March 9, 2010 9:04 AM ET HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A central Pennsylvania woman is fighting extradition to Massachusetts where police have charged her with abducting her...
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Gloucester man pleads guilty to striking whales
Associated Press - March 9, 2010 8:24 AM ET BOSTON (AP) - A Gloucester fisherman has been fined $200 after pleading guilty to striking two federally protected humpback whales with his...
| Bigelow pioneers Oscars with 'Hurt Locker' win
Kathryn Bigelow played field commander to bring her raw, relentless Iraq War thriller "The Hurt Locker" to the screen.
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Mass. DOT to review Big Dig handrails
Associated Press - March 9, 2010 6:04 AM ET BOSTON (AP) - The state Transportation Department has launched review of handrails in some Big Dig tunnels that have been connected to the deaths of...
| Employment data lift hopes but where are the jobs?
At last, the unemployment crisis seems to be easing. That's the good news.
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Japanese princess bullied at elementary school
Japan's Princess Aiko, granddaughter of the emperor, has missed several days of classes because of bullying by boys at her elementary school, a spokesman for the royal family said Friday.
| Survivors shiver in Turkey after quake kills 51
Hundreds of earthquake survivors huddled in aid tents and around bonfires Monday in eastern Turkey, seeking relief from the winter cold after a strong temblor knocked down stone and mud-brick houses in five villages, killing...
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Angry students protest cuts to schools, colleges
Anger over rising tuition and school budget cuts boiled over as students across the country staged rowdy demonstrations that led to clashes with police and the rush-hour shutdown of a major freeway in California.
| Mass. man charged in fatal fires faces arraignment
Associated Press - March 8, 2010 6:24 AM ET NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) - A Northampton man accused of setting a string of fires in the city that resulted in two deaths is scheduled to be arraigned...
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Western Mass. Residents Weigh-in on Health Care Debate
President Obama continues to pitch his health care reform plan.
| JFK condolence letters published for 1st time
Among the 1.5 million condolence letters sent to President John F. Kennedy's widow after his assassination in 1963 were more than two dozen from Jane Dryden, a dogged and dramatic 11-year-old who churned out a letter a week...
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Two arraigned for Pittsfield murder, third suspect wanted
PITTSFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- Two men have been arraigned Monday in Central Berkshire District Court on murder charges in connection with a Saturday morning stabbing that left a 26-year-old man dead, while investigators are searching for a third suspect.
| Springfield ophthalmologist placed on probation after taking drugs
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- The Board of Registration of Medicine has disciplined a Springfield opthalmologist after it was alleged that he used drugs while practicing medicine and had improper conduct with a patient.
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Springfield's PACT office closed from budget cuts
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) -- Despite requests to Gov. Deval Patrick to keep a Center for Human Development Program for Assertive Community Treatment for mentally ill patients open in Western Massachusetts, the program's office closed its doors for good in February.
| Drugs at Mass. nursing homes could pose risks
BOSTON (AP) - Federal officials say nearly 2,500 Massachusetts nursing home residents were given powerful antipsychotic drugs last year that were not intended or recommended for their medical condition.
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Early Start to Golf Season
WESTFIELD, Mass. (wggb) - Temperatures in the 50's had golfers teeing off during the first weekend of March.
| Levin is acting chair of Ways and Means panel
Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan took over Thursday as chairman of the powerful tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee Thursday after Democrats decided they wanted a consensus builder rather than a firebrand going into the...
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Ways to Volunteer
WILBRAHAM, Mass. (WGGB) - People in Wilbraham Sunday learned about the many different ways they can give back to the community during the Good Works Fair at the Wilbraham United Church.
| Woman pistol whipped in Chicopee bank robbery
CHICOPEE, Mass. (WGGB) -- A woman has been pistol whipped during a morning robbery at a Meadow Street bank, according to police, and authorities in several communities have been looking for the robber.
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Brown recalls sad first task as US senator
Associated Press - March 8, 2010 1:14 PM ET BOSTON (AP) - Scott Brown says 1 of his first tasks as a U.S. senator was a sad one: helping return to body of Haiti earthquake victim Britney...
| Supermarket workers approve Stop & Shop contract
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Supermarket workers at Stop & Shop in southern New England have ratified a contract that ends weeks of difficult negotiations over wages and benefits.
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Jeff Bridges wins best actor Oscar
The Dude finally has an Oscar.
| Sandra Bullock wins first Oscar as best actress
Sandra Bullock paid her dues in Hollywood for more than 20 years, beloved by the moviegoing public if not always the critics. She was rewarded Sunday, winning the best-actress Oscar for playing a tough white Southern woman...
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Obama urges Dems to seize moment on health care
Support from his own party in doubt, President Barack Obama summoned more than a dozen House Democrats to the White House Thursday, pleading with them to put aside their qualms, seize a historic moment and vote for his...
| More men file workplace sexual harassment claims
Jonathan Pilkington's boss wouldn't take no for an answer.
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Report: 25 percent of Conn. school buses unsafe
Associated Press - March 8, 2010 6:44 AM ET HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - A Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles spokesman says the agency is trying to keep pressure on school bus companies with...
| Chile military rolls out post-quake aid effort
The Chilean military's humanitarian aid effort hit the streets, carrying food and water to some areas that had seen little of either since a mammoth earthquake struck five days ago.
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Northampton gives tax break to Coca Cola
Associated Press - March 7, 2010 1:44 PM ET NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) - Northampton has offered Coca-Cola Co. a nearly $35,000 tax break to coax the soft drink giant to expand a plant adding 40...
| Meals tax brings in more revenue than expected
Associated Press - March 7, 2010 10:04 AM ET BOSTON, Mass. (AP) - Communities that have taken the authority offered by the Massachusetts Legislature to impose a meals tax have generally found...
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Senate rejects Social Security bonus payment
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a proposal byPresident Barack Obama to give people on Social Security a $250 bonus check.
| Mass. health insurers want significant rate hikes
Associated Press - March 6, 2010 3:54 PM ET BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts health insurance companies have asked the state to approve significant rate hikes, weeks after Gov.
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Mass. Senate to debate sweeping anti-bullying bill
Associated Press - March 6, 2010 12:34 PM ET BOSTON (AP) - Massachusetts schools would be required to take a tougher stand against classroom bullies under a bill set to be debated by the state...
| Senators: Lift ban on gays donating blood
WASHINGTON (AP) - Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry and 17 colleagues are calling on the FDA to lift the lifetime ban on donating blood for any man who has had gay sex since 1977.
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