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Police departments from all over Greater Boston came to Malden Friday night to help police pursue alleged bank robbers who engaged police officers in a gunfight near the 500 block of Broadway Friday night. 

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Dev. Academy preview: DC United, Baltimore Bays Chelsea in action ahead of …

By Jimmy LaRoue Baltimore Bays Chelsea takes on FC Greater Boston in Development Academy action this weekend, while D.C. United travels north to face New York Cosmos Academy and Met Oval. Bays Chelsea and United face each other the following week. Patrick Koscher leads Bays Chelsea's U-16s (7-1-1) with five goals, while two others–Babatunji Osifeso and Andrew Smith, have four each. FC Greater Boston is 4-2-2 overall.  For Bays Chelsea's U-18s (5-4-0), Christian Porras and Yaw Amankwa have four goals each to lead the team. For D.C. United's U-16s (4-4-1), they're led by five-goal scorer Michael Continue reading >>>

Fuseideas lands ad account for the Bermuda Department of Tourism

By Chris Reidy, Globe Staff Somerville ad agency Fuseideas said Friday that the government of Bermuda has awarded it the business of the Bermuda Department of Tourism. Fuseideas won the account following a competitive bid process. The department has an estimated marketing budget of $13 million. Fuseideas has experience in the tourism industry. Fuseideas has done work for the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism as well as the Maine Office of Tourism, among others. According to Fuseideas, 65 percent of Bermuda’s tourists come from either Greater Boston or the New York City Continue reading >>>

Fuseideas lands ad account for the Bermuda Department of Tourism

Somerville ad agency Fuseideas said Friday that the government of Bermuda has awarded it the business of the Bermuda Department of Tourism. Fuseideas won the account following a competitive bid process. The department has an estimated marketing budget of $13 million. Fuseideas has experience in the tourism industry. Fuseideas has done work for the Massachusetts Office of Travel and Tourism as well as the Maine Office of Tourism, among others. According to Fuseideas, 65 percent of Bermuda’s tourists come from either Greater Boston or the New York City tri-state area. Fuseideas Continue reading >>>

Will Massachusetts US Attorney Run for Governor?

Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz may have her eye on the Bay State’s governorship come the next election in 2014. According to a report by Chris Cassidy of the Boston Herald, “the Democratic rumor mill is buzzing” about the possibility Ortiz, the state’s first Hispanic and first female U.S. Attorney, will run for the Democratic nomination. Gov. Deval Patrick, a Democrat, has said he will not seek a third term. Carmen Ortiz “She’s had a high profile as a U.S. Continue reading >>>

Harvard Square protest mounted over Trayvon Martin shooting

Okeoma Nwakanma, a 20-year-old Harvard student who was one of the protest organizers, said interest in the event took off after the students set up a Facebook page Tuesday to publicize the event.“It just gained so much momentum, I think because it’s an issue that people can rally around because it’s not just about color it’s about social justice,” said Nwakanma, who is president of the Harvard African Students Association.Martin, who was 17, was unarmed when he was shot to death Feb. 26 in Sanford, Fla. by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Zimmerman claims the shooting was Continue reading >>>

Celts Co-Owner Offers Aid in Church Foreclosure Feud

(Source: Jerry Kronenberg Boston Herald MCT) – Multimillionaire Steve Pagliuca and a second wealthy Bostonian are offering to help Roxbury’s historic Charles Street AME Church pay off debts that pushed it to the brink of foreclosure, the Herald has learned. Court papers and interviews show that Pagliuca and another unidentified party contacted the church separately in recent weeks after hearing that the 194-year-old congregation could lose its home. “I think we can have a win for the community and a win for the bank,” Pagliuca, a Bain Capital executive who co-owns the Boston Celtics, Continue reading >>>

An enormous Juno statue at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston

Boston, 23 March 2012, Art Media Agency (AMA). The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has purchased the largest ever classical sculpture in existence in the United States. The statue portrays the Roman goddess Juno, queen of gods and the heavens, protector of women and a symbol of marriage and fertility. Measuring almost 13 feet and weighing 13,000 pounds, the statue was transfered to the museum with the help of a crane on 20 March 2012. Identified for the first time in 1633 in the inventory of the Ludovisi collection – one of the most important Roman antiquities and 17th century paintings Continue reading >>>

Boston fighter Callum Johnson is ready for the big shows

Published on Friday 23 March 2012 10:30 THE One Show is ready for the big shows. Callum Johnson believes his first-round demolition of Tommy Tolan proves he is a star in the making.The light heavyweight needed just 90 seconds to finish off the Irishman at Glasgow’s Braehead Arena last Saturday.But it wasn’t just the emphatic win that makes the 26-year-old Bostonian believe Continue reading >>>

Celts co-owner offers aid in church foreclosure feud

Multimillionaire Steve Pagliuca and a second wealthy Bostonian are offering to help Roxbury’s historic Charles Street AME Church pay off debts that pushed it to the brink of foreclosure, the Herald has learned. Court papers and interviews show that Pagliuca and another unidentified party contacted the church separately in recent weeks after hearing that the 194-year-old congregation could lose its home. “I think we can have a win for the community and a win for the bank,” Pagliuca, a Bain Capital executive who co-owns the Boston Celtics [team stats], told the Herald yesterday. Pagliuca, Continue reading >>>