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787 ready for takeoff Boeing said it sees commercial flights of its grounded 787 jets resuming "within weeks" even though it has not pinpointed the cause of battery overheating. A Boeing exec said a new design for the lithium-ion battery system has...

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Turbo-boosted Beetle

Sporty, quick and fuel-efficient — that sums up the 2013 VW Beetle TDI. Based on the popular Golf architecture, the 2.0 liter, 140-horsepower Turbo Diesel offers pleasantly surprising performance. Driven through the upgraded DSG Automatic Transmission,...

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Always sunny in North Andover

This custom Royal Barry Wills Associates home in North Andover is an elongated Cape with three distinct wings that's positioned for maximum exposure to the sun. Designed in 1985 by Richard Wills, son of the late Melrose-born architect Royal Barry Wills,...

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Builders offer $250G to spruce up underpass

The timing couldn't have been worse: A murder victim is found sprawled in the shadows of a viaduct next to an upcoming South End apartment project — one day before a key neighborhood meeting about the development. Then again, the bad timing has turned...

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LA Times hack: Security breach or harmless prank?

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal prosecutors say Reuters' deputy social media editor conspired with a notorious hacker network to cause an online security breach that should be punished by decades in federal prison. Fervent online supporters of Matthew Keys...

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Judge rules secret FBI letters unconstitutional

SAN FRANCISCO — They're called national security letters and the FBI issues thousands of them a year to banks, phone companies and other businesses demanding customer information. They're sent without judicial review and recipients are barred from disclosing...

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Obama: US should fund research for cleaner cars

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama says the U.S. must shift cars and trucks off oil for good so the public can avoid spikes in gasoline prices. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama promotes a plan to direct $200 million a year into an energy...

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Number of pigs in and near Shanghai goes to 11,955

BEIJING — The number of dead pigs retrieved from waters in and near China's financial hub of Shanghai has reached nearly 12,000. The upstream city of Jiaxing — where small hog farms are prevalent — reported Friday night that it had recovered 3,601 dead...

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Other people who had contact sought in rabies case

Public and military health officials say they're trying to identify people in at least five states who had close contact with an organ donor who died of rabies or with the organ recipients because they might require treatment. A 20-year-old Air Force...

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Cypriots' president defends bailout deal

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus' president says a decision to force bank depositors to share the burden of a rescue package was done to save the country from financial ruin. Nicos Anastasiades said in a statement Saturday that Cyprus had little option but...

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