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Boston officials gathered at City Hall yesterday to consider whether the city should join Governor Deval Patrick’s efforts to scale back the use of expensive police details at road construction sites in Massachusetts.

A brush fire is burning in the hills above Santa Barbara and Montecito, forcing some evacuations in the Cold Springs area. Televised reports say the fire has burned 3 to 5 acres.

Firecrackers may have been the source of gunshot-like sounds that prompted a lockdown of a residence hall on Virginia Tech’s campus Thursday, authorities said.

Former University of Cincinnati players Trent Cole and Brent Celek are distinguishing themselves as Philadelphia Eagles.” Both of them have played well this year,” Eagles head coach Andy Reid said.

Goodspeed was a one-time ‘Idol’ contestant See photos of Paula Abdul through the years. Authorities have identified the woman found dead outside “American Idol” judge Paula Abdul’s house as a fan and one-time show contestant.

Google Flu Trends is based on the simple idea that people who are feeling sick are likely to turn to the Web for information, searching for phrases like “flu symptoms” or “muscle aches.”

- Stabilizing our financial system will require not only strengthening our financial institutions so they are able to lend to our communities, but also helping homeowners avoid preventable foreclosures.

”To all my fellow Vietnam veterans: Welcome home, brother.” VIETNAM VETERAN DAVID BOGLE, U.S. ARMY, 1ST BATTALION, 22ND INFANTRY REGIMENT, 4TH INFANTRY DIVISION.

San Diego-based Angels and Airwaves will engage with their fans for the first time in Singapore on December 7, and here is where their South East Asian adventure begins.

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