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• Boston out of running for 2024 Summer Olympic Games bid
• Boston to drop bid to host 2024 Olympic Games: local media
• Colorado massacre trial jurors quizzed over Lafayette shooting
• Magazine cover features 35 of Bill Cosby's accusers
• DJ Henry was a black man killed by police. Should he be a cause?
• Boston mobster 'Whitey' Bulger's lawyers set to appeal conviction
• Offshore wind power gets foothold in U.S. with Rhode Island project
• Shanghai share index dives more than 8 percent
• Pedro Martinez steals the show on Hall of Fame induction day
• Bobbi Kristina Brown dies at 22, after five months in coma
• Some Guantanamo inmates would go to U.S. under new plan: Obama aide
• Firefighters make progress against Western U.S. wildfires
• U.S. candidate Huckabee: Obama marching Israelis to 'door of the oven'
• Missouri man kills father by lying on his head to 'prove a point'

Boston out of running for 2024 Summer Olympic Games bid Posted: 27 Jul 2015 12:35 PM PDT The city of Boston is no longer a candidate to host the 2024 Olympic Games.

Boston to drop bid to host 2024 Olympic Games: local media Posted: 27 Jul 2015 11:59 AM PDT By Scott Malone and Jacqueline Tempera BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston will back out of its effort to host the 2024 Olympic Games, local media reported on Monday, hours after the city's mayor, Marty Walsh, on Monday said he would not "commit" to a deal if doing so would leave city taxpayers vulnerable to the costs of hosting such a large-scale event. The idea of hosting the games in the city has been controversial, with opinion polls showing many residents of Boston and its surrounding communities fear the event would take a heavy toll on local budgets. The Boston Globe cited two officials close to the discussion as saying the bid would be dropped.

Colorado massacre trial jurors quizzed over Lafayette shooting Posted: 27 Jul 2015 10:38 AM PDT By Keith Coffman DENVER (Reuters) - The judge in the Colorado movie massacre trial asked jurors on Monday if they saw reports of last week's deadly shooting at a Louisiana cinema, and whether they could remain impartial as they decide the fate of Aurora gunman James Holmes. After questioning the jurors, Arapahoe County District Court Judge Carlos Samour decided not to dismiss any of them, saying they only had brief exposure to information about the case in Louisiana. Holmes has been found guilty of killing 12 people and wounding 70 during a midnight screening of a Batman film at a suburban Denver multiplex in 2012.

Magazine cover features 35 of Bill Cosby's accusers Posted: 27 Jul 2015 10:25 AM PDT New York Magazine has published an explosive cover story chronicling the stories of nearly three dozen women who have accused the 77-year-old comedian of rape or sexual assault over a four-decade span.

DJ Henry was a black man killed by police. Should he be a cause? Posted: 27 Jul 2015 06:54 AM PDT Dan and Angella Henry sit in the windowed kitchen of their stately home in Easton, Mass. — the trampoline and swimming pool out back, the trees and hummingbird feeders all around, the artfully arranged platter of sandwiches on the granite counter.

Boston mobster 'Whitey' Bulger's lawyers set to appeal conviction Posted: 27 Jul 2015 04:29 AM PDT Lawyers for former Boston mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger are set to challenge his 2013 racketeering conviction on Monday, contending a judge wrongly blocked them from arguing that a U.S. official had given him immunity for his crimes. Bulger, 85, was found guilty of committing or ordering 11 murders in the 1970s and 1980s in a trial that shone a light on his corrupt relationship with federal agents and prosecutors in Boston, who turned a blind eye to the Irish-American gangster's crimes in return for information they could use against the Italian-American Mafia. The former head of the "Winter Hill" gang currently is serving a sentence of two life terms plus five years for what U.S. District Judge Denise Casper called his "unfathomable" crimes.

Offshore wind power gets foothold in U.S. with Rhode Island project Posted: 27 Jul 2015 04:13 AM PDT By Richard Valdmanis NEW SHOREHAM, Rhode Island (Reuters) - Rhode Island's Deepwater Wind will start installing the foundations for North America's first offshore wind farm on Monday, a milestone the company says could pave the way for an industry long established in Europe but that is still struggling with opposition in the United States. The 30-megawatt wind farm, which will include five turbines located three miles (4.8 km) off the coast of the bucolic summer tourist destination of Block Island, will take more than a year to build and is scheduled to produce electricity for the tiny island community and the mainland by the end of next year. "Our belief is once Block Island is up and running, it will bring offshore wind from theory to reality in the United States and open up opportunities to build larger projects," said Jeffrey Grybowski, Deepwater Wind's CEO.

Shanghai share index dives more than 8 percent Posted: 27 Jul 2015 02:10 AM PDT SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Shanghai share index dived more than 8 percent Monday as Chinese stocks suffered a renewed sell-off despite government efforts to calm the market.

Pedro Martinez steals the show on Hall of Fame induction day Posted: 27 Jul 2015 12:48 AM PDT Former Boston Red Sox ace Pedro Martinez has developed quite the reputation from both his time in the game, and since he's been out of the game.

Bobbi Kristina Brown dies at 22, after five months in coma Posted: 26 Jul 2015 06:47 PM PDT

Some Guantanamo inmates would go to U.S. under new plan: Obama aide Posted: 26 Jul 2015 04:51 PM PDT A plan being drafted for closing the Guantanamo military jail will call for the transfer to U.S. prisons of possibly dozens of inmates deemed too dangerous to release, President Barack Obama's counter terrorism adviser said, setting up a fight with congressional opponents. Outlining the White House proposal that will soon be sent to Congress, Lisa Monaco, one of Obama's top national security aides, told the Aspen Security Conference on Saturday that the United States would step up the transfers of 52 detainees cleared for resettlement in other countries. The plan calls for the rest of the inmates at the U.S. naval base in Cuba to be brought to the United States to "Supermax" or military prisons for trials or continued military detention, Monaco said.

Firefighters make progress against Western U.S. wildfires Posted: 26 Jul 2015 03:43 PM PDT Firefighters made progress Sunday against three wildfires burning in Montana and California, aided by cooler temperatures overnight. A blaze in the Sierra foothills near Lake Tahoe in California was burning rapidly toward the north despite calming overnight, and evacuation orders remained in place for several communities, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said. Investigators do not yet know the cause of the blaze, dubbed the Lowell Fire, which started Saturday and prompted evacuation orders for the communities of You Bet, Red Dog, Lowell Hill and Chalk Bluff, the agency said.

U.S. candidate Huckabee: Obama marching Israelis to 'door of the oven' Posted: 26 Jul 2015 02:53 PM PDT Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has denounced the deal reached by the United States and other world powers on Iran's nuclear program by saying President Barack Obama is marching Israelis "to the door of the oven," a reference to the Holocaust. The head of the Democratic National Committee on Sunday demanded an apology by Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor whose comments came in an interview with a conservative website on Saturday. "This president's foreign policy is the most feckless in American history," Huckabee told "Breitbart News Saturday." "It is so naive that he would trust the Iranians.

Missouri man kills father by lying on his head to 'prove a point' Posted: 26 Jul 2015 02:37 PM PDT Kyle Webb, 44, of Grandview, Missouri, is charged with killing Franklin Webb late Saturday night at a home they shared after the father complained about the way his son was cleaning up around a leaky pipe, according to a police report. Kyle Webb admitted the killing, telling police that he became angry at his father's complaints and attempted to scare him by acting as though he was going to hit him with an empty vodka bottle, according to the police report. Franklin Webb then tried to punch his son but fell back, hitting a kitchen chair before falling to the floor where the son jumped on top of him, the police report states.

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