Denise Lavoie

October 01, 2008 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP-The family of a woman killed when a Big Dig tunnel ceiling collapsed has settled a wrongful death lawsuit for more than $28 million, attorneys told The Associated Press.The settlement was announced Tuesday night by attorneys for the husband and three adult children of Milena Del Valle, who was killed in July 2006 when part of a tunnel ceiling collapsed on her car.

By DENISE LAVOIE

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November 12, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - A Massachusetts man accused of plotting to kill Americans was portrayed by federal prosecutors Thursday as a jihadist who is too dangerous to be released on bail, but the man's lawyer said he was charged only after he refused to become an FBI informant against Muslims.Tarek Mehanna, 27, of Sudbury, was arrested a year ago and charged with lying to the FBI.

By DENISE LAVOIE

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July 16, 2007 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - After a tormented existence as a father, a husband, a Coast Guardsman and a construction worker, a 57-year-old suburban Boston man underwent a sex-change operation. Then she wrote off the $25,000 in medical expenses on her taxes.But the IRS disallowed the deduction - ruling the procedure was cosmetic, not a medical necessity - in a potentially precedent-setting dispute now before the U.

By Denise Lavoie

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April 22, 2013 | Daily Report Online

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged by federal prosecutors in his hospital room Monday with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction—a crime that carries a possible death sentence.

By DENISE LAVOIE and STEVE PEOPLES

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January 13, 2012 | Daily Report Online

Arline MacCormack first heard about DES from her mother when she was 17.Three decades later, MacCormack believes that the drug her mother took to prevent miscarriages caused her to develop breast cancer at age 44.MacCormack, of Newton, Mass., is one of 53 women from around the country who are suing drug companies that made and promoted DES for millions of pregnant women from about 1938 to the early 1970s.

By Denise Lavoie

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June 26, 2007 | Daily Report Online

By Denise Lavoie

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October 26, 2012 | Daily Report Online

In newly unsealed testimony related to Staples founder Tom Stemberg's divorce, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says he was initially skeptical of the idea for Staples, the office supply chain he lauds as a business success story that he helped create.

By Denise Lavoie and Stephen Braun

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May 29, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - Prosecutors and defense lawyers offered similar portraits of the man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller as his kidnapping trial opened Thursday: a German-born man who has spent decades making up fantastic lies about himself.The two sides also agreed that he kidnapped his 7-year-old daughter during a supervised visit in Boston last summer.

By DENISE LAVOIE

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March 31, 2009 | Daily Report Online

BOSTON AP - Barack Obama's Kenyan aunt lost her bid for asylum more than four years ago, and a judge ordered her deported. Instead, Zeituni Onyango stayed, living for years in public housing.Now, in a case that puts the president in a tough position both personally and politically, Onyango's request is being reconsidered under a little-used provision in U.

By DENISE LAVOIE

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May 28, 2010 | Daily Report Online

By DENISE LAVOIE

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