Billions of gallons of raw sewage and contaminated stormwater surge every year into New England's waterways and streets, as a 40-year-old pledge to clean America’s waters remains unfulfilled.
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By Doug Struck and Kevin Sullivan, Published: April 19 E-mail the writer
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The Hub stopped Friday.The kinetic and salty city of Boston, which got its proud nickname from Oliver Wendell Holmes in the 19th century, came to a standstill Friday while an army of heavily armed police hunted for a skinny 19-year-old in a gray hoodie.
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The devastating impact of the explosions, on one of Boston’s most important days of civic celebration, spread almost instantly across the city and country.
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BOSTON — Two bombs exploded at the venerable Boston Marathon on Monday, killing two people, injuring about 100 others and rattling nerves around the nation, authorities said.
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