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The ashes of Richie Havens will be scattered across the site of the 1969 Woodstock Festival on the anniversary of the final day of the concert he opened with a nearly three-hour performance.

The mother of a terminally ill 2-year-old western Pennsylvania boy who served as his parents' best man at their wedding says he has died.

The Hartford Courant is reporting that a 49 year-old CT man, Robert Valentine, the uncle of Aaron Hernandez, was killed in a moped accident over the weekend.

On Thursday, August 1st, an off-duty police sergeant shot and killed 19-year-old Russell Rios in Conroe, Texas. The initial police report states that Rios was caught stealing iPhone cases from Walmart and then fled the scene to escape security guards.

Iraqi authorities say bomb and mortar attacks across the country have killed eight people, including a judge.

An American doctor says that modern medicine may soon have the capability to resurrect someone up to a full day after death. Dr. Sam Parina is a critical care physician who teaches at Stony Brook University School of Medicine in New York, and he says, "With today's medicine, we can bring people back to life up to one, maybe two hours, sometimes even longer, after their heart stopped beating a

Former Red Sox slugger George "Boomer" Scott is dead at the age of 69. He passed away in his native Mississippi. Scott spent nine of his 14 seasons with Boston over two different stints.

Kidd Kraddick, host of the popular, nationally-aired morning show Kidd Kraddick in the Morning, has died in New Orleans.

Eyewitness accounts suggest that the train that derailed in Spain last night was going too fast as it went around a turn underneath a road bridge. And those accounts are backed by security-camera footage of the derailment. The video shows the train carriages starting to buckle soon into the turn, with the first and second passenger cars leaving the tracks first...

The Bristol County District Attorney's Office is investigating the death of a New Bedford man after a brief stay in the Ash Street Jail. DA Spokesman Greg Milliote tells WBSM News 59-year-old Egidio Batista was placed in protective custody in the jail Saturday night at the request of his daughter because he was drunk...