President Obama’s father once revealed a plan for his unborn son that might have changed the course of American political history.
A girl places a flower as survivors offer prayers to victims during a memorial service in the city of Ishinomaki, Miyagi prefecture, northeastern Japan, on June 18 the day that marked the 100th day since a devastating earthquake and tsunami struck the coast in eastern Japan on March 11. Click on the link, above right, for a report from the Christian Science Monitor on how the country's economic recovery has stalled.- Slain Wayland teen Lauren Astley concerned by boyfriend's phone calls, employer says (video) [Boston Herald]
- Rev. Peter-Michael Preble of Southbridge under fire for giving tornado relief funds to people not affected by storm [Telegram & Gazette]
- President's father reportedly once talked about putting Barack Obama up for adoption [Boston Globe]
- Japan's recovery from earthquake, tsunami stalls [Christian Science Monitor]
- Several school buses torched in Littleton (video) [WHDH-TV, Channel 7, Boston]
- New Haven police investigate alleged brutality after video surfaces (video) [Hartford Courant]
- Vermont church seeks to regroup after parish hall burns to ground following lightning lightning strike (video) [Burlington Free Press]
- GOP presidential hopeful Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota likes Lady Gaga [USA Today]
- Twitter posts tagged #westernma in Western Mass. [MassLive.com]
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