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This panel of March 2013 file photos show Republican candidates for U.S. Senate, from left, Gabriel Gomez, Michael Sullivan, and Daniel WInslow, vying for their party's nomination in the special April 30, 2013 primary. (AP Photos)

Bombing shifts Mass. Senate race before primaries

Steve Peoples · April 28, 2013 4:00 am

Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a memorial service for slain Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus officer, Sean Collier, at MIT in Cambridge, Mass. Wednesday, April 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Jill Biden leaves shoes at marathon bomb memorial

Steve Peoples · April 24, 2013 4:00 am

Medford and Somerville police line the street outside St. Joseph's Church in Medford, Mass. Monday, April 22, 2013 for the funeral of Boston Marathon bomb victim Krystle Campbell, 29. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Boston Marathon bombing suspect is charged

Steve Peoples, Denise Lavoie · April 22, 2013 4:00 am

Mourners hug as they leave the funeral for Boston Marathon bomb victim Krystle Campbell, 29, at St. Joseph's Church in Medford, Mass. Monday, April 22, 2013. Hundreds of family and friends packed the church in Medford, Mass., for Campbell's funeral, while dozens more waited outside after being turned away. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)

Bombing suspect charged, could face death penalty

Steve Peoples, Denise Lavoie · April 22, 2013 4:00 am

Wearing his Boston Marathon runner's jacket, David Delmar, 28, second from left, a member of Trinity Episcopal Church in Boston, attends a service at Temple Israel, which allowed the Trinity congregation to hold their service, Sunday, April 21, 2013, in Boston. Trinity is within the blocked-off area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, where earlier in the week two bombs exploded. Delmar, who finished the marathon about 30 minutes before the explosions, was running his first marathon as part of charity to Trinity. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Police: Bombing suspects planned more attacks

allen-breed, Steve Peoples · April 21, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this April 12, 2012 file photo, Las Vegas Sands Chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson speaks at a news conference in Macau. Adelson topped the list of political campaign mega donors, giving more than $90 million to Republican super PACs in all. That included more than $15 million to the organization backing former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's presidential bid and another $30 million to Romney's super PAC. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung, File)

Spending mushrooms in new ‘political ecosystem’

Steve Peoples · April 6, 2013 4:00 am

Republican Sen. Rand Paul to speak in NH

Steve Peoples · April 3, 2013 9:40 pm

Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, center, seen with National Governors Association Chairman Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware, left, and Vice Chairman Gov. Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, speaks during the opening news conference of the NGA Winter Meeting in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013. The nation's governors say their states are threatened if the automatic, across-the-board budget cuts, known as the sequester, take effect March 1. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Governors: Looming cuts threaten economic gains

Steve Peoples, Ken Thomas · February 23, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - This Jan. 7, 2013 file photo shows former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel, president Barack Obama's choice for defense secretary, speaking in the East Room of the White House in Washington. Maine Sen. Angus King said Thursday that he sees no strong reason to oppose President Barack Obama's pick for secretary of defense. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Maine Sen. King: No strong reason to oppose Hagel

Steve Peoples · January 17, 2013 5:00 am

In this photo provided by the Office of the Governor of New Jersey, Gov. Chris Christie speaks at a news conference at New Jersey's State House Jan. 2, 2013, in Trenton, N.J. Christie, blasted his party's "toxic internal politics" after House Republicans initially declined to approve disaster relief for victims of Superstorm Sandy. He said it was "disgusting to watch" their actions and he faulted the GOP's most powerful elected official, House Speaker John Boehner. The Republican Party seems as divided and angry as ever. Infighting has penetrated the highest levels of the House GOP leadership. Long-standing geographic tensions have increased, pitting endangered Northeastern Republicans against their colleagues from other parts of the country. Enraged tea party leaders are threatening to knock off dozens of Republicans who supported a measure that raised taxes on the nation's highest earners. (AP Photo/New Jersey Governor's Office, Tim Larsen)

Republican Party seems as divided, angry as ever

Steve Peoples · January 5, 2013 5:00 am

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Hopes for avoiding the "fiscal cliff" that threatens the U.S. economy fell Friday after fighting among congressional Republicans cast doubt on whether any deal reached with President Barack Obama could win approval ahead of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts kick in Jan. 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Anti-tax conservatives say no to tax-increase deal

Steve Peoples · December 24, 2012 1:50 pm

Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio, speaks to reporters about the fiscal cliff negotiations at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012. Hopes for avoiding the "fiscal cliff" that threatens the U.S. economy fell Friday after fighting among congressional Republicans cast doubt on whether any deal reached with President Barack Obama could win approval ahead of automatic tax increases and deep spending cuts kick in Jan. 1. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Anti-tax conservatives say no to tax-increase deal

Steve Peoples · December 24, 2012 9:11 am