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The competition's heating up on "The Voice" - the show's "Battle Rounds" begin Monday - and no one is hotter, at least in the minds of some female viewers, than James Massone. In his short time on the show, the 23-year-old aspiring singer from Wakefield has become something of a heartthrob. His Facebook fan page is crowded with comments like: "the day i meet James i will all of a sudden have ASTHMA! cause i won't be able to breathe!" and "u bring tears of happiness to my eyes. " Google him, and you'll even find a tumblr website called JamesMassoneWife.

WOBURN - Robert Gulla wanted Allison Myrick all to himself, and in a fit of jealous rage two years ago he attacked her with a kitchen knife in his basement, inflicting a slow and excruciating death on his former girl-friend, prosecutors said yesterday. "This was a death perpetuated with extreme atrocity and cruelty," said Lisa McGovern, assistant Middlesex prosecutor, during her opening statements Thursday in the first-degree murder trial. "She was alive when she was stabbed in the head, in the abdomen, in the neck," McGovern told Middlesex Superior Court jurors.

Police say a man returned to the car dealership where he bought his van and deliberately crashed into six other vehicles, causing about $20,000 in damage. David Cross, 42, of Salisbury, Mass., is facing six counts of criminal mischief. He has been released on personal recognizance. Police say Cross bought the van Monday from the Portsmouth Used Car Superstore. After a mechanic found it had a host of problems, Cross tried to return it Tuesday, but was spurned by the dealer. Cross told The Portsmouth Herald that the van was a lemon and that he was driven by anger.

Brett Lawrie called it an "unlucky bounce. " Major League Baseball is likely to call it a suspension. A furious Lawrie slammed his batting helmet to the ground after he took strike three and it struck plate umpire Bill Miller in the hip as the ninth inning turned nasty Tuesday night in Toronto's 4-3 loss to Tampa Bay. "That was not my intention at all," Lawrie said. "I've never, ever done anything to go at an umpire before in my life, and I didn't mean to tonight. I apologize for that.

By Natalie Feulner, Town Correspondent A Norfolk County district judge today found the three men charged in connection with a car chase and shooting in Milton on Jan. 12 "dangerous" as defined by the state's "Dangerousness Statute" and ordered them held without bail for 90 days. Roy Jaundoo, 35, of Roslindale, and Kevin Taylor, 22, of Dorchester, were charged with armed assault with the intent to murder, among other charges. Caiheem Kindell, 21, of Randolph was charged with carrying a firearm without a license or a Massachusetts firearms identification card.

Over the past few days, the Bruins' post-parade bar tab from Shrine at Foxwoods Casino has become all the rage at water coolers throughout New England. But if the photo of the receipt doesn't put into perspective just how much alcohol the team went through Saturday night, perhaps this will. (Courtesy of 16wins.com .) Click image for full-size. 

Bluegrass Rhonda Vincent Destination Life Rounder ESSENTIAL "Stop the World (and Let Me Off)" Bluegrass queen Alison Krauss has been off playing with Led Zeppelin's Robert Plant, so fans of the genre will hopefully lend a closer ear to Rhonda Vincent, who has long been overshadowed by her illustrious counterpart. Krauss is unparalleled for bluegrass finesse, but Vincent can belt her into the next county. This is the first album that Vincent has made with only her touring band, the Rage, and it's a beauty.

For the finest moments in this year’s free Shakespeare production on Boston Common, Steven Maler’s staging of “Othello’’ for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, look to the margins: the smaller roles in the shadow of the stars. Watch Cassio, Brabantio, Bianca, and see how a Shakespearean actor brings poetic specificity and emotional subtlety to each line. In the larger parts, instead of these delicate grays, you’ll mostly see just black and white. Perhaps that’s hard to avoid in “Othello,’’ and particularly in an “Othello’’ played outdoors to a huge crowd with, presumably, many...

MANSFIELD - It was an odd pairing from the outset, and Wednesday night at the Comcast Center in Mansfield the double bill of Jane's Addiction and Nine Inch Nails didn't really make any more sense. But it was certainly entertaining. Aside from a brief moment as peers in the alt-rock revolution - and costars of the first Lollapalooza tour - the trippy, recently reunited Cali rockers and Trent Reznor's more consistent and consistently engrossing rage machine don't share much musical ground.

Stephen King is constantly testing us. Will we read his experimental Web-only novel? How about his confusing gothic Western "Gunslinger" series? The book about cellphones turning people into zombies? Those unpolished novels he writes under a pseudonym, including the one about the fat guy who nearly starves to death after being cursed by angry gypsies? We will? Well then, how about the novel he wrote under a pseudonym 30 years ago and abandoned in a dark corner of the University of Maine's Fogler Library?

Spaniards angered by increasingly grim economic prospects and unemployment hitting one out of every four citizens protested in droves Saturday in the nation's largest cities, marking the one-year anniversary of a spontaneous movement that inspired similar anti-authority demonstrations across the planet. The country's Interior Ministry said 72,000 people marched against the government's tough austerity measures in Madrid, Barcelona and six other large cities — but protesters claimed the turnout was much higher.

Inside a hot, cramped room in the Somali capital, 10 sweating children sat on wooden desks, not unlike those found in schools. These boys, though, were not in class. They were staring at a small TV and tightly gripping video-game controllers. Video games are the new rage in Somalia, a first-world entertainment option for teenage boys that wasn't permitted when ultraconservative al-Shabab militants controlled the capital. The insurgents — who were pushed out of Mogadishu last year by African Union and Somali troops — banned recreational pleasures...

Re "End the war on sun" by Jennifer Graham (Op-ed, April 21): The war on sun — and tanning beds in particular — has just begun. At least I hope so. A study published this year in the Journal of Clinical Oncology concluded that tanning bed use increases the incidence of cancer. Looking at 73,494 nurses from 1989 to 2009, researchers said, "Our data provide evidence for a dose-response relationship between tanning bed use and the risk of skin cancers, especially [basal cell carcinoma]

Florida coach Kevin Dineen was fretting on the bench as the Panthers were trying to protect a two-goal lead, a mere minute away from taking a 3-2 lead over New Jersey in an Eastern Conference first-round playoff matchup. At that moment, Dineen wasn't only worried about the outcome. No, he was also fixated on the toy plastic rat sitting on the ice. The "Rat Trick" — an odd South Florida hockey tradition — is going strong once again. It dates back in Florida to the 1995-96 season, when fan favorite Scott Mellanby used his stick to exterminate one of the critters in the...

OneUnited chief executive Kevin Cohee ignored urgent overtures from US senators, city officials, and the governor to renegotiate loans with one of Boston's most prominent black churches. He snubbed ministers and declined to take six phone calls from Harvard law professor and Obama friend Charles Ogletree, who had offered to mediate. And now it has come to this: Charles Street African Methodist Episcopal Church, perhaps the largest and most important OneUnited customer in Boston, has filed for bankruptcy protection because the bank has refused to refinance...

PITTSBURGH - The silence is almost as frightening as the anger. Because with the anger, with the yelling, comes the certainty that he cares, that Kansas State coach Frank Martin wants his charges to get better, to succeed, to become the basketball players and men he believes they can be. The silence? They're not quite sure what that means. "When he's on you, you know he cares," junior guard Rodney McGruder said. And he's on them quite a bit. As Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said on Friday, "I wouldn't want to have him mad at me. " But at the same time, Boeheim, whose...

T he despot in "The Dictator" is a tall, fit, flamboyantly bearded goofball — Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen) — who lords over a fictitious little North African country called Wadiya. Aladeen's misdeeds are denounced internationally — he's ordered the murder of thousands and is months away from achieving weapons-grade uranium, which, he winkingly announces, will be only for peaceful purposes. These early scenes have an easy whimsy. Cohen turns the character into a conceited ham with a taste for showmanship and a disdain for the competition.

LOS ANGELES — A sharp black suit is timeless, yet a decade has passed since Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones last wore theirs in "Men in Black II. " Despite the box office success of that film and its 1997 predecessor, the franchise had gone sufficiently cold that "Men in Black 3" only got the green light after audience research affirmed an abiding interest in it, said director Barry Sonnenfeld. "They also wanted to know what attracted people to the franchise," Sonnenfeld noted at a recent press day for the film at a Beverly Hills hotel.

Authorities in Peru's capital say a fire has raged through two adjoining poor neighborhoods, destroying 555 wooden houses and leaving 1,634 people homeless, but causing no deaths or injuries. Lima fire department spokesman Lewis Mejia says Saturday's fire burned for more than four hours before being brought under control. He says investigators are trying to determine what started the blaze and have not yet calculated the value of lost homes and possessions. Civil defense official Jose Magallanes says flames spread quickly because the two districts on Lima's northern outskirts are...

The competition's heating up on "The Voice" - the show's "Battle Rounds" begin Monday - and no one is hotter, at least in the minds of some female viewers, than James Massone. In his short time on the show, the 23-year-old aspiring singer from Wakefield has become something of a heartthrob. His Facebook fan page is crowded with comments like: "the day i meet James i will all of a sudden have ASTHMA! cause i won't be able to breathe!" and "u bring tears of happiness to my eyes. " Google him, and you'll even find a tumblr website called JamesMassoneWife.