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(911 calls at link) BEVERLY Ma.-- Hamilton Police Sgt. Kenneth Nagy shot Beverly Police Officer Jason Lantych because Nagy believed Lantych was having an affair with his wife, according to a summary of the investigation released today by the Essex County District Attorney’s Office. The report says Nagy texted Lantych early on the morning of the shooting and said, “Hey Jay ... thanks a lot buddy,” then called Lantych an expletive and texted, “See you soon my friend.” Nagy, described as “distraught” over the alleged affair, fired two shots through the open window of his SUV at Lantych after the...

The Mass is celebrated publicly about 176 times each week at Notre Dame when the University is in session, says Father Richard Warner, CSC, the director of campus ministry. Different Masses meet different spiritual needs. Congregants may pray together in English, Spanish or Latin and choose from a sampler box of musical styles and aesthetic surroundings. All of these Masses are celebrated according to the reformed Roman Missal of Pope Paul VI introduced in 1970. All except one, that is. At 8 a.m. on October 14, some 100 people gathered with Father Thomas Blantz, CSC, in the Saint Charles Borromeo...

Observations on Independence Day, 2004        Thomas Jefferson clung to life on July 3, 1826. Confined to his bed at Monticello, he fought death, wishing to prolong life by one day, so he could live to see the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.        Jefferson's physician and two grandsons kept an around-the-clock vigil on the dying 83-year-old former third president. ''Is it the fourth?'' Jefferson asked several times as he slipped in and out of consciousness.        At 9 p.m. on the evening of July 3, Jefferson refused his nightly medicine, saying, ''No, doctor, nothing more.''...