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By ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and JOHN RABY (Associated Press) Three men charged in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger have reached plea deals with prosecutors, according to court papers filed Monday. The plea deals were disclosed nearly six years after the 89-year-old gangster, who spent almost two decades on the lam, was beaten to death in his cell at a troubled West Virginia prison. Fotios “Freddy” Geas and Paul J.

Why so secret? Required for the first time to disclose more personal financial information under a new Florida ethics law, scores of mayors and commissioners have quit rather than reveal the details of their finances. It’s overreach, they say. Many are challenging the law in federal court. Delving into specifics of a person’s stock portfolios, personal debts, partnership income and the names of those who bought property is a bureaucratic form of TMI — too much information. Form 1 is a bare-bones statement of financial interests, yet hundreds of political appointees and government workers refuse to submit it, or don’t fill it out properly. If too much information is the grievance, what are we to make of local elected officials, board appointees and key government workers who for years flouted state law by failing to provide a financial equivalent of name, rank and serial number? The plain vanilla questions of Florida’s Form 1 apply to certain government employees and appointees.

Like the couple it’s about, “Slow” acknowledges and, to some degree, gives in to expectations set by a world overloaded with conformist-minded romcoms and conventional relationship blueprints. But it’s worth seeing. And for a weeklong run starting Friday at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago audiences can see for themselves. Simple, efficient set-up here, in Lithuanian writer-director Marija Kavtaradze’s second feature.

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By late spring, homebuying season is in full swing. And right when all the good listings start popping up, so does summer wanderlust — especially if you were cooped up all winter. House hunting can be exhausting, especially in today’s competitive market. So if you need a vacation, are you throwing away your shot at success? Karen Wilder, a real estate agent with Mott & Chace Sotheby’s International Realty in Charlestown, Rhode Island, doesn’t think so. “Sometimes, it can be the best thing for your search for you to just take a little time off,” she says. If you want to travel and house-hunt at the same time, you have to plan ahead and consider your short- and long-term goals.

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