New England Sun-Times

How do you know your relationship is over? In a general sense, most of us can agree it's when the bad experiences with your significant other start to outweigh the good.   Still, there's often one single moment that signifies the end of a relationship -- whether or not we recognize it at the time. On Saturday, Redditors on the Ask Reddit board shared the moment they realized their relationship had run its course. Check out what they had to say below. 1. Your number one source of stress is your significant other. "Being with your S.O. should be something that takes away stress , but over the course of a year, my S.O. became my number one cause of stress." 2. You can't see yourself being with your Significant Other for the long haul. "We were at a wedding I was in, and multiple times this thought passed through my mind: 'This will never be us.' It wasn't even a question, it was a certainty. It was scary as hell. He noticed some...

By Amanda Hoover @amahoover A Red Sox fan who was hit in the head with a broken beat in June was helped from the stands at Fenway Park.  Last month, Red Sox fan Tonya Carpenter was taken from Fenway Park screaming and bleeding after shards of a broken bat flew into the stands and struck in her in the head. On Friday night, a foul ball entered the Boston crowd during a game against the New York Yankees, hitting a woman in the face. She was left with a bruise between her eyes and is still recovering. While fans at Fenway Park have had a bad month, they’re hardly alone. Now, an Oakland A’s ticket-holder has filed a class-action lawsuit against Major League Baseball for not doing enough to protect fans, The New York Times reports. The plaintiff, Gail Payne, says she doesn’t feel comfortable in her seats because they lack protective netting. The lawsuit would apply to season-ticket holders with seats in the unprotected areas along the first and third ba...

“You get the rifles. I’ll get the powder,” the man told an FBI witness, according to a criminal complaint. Alexander Ciccolo in 2012.   The ISIS-sympathizing son of a Boston Police captain was arrested on weapons charges on the Fourth of July after threatening to use pressure-cooker bombs and guns on an unidentified university, the FBI said in a complaint unsealed on Monday. Alexander Ciccolo, 23, is the son of Boston Police captain Robert Ciccolo, police confirmed. The Adams resident was arrested for taking possession of four firearms from a witness working with the  FBI, the complaint says. “What I am gonna do is prepare fire bombs. I’ll do that today. T[hey] are cheap and effective,” Ciccolo said in a July 2 instant message to the witness, according to the FBI. “You get the rifles. I’ll get the powder.” WalMart receipts show he purchased a pressure cooker on July 3 in North Adams, the complaint says. The firearms Ciccolo got from the FBI ...

  Writing a movie can be a long and arduous task. Sure, it can be hugely pleasurable and result in a vast financial reward, but sometimes, another film beats you to the punch and releases the exact same plot before you are able to release your movie. And it turns out, that was the case with We’re The Millers and Ted 2 , as the 2013 comedy basically told the same story that Seth MacFarlane had originally dreamed up for his sequel. Seth MacFarlane made this admission during a recent chat I had with him regarding Ted 2 , and the comedy’s co-writer and director confessed that their first plan for the sequel was much different to what it turned into. MacFarlane confessed: "The first draft was actually going to be John and Ted trucking a pot shipment across the country, but We’re The Millers came out while we were writing it, and it was the same story. So we had to scrap it." Seth MacFarlane went on to add that the eventual plot for Ted 2 "kind of emerged b...

Whole Foods CEO John Mackey, whose net worth exceeds $100 million, is a fervent proselytizer on behalf of “ conscious capitalism .” A self-described libertarian, Mackey believes the solution to all of the world’s problems is letting corporations run amok, without regulation. He believes this so fervently, in fact, he wrote an entire book extolling the magnanimous virtue of the free market. At the same time, while preaching the supposedly beneficent gospel of the “conscious capitalism,” Mackey’s company Whole Foods, which has a $13 billion and growing annual revenue , sells overpriced fish, milk, and gourmet cheeses cultivated by inmates in US prisons. The renowned “green capitalist” organic supermarket chain pays what are effectively indentured servants in the Colorado prison system a mere $1.50 per hour to farm organic tilapia . Colorado prisons already grow 1.2 million pounds of tilapia a year, and government officials and their corporate companions are chomping at t...

  The modern diabetes epidemic is caused, not by a virulent pathogen, but by the spread of an even stealthier invader: the Western lifestyle. As people around the world have begun to eat less healthily, lead more sedentary lives, and live to older ages, adult onset diabetes (type 2 diabetes) has become common in places where the disease was previously unknown. Between 1985 and 2002, the number of people with diabetes grew from 30 million to 217 million, and this figure is expected to exceed 366 million by 2030. But the epidemic has not been even-handed. Even accounting for differences in lifestyle, some populations have been hit particularly hard. Mexicans and Latin Americans, for example, have nearly twice the chance of developing diabetes that non-Hispanic white Americans do. New research addresses these disparities. Scientists announced that they'd discovered a gene that helps explain the difference in diabetes risk among many populations. In a strange twis...

  NEW YORK--A Panera Bread restaurant manager in Manhattan is out of a job after graphic video surfaced showing him punching a female employee and knocking her to the ground. In the video posted on YouTube, the woman throws a bag of chips onto the ground and screams before the manager hits her twice. According to the user who uploaded the video, the woman had been thrown out of the restaurant, but came back and that's when the punches were thrown. "You might wanna say she hit him first, but really he had full control over her the entire time, was throwing her around, I think she gets one slap in that was louder than it was painful," a witness told Gawker . Panera later issued a statement about the video: "Today there were reports of a physical altercation between two associates at our Park Avenue South Bakery-Caf. We have a zero tolerance policy for violence and worked swiftly with authorities to investigate. The associates who were determine...