Resurgent Santorum takes Minnesota, Missouri

Rick Santorum catapulted back into the presidential limelight today, prevailing over his rivals in Missouri and Minnesota and running strongly against front-runner Mitt Romney in Colorado.

Colorado results

26% precincts reported
Rick Santorum
43.9%
1,891 votes
Mitt Romney
27.6%
1,187 votes
Newt Gingrich
15.5%
666 votes
Ron Paul
12.8%
552 votes
  • Write-In .1%
  • Michele Bachmann .1%
  • Rick Perry %
  • Jon Huntsman 0%

Minnesota results

74% precincts reported
Rick Santorum
44.8%
17,686 votes
Ron Paul
27.2%
10,733 votes
Mitt Romney
17.1%
6,755 votes
Newt Gingrich
10.6%
4,188 votes
  • Total Write-Ins .3%

Missouri results

100% precincts reported
Rick Santorum
55.2%
138,681 votes
Mitt Romney
25.3%
63,709 votes
Ron Paul
12.2%
30,584 votes
Uncommitted
3.9%
9,841 votes
  • Rick Perry 1%
  • Herman Cain .9%
  • Michele Bachmann .7%
  • Jon Huntsman .4%

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Boston to Philly airfares doubling

With Southwest Airlines discontinuing its Boston-Philadelphia route as of Feb. 11, the lowest roundtrip fare between the two cities is doubling to about $520.

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Analysis

Wes Welker could not come up with this pass late in the fourth quarter of Super Bowl XLVI.

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It would be foolish to paint Welker as some sort of goat for failing to corral a fourth-quarter pass in the Super Bowl. In fact, Tom Brady made the toss unnecessarily difficult.

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TELEVISION REVIEW

There’s something creepy lurking in ‘The River’

Whether or not viewers take themselves to “The River,’’ ABC and the creators deserve credit for one thing: There is nothing that looks like this show on television right now.

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