Street crews in the U.S. Northeast raced through the night into Friday to clear snow-clogged streets after a powerful blizzard and restore power to homes ahead of a brutal cold spell that has killed more than a dozen people. From Baltimore to Caribou, Maine, efforts were under way to clear roadways of ice and snow as wind chill temperatures were to plunge during the day, reaching -40 F (-40 C) […]
A Boston police officer involved in a shootout between law enforcement and the Boston bombers in 2013 was shot in the face on Friday. The officer, John Moynihan, helped save a transit officer in a gun battle between police and Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, days after the brothers set off two pressure-cooker bombs at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, The Boston Globe reported. Tamerlan was killed in […]
A time capsule hidden for more than a hundred years at one of Boston’s most popular tourist attractions was opened on Friday in Boston. According to the Bostonian Society, which maintains the 1713-built Old Massachusetts State House, the rectangular copper box containing a variety of artifacts from 1901 was sealed inside one of two iconic statues — a lion and a unicorn — that have been a familiar site atop […]
After last week’s Boston Marathon bombings, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva phoned her son Tamerlan in Massachusetts to make sure he was safe. “Mama, why are you worrying?” Tamerlan replied from Boston, laughing. Days later, it was the son who phoned his mother. The two, in recent years, had shared a powerful transformation to a more intense brand of Islam. “The police, they have started shooting at us, they are chasing us,” Mrs. […]
As the world hunted him, the younger brother suspected in the Boston Marathon bombings acted like any other college sophomore. Dzhokar Tsarnaev, 19, was on the campus of University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth every day after the attack until late Thursday, a university official told CNN. Tsarnaev attended classes and dorm parties while the rest of Boston came to a tense standstill. A student at the school told The Boston Globe that […]
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The Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured alive Friday after a standoff in boat in a Watertown backyard, police said. Police converged on a home at 67 Franklin Street and surrounded a boat in the driveway where 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was hiding. This came after a tip from a resident that she had seen blood on the boat and in the grass and noticed a ladder. Earlier, officials revealed that Dzhokhar […]
Two men suspected in the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people this week terrorized the area overnight. One is dead, but the other is on the loose, police say, and he’s armed and dangerous. Police pursued two men early Friday who shot a police officer to death, stole a vehicle and threw explosives at law officers pursuing them. Authorities believe they are the same two men sought in the […]
As the investigation into who was behind the Boston bombings goes on, Muslim communities are braced for a backlash should the perpetrator share their faith. The day after the Boston Marathon bombings, Yusef was treated differently. The 10-year-old went to his Ohio-area school and was surprised by a question from a classmate, according to his family. While the class was discussing the explosions, the classmate is said to have asked: […]
David Abel of the Boston Globe has spoken to the BBC about the scene he filmed at the finish line of the Boston marathon as two blasts erupted. He was filming runners as they finished the race when he heard the “boom” and “immediately knew it was an attack”. Two people were killed and at least 23 injured in two explosions at the finish line of the Boston […]
