Canadian, US Authorities Thwart Alleged Terror Plot
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Canadian and United States authorities say they have thwarted a major terror attack plot that involved a passenger train. Royal Canadian Mounted Police say the attack planned...
View ArticleOfficials: Tamerlan Tsarnaev in Federal Database Since 2011
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — The name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect was included in a federal government travel-screening database in 2011 after the FBI investigated the man at Russia’s...
View ArticleMore Details Sought On Mute Boston Bomb Suspect
BOSTON (AP) — The 19-year-old charged with the Boston Marathon bombing, his throat injured by a gunshot wound, wrote down answers to the questions of investigators about his motives and connections to...
View ArticleBoston Bombing Could Prompt US, Russia Cooperation
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Boston Marathon bombings could provide an opportunity for the U.S. and Russia to find some common ground for cooperation as authorities investigate the two ethnic Chechens accused...
View ArticleFalk: Boston Marathon Victims ‘Have To Die’ Because Of American-Israeli...
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) - An expert with the United Nations’ Human Rights council said that Bostonians who were injured or killed in the Boston Marathon bombing were deserving of their collective fate....
View ArticleOfficials: Marathon Bombs Triggered By Remote
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say the Boston Marathon explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 260 were triggered by a remote-controlled detonator. Two officials on Wednesday said the...
View ArticleBoston Bomb Investigation Extends To Russia
WASHINGTON (AP) — New information emerged Wednesday from U.S. officials that the name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects had been added to a U.S. government terrorist database long before...
View ArticleBomb Suspect Read Rights After 16 Hour Interrogation; Goes Silent
BOSTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sixteen hours after investigators began interrogating him, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings went silent: he’d just been read his constitutional rights. Dzhokhar...
View ArticleSequester Cuts To Force Marathon Bombing Suspect’s Lawyers To Take 3 Unpaid...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The lawyers defending Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are dealing with federal budget cuts that will force them to take three unpaid weeks off even as they prepare...
View ArticlePolice: Boston Bombing Suspects Planned to Attack New York
NEW YORK — The Boston Marathon bombers were headed for New York to blow up their remaining explosives in Times Square before they were intercepted by police in a blazing gunbattle, officials said...
View ArticleBoston Bomb Suspect Out Of Hospital, In Federal Medical Center
BOSTON (CBSDC/AP) — Surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in central...
View ArticleCeltics Ready For Emotional Return Home
BOSTON (CBS) – It’s been 16 days since the Boston Celtics played a game in front of their home crowd, and the city of Boston will never be the same. Tragedy hit Boston on Marathon Monday, followed by a...
View ArticleD.C. Flies Boston’s Flag Over City Hall
WASHINGTON — The District of Columbia is adopting Boston’s city flag this weekend as a symbol of solidarity. Mayor Vincent Gray announced Friday that Boston’s flag will be flying over the city’s Wilson...
View ArticleMother Of Bomb Suspects Insists Sons Are Innocent
BOSTON (AP) — The angry and grieving mother of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects insists that her sons are innocent and that she’s no terrorist. But Zubeidat Tsarnaeva is drawing increased attention...
View ArticleFBI Visits Home Of Wife Of Dead Bombing Suspect
NORTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) — FBI agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombings have visited the Rhode Island home of dead suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s (TAM’-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE’-ehvz) in-laws and...
View ArticleBoston Police Commissioner to Testify on Capitol Hill on Marathon Bombings
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — A House committee will hold a hearing next week on the bombing at the Boston Marathon that killed three and wounded more than 200 others. Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis is...
View ArticlePolice, Politicians Nationwide Push Surveillance Post-Boston
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police and politicians across the U.S. are pointing to the example of surveillance video that was used to help identify the Boston Marathon bombing suspects as a reason to get more...
View ArticleGOP Senator Wants Obama to Explain Visa Mishap in Boston Bomb Case
WASHINGTON — A top Republican senator asked the Obama administration Thursday to explain how a student from Kazakhstan charged with trying to help get rid of evidence for one of the Boston Marathon...
View ArticleHomeland Security Orders Border Agents to Verify All Int’l Student Visas...
WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department ordered its border agents “effective immediately” to verify that every international student who arrives in the U.S. has a valid student visa, according to...
View ArticleBoston Bomb Suspect Died Of Gunshots, Blunt Trauma
BOSTON (AP) — A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, his death certificate says. Worcester funeral home owner Peter Stefan has...
View ArticleSearch Don For Burial Spot For Bomb Suspect
BOSTON (AP) — Despite more than 100 offers, a Massachusetts funeral director is striking out in his search for a burial location for the body of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was killed in a...
View ArticleVt. Man Offers Grave For Deceased Boston Bomber
HARTFORD, Vt. (AP) — A retired Vermont teacher has offered a spot in his family’s Connecticut cemetery plot to the family of the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died last month following a shootout...
View ArticlePolice: Dead Boston Bombing Suspect Buried
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was secretly buried in an undisclosed location outside Worcester after a frustrating weeklong search for a community willing to take the...
View ArticleBoston Bomber’s Widow To Cooperate
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A new criminal defense lawyer for the widow of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev says his client will continue to cooperate with investigators but says he plans...
View ArticleChefs Cook, Raise Money For Boston Bombing Victims
BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing victims joined hundreds of first responders and well-wishers at Fenway Park as dozens of top chefs served fine food and drinks from concession stands in a project...
View ArticleMan Killed in FBI Shooting Has Ties to Boston Marathon Bombing
ORLANDO, Fla. (CBSDC/AP) — The FBI says a man being questioned by authorities in the Boston bombing probe was fatally shot when he initiated a violent confrontation. The shooting incident early...
View ArticlePair Running 450 Miles from Pentagon to Boston for Bombing Victims
ARLINGTON, Va. (CBSDC) — A pair of ultra runners are making their way from Arlington to Boston on foot to raise money for the families of the marathon bombing victims. Frank Fumich and Matt Nelson...
View ArticleBoston Marathon Victim, Md. Native to Return Home
COLUMBIA, Md. (CBSDC/AP) — The mother of two Boston Marathon bombing victims did not participate in a Columbia, Maryland race meant to raise money for her family this morning. Instead, Carol Downing is...
View ArticleReddit Bans Subreddit ‘Find Navy Yard Shooters’
WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – A subreddit dedicated to identifying the gunman in the Washington Navy Yard shooting was banned by the site shortly after it was created Monday. The subreddit “Find Navy Yard...
View ArticleVideo: 2013 in 6 Minutes 18 Seconds
LANHAM, Md. (CBSDC) — Condensing 365 days into six minutes and eighteen seconds is a daunting task. Yet, that’s exactly the feat accomplished by Jean-Louis Nguyen. Nguyen posted a video on YouTube...
View ArticleFeds Seek Death Penalty for Boston Marathon Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
BOSTON — Federal prosecutors on Thursday announced they will seek the death penalty against 20-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the Boston Marathon bombing, instantly raising the stakes in what could be...
View ArticleLawyers For Boston Marathon Suspect Due In Court
BOSTON — Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be in court this week for the first time since U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder authorized...
View ArticleAmerican Wins Boston Marathon For 1st Time In Decades
BOSTON — American Meb Keflezighi has won the Boston Marathon, a year after a bombing at the finish line left three dead and more than 260 people injured. Keflezighi is a former New York City Marathon...
View ArticleBoston Marathon Bombing Suspect Wants Trial Moved to D.C.
BOSTON — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev asked a judge on Tuesday to allow them to bolster their request to move his trial outside of Massachusetts. In a written motion,...
View ArticleBoston Marathon Bombing Trial Delayed, Won’t be Moved to D.C.
BOSTON — A judge granted a two-month trial delay on Wednesday for Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, but denied a defense request to move his trial from Boston. Judge George O’Toole...
View ArticleNo Plea Deal Likely In Boston Marathon Bombing Case
WASHINGTON (AP) — The focus of the Boston Marathon bombing trial figures to be as much on what punishment Dzhokhar Tsarnaev could face as on his responsibility for the attack. With testimony expected...
View ArticlePrince George’s County Exec. Running in Boston Marathon
LARGO, Md. (WNEW) — One of the top local leaders in the area is traveling 400 miles up I-95 to run 26.2 miles in Monday’s Boston Marathon. For Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker, this is a...
View ArticleMd. Athlete Wins Boston Marathon Women’s Wheelchair Race
BOSTON, Mass. (WNEW/AP) – Maryland native Tatyana McFadden has won her third straight women’s wheelchair race at the Boston Marathon. McFadden rolled down Boylston Street on Monday to finish in an...
View ArticlePrince George’s County Exec., Police Officials Run in Boston Marathon
WASHINGTON — Prince George’s County Executive Rushern Baker completed the Boston Marathon Monday — and reached his goal. Prince George’s County Police Sgt. Terrance Nelson and Cpl. Tony Grimes also ran...
View ArticleBiden to Attend Funeral of Officer Killed by Bombing Suspects
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden will travel to Cambridge, Mass., on Wednesday to attend the memorial service for the MIT police officer killed in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing....
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