
Boston suspect under scrutiny in unsolved killings
A year and a half before the Boston Marathon bombing, the man bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev called his best friend died in a grisly crime: He was ...
Father of man shot in Boston probe shares regrets
The father of a Chechen immigrant shot dead by U.S. law enforcement agents while being questioned about his ties to a Boston Marathon bombings suspect ...

Man shot to death while questioned in Boston probe
Authorities in the U.S. shot to death a Chechen immigrant who turned violent while being questioned about his ties to one of the Boston Marathon ...
Distance double champion Cheruiyot to miss worlds
Defending 5,000- and 10,000-meter world champion Vivian Cheruiyot will miss the world championships in Moscow because of pregnancy. The 29-year-old ...
British Athletics head coach exits after 7 months
Peter Eriksson is stepping down as head coach of British Athletics after just seven months in the role to return to Canada to be with his family.

Foot healed, Blanka Vlasic will return at NY meet
At the height of her success, high jumper Blanka Vlasic had to relearn how to leap. There was really no other choice for the 29-year-old Croatian.

British PM visits Boston to discuss marathon bombs
British Prime Minister David Cameron met with Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick on Monday to offer his condolences and discuss lessons that can be ...
Qatar's Kemboi wins Prague marathon
Nicholas Kemboi of Qatar won the Prague International Marathon on Sunday while Caroline Rotich of Kenya claimed the women's race. Kemboi pulled away ...

Legally blind vaulter makes 3 heights, no medal
A legally blind 15-year-old pole vaulter cleared three heights at the Texas state championship but failed to win a medal. Charlotte Brown of rural ...

Police: Dead Boston bombing suspect buried
The body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was entombed in an unknown gravesite Thursday after police said an anonymous person ...

Boston chief: Wasn't told FBI got Tsarnaev warning
The FBI did not initially share with Boston police the warnings it had received from Russia about one suspect in last month's marathon bombings, ...

Sister of boy killed in Boston bombing has surgery
The younger sister of the 8-year-old boy killed in the Boston Marathon bombings has undergone what her family calls a "milestone" 11th operation on ...
Boston cop: Never saw Russia warning about suspect
The Boston police commissioner says three city police officers were working with the U.S. terrorism task force but did not know about vague warnings ...

AP source: Bach to announce IOC presidential bid
Germany's Thomas Bach is set to become the first member to declare he is a candidate to succeed Jacques Rogge as president of the International ...

Mayor doesn't want bomb suspect buried in Boston
An aide to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino says the mayor does not want marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev buried in Boston and calls the decision ...

US funeral director considers burial offers
A funeral director said Monday he has received burial offers from out-of-state cemeteries for the body of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was ...

Teen immigrant angst _ a factor in bombings?
Anna Tabakh didn't know a word of English. At age 5, a stranger in a strange land, she was en route with her parents from the Soviet Union to a new ...

Man accused of lying after bombings seeks release
Lawyers for a teenager charged with lying to investigators after the Boston Marathon bombings are asking a federal judge to release him from jail, ...

Boston bomb suspect died of gunshots, blunt trauma
A suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died from gunshot wounds and blunt trauma to his head and torso, a funeral director said Friday.
US orders new visa checks for arriving students
The U.S. Homeland Security Department ordered border agents to verify that every international student who arrives in the country has a valid student ...
IAAF says 2 Turkish athletes charged with doping
Olympic 1,500-meter champion Asli Cakir Alptekin of Turkey was charged with doping Friday and could be stripped of her gold medal. Another female ...
Authorities comb woods near bomb suspect's college
Federal, state and local authorities are searching the woods near the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth campus as part of their investigation of ...

For 3, bomb suspect's friendship leads to charges
The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect exchanged text messages with a friend who had become suspicious after seeing what looked like a familiar ...

Official: Arrested student entered US without visa
One of three college students arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings case was allowed to return to the United States from Kazakhstan in ...

FBI: 3 removed backpack from Boston suspect's room
Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of trying to protect him by going into ...