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EBay monitoring listings of Boston Marathon medals
EBay says it is monitoring listings to ensure nobody uses the auction website to profit from the Boston Marathon bombings. "Out of respect for ...
Friends of bombing suspect in immigration court
Lawyers for two men friendly with the Boston Marathon bombing suspect say their clients have been extensively interviewed by federal investigators.
Uncle: Family to claim Boston bomb suspect's body
Relatives of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing will claim his body now that his wife has agreed to release it, an uncle said as ...
Information sharing before bombings under review
President Barack Obama said Tuesday his counterterrorism bureaucracy "did what it was supposed to be doing" before the Boston Marathon bombing as his ...
Preakness beefs up security, bans backpacks
Backpacks and duffel bags will be prohibited at the Preakness this year, part of a new security policy at Pimlico Race Course influenced by the ...
Boston suspect's defense team gets major boost
The defense team representing the Boston Marathon bombing suspect got a major boost Monday with the addition of Judy Clarke, a San Diego lawyer who ...
Obama and Putin discuss security in phone call
President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin (POO'-tihn) have been discussing terrorism coordination in the wake of the Boston Marathon ...
Mother of bomb suspects insists sons are innocent
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 ...
Mother of bomb suspects found deeper spirituality
In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in ...
Lawmaker: FBI checking training angle in bombing
The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday that the FBI is investigating in the United States and overseas to determine whether ...
Russia caught bomb suspect on wiretap
Russian authorities secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his ...
Boston bomb suspect in small cell with steel door
The Boston Marathon bombing suspect is being held in a small cell with a steel door at a federal medical detention center about 40 miles outside the ...
Officials: No sign 'Misha' tied to Boston bombing
U.S. officials say investigators have found no evidence that a conservative Muslim friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev had any connection to the Boston ...
Heavy security on streets for Nashville marathon
With a SWAT team parked near the starting line, Scott Wietecha of Hendersonville, Tenn., won the St. Jude Country Music Marathon on Saturday after ...
New England keeps its stride after 2 tragedies
They are six small states, settled before the nation's birth, wedged between New York, Canada and the Atlantic Ocean: New England. The region is ...
Investigators push ahead in Boston bombing probe
With the Boston marathon bombing suspect in a prison hospital, investigators are pushing forward in the U.S. and abroad to piece together the myriad ...
Overseer of US victim funds says work wrenching
His work has immersed him in events that read like a roster of recent catastrophes, from 9/11 to the Gulf oil spill. Now, Kenneth Feinberg is adding ...
Boston bombing suspects' mom in terror database
U.S. intelligence agencies added the mother of the Boston bombing suspects to a government terrorism database 18 months before the bombings, two ...
Marathon deaths prompt review of security policy
Left unattended, no accessory looks as menacing these days as a backpack. At the airport. On the subway. At a sports event. And, as a result of the ...
Poor response to tip blamed on Cold War distrust
A former official of the Russian government is telling Congress that lingering, Cold War-era distrust may have made American officials less inclined ...
Boston Marathon bombing suspect out of hospital
The surviving Boston Marathon bombings suspect has been released from a civilian hospital and transferred to a federal medical detention center in ...
Tons of linemen drafted, but Te'o waits for Day 2
More than 2½ tons of linemen, five trades, one quarterback and no Manti Te'o. The first round of the NFL draft delivered an enormous portion of beef, ...
Bring on beef in draft, starting with OT Fisher
Short on glam, slim on glitter and no sign of Manti Te'o, the NFL draft was still a solid B-plus. As in Big, as in Brawn, as in Bulk, as in Beefy.
Boston victims face huge bills; donations pour in
Cost of amputating a leg? At least $20,000. Cost of an artificial leg? More than $50,000 for the most high-tech models. Cost of an amputee's rehab? ...