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... at 2:33 p.m. ET when the Boston Police Department, the ultimate source in this case, reported that no suspect had yet been arrested. View the Storify timeline below on the conflicting breaking news reports. [View the story "Timeline of Conflicting Reports on Boston Marathon Bombing Suspect" on Storify]
Despite media outlets' conflicting reports, the FBI insisted no arrests had been made in connection to the Boston Marathon bombings. Jeffrey Brown talks with WBUR's David Boeri, who reported that senior judges and top officials were directed to prepare the courthouse for an impending arrest until threats shut down ...
FBI photo of a pressure cooker lid found near Boston bomb site. Three days after the Boston Marathon bombing, investigators are still trying to unravel how a pair of blasts killed three and injured at least 170. On Tuesday, President Barack Obama called it an "act of terror," but said ...
Investigators study the scene on Boylston Street at the site of the second bomb explosion. Photo by John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. A day after two blasts rocked the Boston Marathon finish line, investigators are scrambling to unearth clues on the devices and who planted them. Some ...
Hari Sreenivasan talks to Dr. George Velmahos, chief of trauma services at Massachusetts General Hospital, about the emergency medicine administered to victims of the Boston Marathon bombing, how his staff had prepared for such a disaster and an overview of the various serious injuries sustained.
... 29 p.m.: The Associated Press has identified 29-year-old Krystle Campbell of Medford, Mass., as one of the three people killed in the bombing at the Boston Marathon. William Campbell told the AP that his daughter was a "very caring, very loving person, and was daddy's little ...
... a withering cross-examination from attorney Mark Bankston, Jones acknowledged his history of raising conspiracy claims regarding other mass tragedies, from the Oklahoma City and Boston Marathon bombings to the mass shootings in Las Vegas and Parkland, Florida. Bankston then went after Jones’ credibility, showing an Infowars video clip from ...
BOSTON — Boston marked the fifth anniversary of the deadly Boston Marathon bombings Sunday with solemn remembrances and charitable acts. Democratic Mayor Marty Walsh and Republican Gov. Charlie Baker laid wreaths early in the morning at the spots along downtown Boylston Street where two bombs killed three spectators and maimed more ...
... victim with severe wounds can bleed to death within five minutes, before emergency responders arrive to help. Tourniquets were heralded in the response to the Boston Marathon bombings. But King and other researchers found that of 27 tourniquets put into use, all were makeshift devices, not commercially made ones, and ...
Two years since the Boston Marathon bombings and just weeks since Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted of the 2013 bombings, more than 30,000 participants kicked off the 119th Boston Marathon Monday morning. Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia finished first in the men's division with a time of 2:09:17 ...
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