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BOSTON (AP) — The two-time Boston Marathon champion turned onto Boylston Street with a sliver of a lead, leaning in front of two others with the finish line in sight. But one of them was Lawrence Cherono, the fastest man in the field. And he needed every bit of his ...
... lethal injection, some survivors told reporters they didn't consider his apology sincere. Lynn Julian suffered a traumatic brain injury and hearing loss after the bombing, and Henry Borgard still struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder. LYNN JULIAN, Bombing Survivor: He threw in an apology to the survivors that seemed ...
... JUDY WOODRUFF: The Boston Marathon bomber was sentenced to death today; 21-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted by a federal jury last month of the April 2013 bombings that killed three bystanders near the finish line of the annual race. Tsarnaev and his older brother, Tamerlan, later killed ...
... Associated Press reported that the case will likely go through years of appeals. On April 15, 2013, twin bombings at the finish line of the Boston Marathon claimed three lives and wounded more than 260 people. Follow our live blog below: [View the story "Verdict reached in Marathon bombing trial ...
Nearly two years since the attack on the Boston Marathon, the trial for suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev got underway Wednesday in a federal courtroom in Boston. Federal prosecutor William Weinreb says that both Tsarnaev and his brother, Tamerlan who dies in a gun battle days after the bombing, were terrorists ...
... public schools have closed eight times, forcing the city to cancel upcoming school holidays and possibly one school vacation week. And the trial of accused marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been also been delayed. Even the wheels of justice turn slower in the snow. Then there's the very ...
... Please join us in a moment of silence. JUDY WOODRUFF: The morning began with a moment of silence at the starting line before the 118th Boston Marathon officially got under way. Then the mood quickly shifted to celebration and resilience, amid extremely tight security along the 26.2-mile route ...
... a more thorough FBI investigation. The Russians told U.S. officials that they secretly recorded a telephone conversation in 2011 in which one of the Boston bombing suspects vaguely discussed jihad with his mother. In another conversation, the mother of now-dead bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was recorded talking to ...
NewsHour science correspondent Miles O'Brien visits the nation's most active explosives testing facility in New Mexico to learn more about what makes a pressure cooker bomb -- like those used at the Boston Marathon -- tick. Investigators often use the center to test theories and find new ways to defend ...
... home. So, we're ready for it to be busy again. FEMALE: Get back to normal? MAN: Exactly. JUDY WOODRUFF: At the same time, the Boston Public Health Commission upped the number of people injured in the marathon bombing from 180 to 264. The new total takes into account individuals ...
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