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A handful of local fire departments and one agency in Rhode Island will receive $654,160 worth of federal fire safety grants to help upgrade equipment and train firefighters, officials announced Wednesday.
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By Lindsay Lorenz |
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Three college students have been arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings, reported The Boston Globe, citing a law enforcement official familiar with the case.
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By PBN Staff
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Amgen Inc.’s Neulasta and Neupogen and a similar blood-boosting drug from Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. may help people survive after a nuclear attack, U.S. regulators said.
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By Anna Edney |
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The surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect gained more than 1,500 supporters in a campaign proclaiming his innocence on VKontakte, Russia’s most popular social network.
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By Brad Cook |
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has communicated to investigators that he and his older brother alone were responsible for the Boston Marathon bombings and motivated by extremist Islam, according to a U.S. official briefed on the initial interrogation.
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By Phil Mattingly, David McLaughlin and Janelle Lawrence |
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A wounded 19-year-old man was charged by the United States with the bombing of the Boston Marathon, which killed three people, injured more than 170 and set off a four-day manhunt across the metropolitan area while triggering an international investigation.
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By Janelle Lawrence, David McLaughlin and Phil Mattingly |
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A wounded 19-year-old man was charged by the U.S. in connection with the bombing of the Boston Marathon, which turned the race into a murderous tableau, killing three people and injuring more than 170 in a bombing that triggered a four-day manhunt and shut down the city.
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By Janelle Lawrence, David McLaughlin and Phil Mattingly |
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Police locked down the Boston area and searched house-to-house for a suspect in the marathon bombing after a second suspect, his older brother, was killed in an overnight gun battle.
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By Phil Mattingly, Annie Linskey and Mike Dorning |
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(Updated, 10:50 a.m.) Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, the 19-year-old suspect wanted in conjunction with the Boston Marathon, is a registered student at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, which is currently undergoing a “controlled evacuation.”
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By PBN Staff
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Minutes before the bombs blew up in Boston, Jeff Bauman looked into the eyes of the man who tried to kill him.
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By Phil Mattingly, Annie Linskey and Brian K. Sullivan |
