By KRISTEN WYATTAssociated PressDENVERGunfire erupted at a Denver pot celebration Saturday, injuring two people and scattering a crowd of thousands at a downtown park after they had just marked the first 4/20 counterculture holiday since the state legalized marijuana. The
(AP) NEW BEDFORD, Mass.Two foreign nationals have been arrested on immigration violations in the Massachusetts town where police say the surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect may have once lived. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Saturday that Homeland Security Investigations agents had
By MARILYNN MARCHIONEAP Chief Medical WriterBOSTONA doctor involved in treating the Boston Marathon bombing suspect who died in a gunbattle with police says he had injuries head to toe and all limbs intact when he arrived at the hospital. Dr.
According to reports, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev attended the Islamic Society of Boston mosque in Cambridge, MA. The Islamic Society of Boston’s website states the mosque’s sister organization is the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center. They are both subordinate to the
(AP) Red Sox, Bruins back after bombing, manhuntBy JIMMY GOLENAP Sports WriterBOSTON Bomb-sniffing dogs and military in camouflage fatigues joined the police patrolling Fenway Park on Saturday, when the Red Sox dressed in a specially designed uniform for their first
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the brothers who are suspected to have bombed the Boston Marathon, were on a “jihad mission” motivated by radical Islam. Graham also claimed Dzhokhar, who was captured alive on Friday, should
(AP) – It was a powerful moment on the White House lawn when thousands of guests, the loved ones of slain crime victims among them, crowded in as President Bill Clinton signed a sweeping crime bill that was six years
(AFP) – Syria’s main opposition National Coalition said on Saturday that Russia was “out of step” with history for backing President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and was isolating itself on the international scene. “Russia is keeping up a foreign policy that
(AP) – Iraqis braved the fear of violence on Saturday to vote in the first election since the U.S. military withdrawal, though delayed voting in some parts of the country and an apparently lackluster turnout elsewhere has cast doubt about
(AP) Czechs: we’re not ChechensPRAGUEA number of comments by Americans on social media mistaking the Czech Republic for the country of origin of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects_ ethnic Chechen brothers _ prompted the Czech ambassador to the United States
(AP) Column: Time for sports to help us heal againBy PAUL NEWBERRYAP National WriterIn so many ways, sports can bring out the worst in us. The corruption. The greed. The destructive belief that winning isn’t just the only thing, but
(AP) – Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen advanced during fierce battles with rebels on Saturday capturing at least one village in a strategic area in Homs province near the Lebanese border, activists and state media in Damascus reported. The
(AP) – A powerful earthquake struck the steep hills of China’s southwestern Sichuan province on Saturday, leaving at least 156 people dead and more than 5,500 injured, nearly five years after a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region.
(AP) Red Sox and Bruins ready to resume play SaturdayBOSTONThe Red Sox and Bruins were ready to return to action after a daylong, successful manhunt for a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings brought the city, and major sports along
TOKMOK, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) – One trail in the search for clues about why two ethnic Chechen brothers may have carried out the Boston Marathon bombings leads to a sleepy town in Kyrgyzstan where former neighbors recall a quiet family that
(AP) FDIC closes 2 banks in Florida, 1 in KentuckyWASHINGTONRegulators on Friday closed two small banks in Florida and one in Kentucky, bringing the total number of U.S. bank closures to eight for this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
(AP) 5 things to watch in the NBA’s first roundBy TIM REYNOLDSAP Basketball WriterFive things to watch in the first round of the NBA playoffs, which begin Saturday: GAME 3 IN BOSTON: April 26, 8 p.m., Knicks at Celtics. You
(AP) G-20 officials decry lack of global growthBy MARTIN CRUTSINGER and HARRY DUNPHYAssociated PressWASHINGTONWorld finance leaders say they are determined to attack a sluggish global economy in which growth is too weak and unemployment too high. Their problem is arriving
(AP) – A Communist Party official says that earthquake that hit China’s Sichuan provinces left at least 32 people dead and injured more than 600. Xu Mengjia, party secretary of Ya’an city, which administers the area where the quake hit,
Late Friday, the FBI finally admitted that it had interviewed Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older Boston Marathon bombing suspect who was killed by police early Friday morning. The FBI reversed itself after the Tsarnaevs’ mother, Zubeidat, told Russia Today that her
According to Chris Barry, a sophomore at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and friend of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said that Tsarnaev “didn’t seem like a dangerous person at all … He was a pothead, a normal
By LYNN ELBERAP Television WriterLOS ANGELESNBC said Friday that it’s pulling an episode of its serial killer drama “Hannibal” out of sensitivity to recent violence, including the Boston bombings. The episode that was to air next week features a character,
On Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Jason Reyes reported a wide disparity between the number of people known dead in West, Texas, and the number who remain missing. While only twelve deaths were confirmed by Reyes in the
Harrison Ford went ballistic on a man in a Chewbacca suit on Jimmy Kimmel Live Wednesday night, a comedy bit that quickly went viral. The actor, out promoting the true baseball story 42, also flashed some animosity toward two real
TV Newser rounds up the evolving coverage plans of the Boston Manhunt by the major broadcast and cable networks. A police source told NBC News that the manhunt could drag well into the weekend. If that proves to be the
