Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, died after a shootout with police early Friday morning in Watertown, Mass.
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Mainers in Boston share ‘sense of fear’ in eerily quiet city
Like most in the city on Friday, Mainers who live in and around Boston wait indoors while law enforcement scours the city.
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Maine police monitoring Boston manhunt
A Maine State Police detective has been in Boston to assist the investigators looking for the bombing suspects
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Suspect brothers a study in contrasts
The older had become a more devout Muslim; the younger is recalled as friendly and down-to-earth.
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Boston travel: Trains, buses halted, planes flying
By Friday evening, authorities had lifted the stay-indoors warning for people in the Boston area, and the transit system started running again.
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Boston suspects’ father: ‘They were set up’
The father of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing describes his youngest son as smart, talented and accomplished.
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Timeline: the hunt for Boston’s bombing suspects
A chronology of events leading up to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s arrest on Friday evening.
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Watertown residents describe ‘war zone’
WATERTOWN, Mass. — Watertown residents say it was like being in a “war zone” when they were woken in the middle of the night during a shootout between police and the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Retired couple Albert and Anna Lanzo heard gunfire and a large boom that shook their house and lit up the […]
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Suspects’ homeland has seen two decades of brutal fighting
Family members say the Tsarnaev brothers are ethnic Chechens whose family moved to the U.S. a decade ago.
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Downeaster service disrupted due to Boston manhunt
The Downeaster is operating on schedule between Brunswick and Exeter, N.H., but the train is currently not entering Massachusetts.