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Katherine Russell, right, wife of Boston Marathon bomber suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, leaves the law office of DeLuca and Weizenbaum with Amato DeLuca, left, Monday, April 29, 2013, in Providence, R.I. (AP Photo/Stew Milne)

3 more suspects in custody in Boston bombings

Bridget Murphy, Denise Lavoie The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 1:33am

BOSTON -- Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of removing a backpack containing hollowed-out fireworks from Tsarnaev's dorm room three days after the attack to keep him from getting into trouble.

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Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is taken by ambulance to a hospital after a Friday night shoothout. On Saturday, April 20, 2013, he remained hospitalized in serious condition under heavy guard. (The Associated Press)

Boston bomb suspect hospitalized under heavy guard

Bridget Murphy, Katie Zezima The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, April 20, 2013 - 11:31pm

BOSTON — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev lay hospitalized in serious condition under heavy guard Saturday — apparently in no shape to be interrogated — as investigators tried to establish the motive for the deadly attack and the scope of the plot.

People across the Boston area breathed easier the morning after Tsarnaev, 19, was pulled, wounded and bloody, from a tarp-covered boat in a Watertown backyard. The capture came at the end of a tense day that began with his 26-year-old brother, Tamerlan, dying in a gunbattle with police.

There was no immediate word on when Tsarnaev might be charged and what those charges would be. The twin bombings killed three people and wounded more than 180.

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A mourner places a note with flowers at a police barricade near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Tuesday. The bombs, which killed three people and wounded more than 170 Monday, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings, officials say. (WINSLOW TOWNSON/The Associated Press)

Family, friends remember victims of Boston Marathon bombings

Bridget Murphy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 17, 2013 - 12:36am

BOSTON — Third-grader Martin Richard had just gotten ice cream and was near the Boston Marathon finish line, eagerly watching for friends to run by. Krystle Campbell was enjoying the race with her best friend, hoping to get a photo of the other woman’s boyfriend after he conquered the last mile.

Then the unthinkable struck. The spirited 8-year-old, pictured on Facebook in his classroom holding a sign that read “No more hurting people,” was dead, along with the outgoing 29-year-old woman and a graduate student from China — victims of twin bombs that turned a scene of celebration into chaos.

More than 170 others suffered injuries that included severed limbs, shrapnel wounds, broken bones and head trauma.

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This July 2011 handout photograph provided Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 by the Brigham and Women's Hospital shows face transplant patient Carmen Blandin Tarleton, of Thetford, Vt., before her surgery, at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. Tarleton underwent the face transplant surgery earlier in February. The 44-year-old Tarleton,of Thetford, Vt., was attacked by her former husband in 2007. He doused her with industrial strength lye. She suffered chemical burns over 80 percent of her body. The mother of two wrote a book about her experience that describes her recovery. (AP Photo/Brigham and Women's Hospital)

Lye attack victim gets new face

Bridget Murphy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 5:43pm

BOSTON — Loved ones knew it was her at the hospital when they saw her teeth.

Carmen Blandin Tarleton’s face was unrecognizable after the lye attack, burned away in the frenzy of an estranged husband’s rage.

Nearly six years later, the Vermont nurse is celebrating a gift that has given her a new image following a full facial transplant this month.

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Former Ogden man has no animosity for gunman who killed daughter

Bridget Murphy The Associated Press

Last updated Saturday, December 15, 2012 - 7:46pm

NEWTOWN, Conn. -- Fighting back tears and struggling to catch his breath, the father of a 6-year-old gunned down in the school shooting in Connecticut told the world Saturday about a little girl who loved to draw and was always smiling, and he also reserved surprising words of sympathy for the gunman.

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Michael Richard Smith lights a cigarette while speaking with members of the media on a wharf in Boston Harbor, in Boston, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. The 49-year-old Maine native said Tuesday that he’s been paddling the waters of metro Boston since at least late summer with all of his possessions aboard a 14-foot, 40-year-old aluminum canoe that he patches with duct tape when necessary. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Man living on canoe in Boston Harbor

Bridget Murphy The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, December 5, 2012 - 10:46am

BOSTON — They say no man is an island, but Michael Richard Smith has been creating his own floating homes in Boston Harbor.

The Coast Guard and Boston police are keeping an eye on the unconventional camper who has been tying his canoe to small offshore docks in the city’s inner harbor and pitching his tent to sleep at night.

The 49-year-old Maine native said Tuesday he’s been paddling the waters of metro Boston since October with all his possessions aboard a 14-foot, 40-year-old aluminum canoe he patches with duct tape when necessary.

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People hold portraits of victims of the terrorist bombing attack against the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) institute that killed 85 people and injured 300, during the commemoration of its 18th anniversary, in Buenos Aires. (AFP)

Teens who lost kin to terror unite at camp

Bridget Murphy The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, July 19, 2012 - 9:49am

NEWBURY, Mass. — On a windowsill at a Massachusetts boarding school, a white candle burned in memory of a man who died half a world away in Argentina.

The man’s daughter, Astrid Malamud, was a toddler when it happened.

On Wednesday, 18 years later, Malamud, who barely remembers her father’s face, was far from home as she marked the anniversary of his death in their homeland’s bloodiest-ever terrorist attack. But the 20-year-old Argentine university student was still close to people who understood her loss.

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