The Boston Marathon bombing story became inescapable, a real-life TV drama unfolding hourly with nonstop coverage on radio, cable television, social media and, in a sign of its power, even on network TV, which pre-empted hours of afternoon programming. Every hour, the story line became more dramatic: a shootout caught on video, a city shut down, a possible terrorist connection to Chechnya, a seemingly failed police search and a dramatic arrest. | 04/19/13 21:30:13 By - By Maria Recio
Friends say Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was a funny kid, an enthusiastic wrestler and a popular graduate of Cambridge’s prestigious Cambridge Rindge & Latin School. His elder brother, Tamerlan, took a break from classes at a community college to pursue the sport of boxing – and said he’d represent the U.S. over Russia in the Olympics if his native Chechnya didn’t yet have its independence. | 04/19/13 21:36:57 By - By Lesley Clark
As marijuana users prepared for their unofficial national holiday on Saturday, Denver got a head start, with local promoters trying to showcase Colorado as a state that welcomes pot-smoking tourists after voters legalized the drug in November. | 04/19/13 17:38:53 By - By Rob Hotakainen
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Sens. Mike Crapo and Jim Risch helped carry the day for opponents of tougher gun laws during a two-hour string of votes late Wednesday. | 04/19/13 13:15:10 By - Dan Popkey
About 160 patients were either treated and released or admitted, a few of whom remain in intensive care. | 04/18/13 20:55:21 By - Patrick M. Walker
Many U.S. senators are known for talking a lot whenever the opportunity arises, but North Carolina Sens. Kay Hagan and Richard Burr seemed to use the fewest possible words to explain why they voted as they did this week on a handful of gun control proposals. | 04/18/13 19:36:00 By - By Renee Schoof
Federal officials on Thursday unveiled photographs of two people they consider suspects in connection with Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon and asked the public for help identifying them. | 04/18/13 19:16:23 By - By Lesley Clark and Chris Adams
George Washingtons personal copy of the Constitution, Bill of Rights and the first laws passed by Congress will be on display starting next week at the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum in Abilene, Kansas. | 04/18/13 15:03:40 By - Dion Lefler
Investigators plugged away Wednesday in the search for the Boston Marathon bomber, or bombers, as they picked through videotape and explosive fragments with an expertise honed on foreign wars and terror attacks. | 04/17/13 20:04:41 By - By Lesley Clark, Michael Doyle and Matthew Schofield
A new memorial began to emerge Wednesday in a city already steeped in history – a tribute to the victims the Boston Marathon bombings. | 04/17/13 20:39:41 By - By Lesley Clark
Americans in coastal areas, particularly on the East and Gulf coasts, will confront challenging questions in the coming years as they determine how to protect millions of people in the face of rising sea levels and more intense storms. | 04/17/13 16:35:46 By - By Erika Bolstad
The budget at Keesler Air Force Base has been cut 20 percent by sequestration, grounding planes and reducing training, Brig. Gen. Brad Spacy said Tuesday. | 04/17/13 12:10:59 By - Mary Perez
The two explosions that killed three people and wounded more than 170 Monday in Boston were dramatic, the deadliest bombing in the United States since April 19, 1995, when a truck loaded with fertilizer blew up outside the federal building in Oklahoma City, killing 168. But the method of attack wasnt particularly surprising to anti-terrorism experts: a homemade bomb that officials refer to as an IED, or improvised explosive device. | 04/16/13 19:26:23 By - By Matthew Schofield and Erika Bolstad
Mickey Pescatore says she should’ve been working Tuesday. But some things were more important. | 04/16/13 19:20:14 By - By Lesley Clark
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