Runners who did not finish Boston Marathon invited to 2014 race
BOSTON (WITI) -- The Boston Athletic Association has just announced that runners who were unable to complete the 2013 Boston Marathon as a result of the double-bombing that left three spectators dead, will be invited to participate in the 2014 race.More than 5000 official starters were affected on Monday, April 15 at the 117th Boston Marathon when the race was stopped at 2:50 p.m. ET.
Boston fire chief gets vote of 'no confidence' in handling of bombings
(CNN) -- Thirteen Boston deputy fire chiefs have signed a letter of "no confidence" in Fire Chief Steve Abraira regarding his handling of the Boston Marathon bombings, according to the letter, which CNN independently obtained from a deputy chief who signed it but requested anonymity.The deputy chiefs wrote of their displeasure to Boston Mayor Thomas Menino on April 26, according to the letter."You can unequivocally consider this letter a vote of no confidence in Chief Abraira," the deputy chiefs wrote in the letter.
Feds search Boston bombing suspect's apartment
(CNN) -- Federal authorities were at the apartment of deceased bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev on Sunday, executing a search warrant, an FBI spokeswoman said.Amanda Cox said, "There is court-authorized law enforcement activity" at the home in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that Tsarnaev shared with his wife and young daughter.Workers in white hazmat suits were at the apartment, CNN affiliate WCVB reported.Cox said the search stopped for the day in the early afternoon.
Family wants second autopsy of Boston bombing suspect
(CNN) -- For nearly two weeks, Tamerlan Tsarnaev's body lay unclaimed at the Boston medical examiner's office.
Bombing suspect died of gunshot wounds and blunt trauma
(CNN) -- The death certificate for Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who died April 19th after a shootout with police, says he died of "gunshot wounds of torso and extremities" and "blunt trauma to head and torso," according to Peter Stefan, the owner of the funeral parlor that currently holds Tsarnaev's body.The body is at the Graham, Putnam & Mahoney Funeral Home where services are being planned, the funeral home said Friday, May 3rd.
Official: July Fourth celebration Boston bombers' original target
(CNN) -- It could have been July Fourth.
Boston officer shares experience with law enforcement leaders
MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- More than 200 police chiefs have come to Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel.
Official: Boston attack originally planned for July 4th
BOSTON (CNN) -- Suspected bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev told investigators that the Boston Marathon was chosen as a target only a day or two before the event, a U.S. law enforcement official with first-hand knowledge of the investigation told CNN on Thursday.
Who are Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos?
(CNN) -- The number of people potentially embroiled in the Boston Marathon bombings case grew Wednesday to include friends of surviving suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.Not much is known yet about the three 19-year-old men -- Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos.But here is what CNN has learned so far.All started at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth in 2011, along with Tsarnaev.Each is accused of removing items from Tsarnaev's dorm room after the April 15 attack, which killed three people and wounded more than 260.Azamat TazhayakovTazhayakov was already in federal custody before Wednesday on immigration charges.
Official: Body of suspected Boston bomber claimed
(CNN) -- The body of Boston bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was claimed Thursday afternoon, and will be picked up by a funeral home, according to Terrel Harris, spokesman for the Massachusetts Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.Harris declined to release details as to who claimed the body or which funeral home was picking it up.Tsarnaev's cause of death will not be released until the death certificate is filed with the Boston city clerk, he said.
Three additional suspects detained in Boston bombings
BOSTON (CNN) -- Authorities said Wednesday that three additional suspects have been arrested in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings.
Bomb suspect's buddies covered for him, feds say
(CNN) -- Three friends of Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been jailed on charges they tried to throw investigators off Tsarnaev's trail, federal prosecutors announced Wednesday.Two of them, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, were already in federal custody on immigration charges, their lawyers told CNN.
Discussion under way on bombing suspect avoiding death penalty
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Some very preliminary talks have been under way "for the past few days" to potentially allow Boston bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to resume providing investigators with information about the attacks in exchange for having the death penalty taken off the table, two government sources say.The sources said such initial communications between opposing sides on a range of procedural and other issues are standard procedure.Communications are in the very early stages, and not a sign lawyers for either side are ready to make a deal, said one source, who did not want to be identified because of the sensitive nature of the private discussions.
Blast probe finds female DNA on bomb fragment, sources say
(CNN) -- Investigators have found traces of a woman's DNA on a fragment of one of the pressure cooker bombs used in the Boston Marathon bombings, law enforcement sources told CNN.But, they cautioned, that doesn't necessarily mean a woman might have conspired with brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who authorities say were behind the April 15 attack that killed three and injured more than 260.
FBI did its job in Tsarnaev probe, President Obama says
(CNN) -- Federal intelligence officials are looking at whether more could have been done to prevent the Boston Marathon attacks, President Barack Obama said Tuesday, though he added that he's not aware of any missteps."Based on what I can see so far, the FBI performed its duties.
Boston bombings victims face lifetime of medical bills
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- More than $30 million has been donated for victims of the Boston Marathon bombing.
Boston bombings overshadow Mass. Senate election
(CNN) -- Fifteen days after the Boston Marathon bombings, Massachusetts voters head to the polls Tuesday to select Democratic and Republican nominees in a special U.S. Senate election that's been almost completely overshadowed by the terror attacks.Even before the bombings, Massachusetts voters weren't paying that much attention to the contest to fill the remaining year and a half of the term of longtime Democratic Sen.
FBI has interviewed 'Misha' in Boston bombing probe
(CNN) -- The FBI has interviewed "Misha," an elusive figure whose name has surfaced in the Boston bombing investigation, a U.S. government official told CNN on Monday.Investigators spoke with the man in Rhode Island, the source said, after reports surfaced suggesting that members of the suspected bombers' family blame a "Misha" for radicalizing alleged bombing mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev.The man, whose real name is Mikhail Allakhverdov, denies ever encouraging a violent take on Islam and says he was not Tamerlan's teacher, according to a New York Review of Books writer who says he interviewed Misha."He began telling me he cooperated with the FBI" and had handed over his computer and cell phone, reporter Christian Caryl told CNN on Monday.Allakhverdov insisted he had "nothing to do with radicalization," Caryl said.CNN has made repeated efforts to speak with Allakhverdov, but has so far been unable.A lawyer who stepped out of the West Warwick, Rhode Island, apartment listed for Mikhail Allakhverdov told CNN he represents the parents of someone who lives there, adding, "We call him Michael."The parents have answered all questions the authorities have asked of them, attorney Richard Nicholson said.The parents are nervous because of the media focus on them, he said, adding that the mother has a heart condition.Misha's family 'friendly and welcoming'Caryl said that when he showed up at Misha's home, he took the family by surprise but managed to spend some time with him."I wasn't his teacher.
From dorm to prison cell: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's new digs
(CNN) -- Less than two weeks after he partied with classmates in a college dorm, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev now lives in drastically different surroundings.The 19-year-old Boston Marathon bombing suspect is locked inside a 10-by-10-foot cell with a steel door, a slot for food and an observation window, a prison spokesman said Sunday.Tsarnaev is able to speak and has been interacting with staff at the Federal Medical Center Devens, spokesman John Colautti said.Medical professionals at the prison medical facility, which currently houses 1,044 inmates, are making regular rounds to check on Tsarnaev, Colautti said, and Tsarnaev has spoken with staff there about managing his health.The spokesman said he could not comment on whether Tsarnaev was speaking with investigators.He referred questions on Tsarnaev's medical condition to the FBI, saying the facility does not assign medical condition rankings like civilian hospitals.Tsarnaev is in an area of the facility where there's extra security, he said.On Friday, authorities said Tsarnaev had been transferred from Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center to the prison facility, which is about 40 miles west of the city.Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction for his alleged role in the April 15 bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260 near the marathon's finish line.Tsarnaev was captured April 19 after a nearly 24-hour manhunt.
Official: Russia heard Boston suspects' mother 'discussing jihad'
(CNN) -- Russia intercepted a communication between the mother of the accused Boston Marathon bombers and someone who may have been one of her sons "discussing jihad" in 2011, according to a U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation.This source described the conversation as vague.The Russians turned over the intercept to the FBI in the past few days, the official said.This source was not aware of a reason for the delay and did not offer an opinion about whether it would have given the FBI enough reason to justify a closer look at Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the oldest of the two brothers suspected of killing three people near the finish of the marathon on April 15.