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Meet An Elite: Lelisa Desisa

Now that it's cool to care about the Boston Marathon again, Fittish would like to familiarize you with the runners at the front of the pack. This morning's elite: Lelisa Desisa. ...

Here's The Guy Charged With Leaving Bags At Boston Marathon Finish Line

This is the 25-year-old Boston man who allegedly left two backpacks at the Boston Marathon finish line Tuesday night and got himself arrested for his troubles. His name is Kevin Edson, though he's now apparently going by Kayvon. He is, or was, a student at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. ...

Police Close Boston Marathon Finish Line, Detonate Unattended Backpacks

Police evacuated the Boston Marathon finish line earlier tonight after they discovered two unattended backpacks at the site of last year's bombings. Both bags were detonated by a bomb squad. One of the bags contained a rice cooker filled with confetti; the other contained photo equipment....

[A Boston Police officer stands guard at the finish line of the Boston Marathon prior to the flag raising ceremony commemorating the one-year anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings. Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images.]...

Coverage Of Somber Boston Marathon Tribute Marred By Photog's "Fuck!"

CNN, which can't seem to get anything right these days, ruined another bit of coverage today when what appeared to be a moment of silence during Boston's marathon bombing memorial tribute today was interrupted by what sounds like a cursing cameraman....

Meet An Elite: Gebre Gebremariam

Now that it's cool to care about the Boston Marathon again, Fittish would like to familiarize you with the runners at the front of the pack. Today's elite: Gebre Gebremariam. ...

Get To Know The Boston Marathon Field

Now that it's cool to care about the Boston Marathon again, Fittish will spend the next seven days familiarizing you with the elite field. Today's entry: Dennis Kimetto. ...

<em>Globe</em> Report: Boston Marathon Bomber Said He Heard Voices

The Boston Globe dropped a hefty feature, in a creative but readable format, on Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev over the weekend. It focuses on the two brothers, the Tsarnaev family, and how their lives deteriorated before the bombing. The motive behind the bombing isn't truly...

Victims Of The Boston Marathon Bombing Begin Divvying $61 Million

America, on occasion you really take care of your own. After the Boston Marathon bombing, people and companies pulled together more than $60 million that's now being disbursed to 232 people who were hurt or killed in the attack and its aftermath. Two double amputees and the families of four people w...

<em>Chicago Tribune</em> Takes Back Its Post-Bombing Tribute To Boston

Remember the morning after the Boston Marathon bombings, when the Chicago Tribune dedicated the front page of its sports section to the city of Boston and its sports teams? That was a very sweet thing for the Tribune to do! But now, with the Bruins and Blackhawks facing each other in the Stanley Cup...

Watch Boston Marathon Bombing Heroes Throw Out Tonight's First Pitch

Marathon Bombing survivors Jeff Bauman and Carlos Arredondo were on the mound tonight to throw out the first pitches for the Red Sox game against the Philadelphia Phillies....

With Cambridge city officials refusing to allow Tamerlan Tsarnaev to be buried in the town's cemetery, his family is having a hard time finding a place to lay the bombing suspect to rest....

Boston Bruins Honor Marathon Bombing Victim Before Game 2

Last you saw Jeff Bauman, he was mangled, with a complexion reminiscent of Beetlejuice. Pushing Bauman's stretcher was a man in a cowboy hat who had shredded a sweater to make tourniquets for what remained of Bauman's legs....

Three More Arrested In Connection With Boston Marathon Bombings

Federal authorities have reportedly arrested three college students in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings. A source told the Globe that the three new suspects "helped" Dzhokhar Tsarnaev after the attack, and NBC's Pete Williams is reporting that they were his roommates at UMass Dartmouth. ...

The Boston Bombing Suspects' Final Day On The Run: A Reconstruction

One week ago, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev killed a police officer, engaged in a massive shootout that wounded another and left Tamerlan dead, and set off a manhunt that put Boston on lockdown. Many of the initial reports were a confused jumble, and we're only now able to recreate the Tsarnaevs' m...

Here's the May cover of Boston, made entirely of 2013 Marathon runners' shoes. I spy toe shoes....

Report: Boston Bombing Suspect Was A 9/11 Truther

The AP just published a story that sheds some light on how the elder Boston Marathon bombing suspect, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, reportedly came to adopt a very radical worldview in the years leading up to he and his brother Dzhokahr's attack on the Boston Marathon....

The First Photos Of The Boston Bombing Suspects' Shootout With Police

Andrew Kitzenberg lives on Laurel Street, in Watertown, Mass. On Friday morning, just before 1 a.m., he heard a series of pops from outside his window. The Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamarlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were engaging in a wild shootout with police. Kitzenberg's Twitter account was...

Rob Gronkowski posed for this picture while visiting some of the Boston Marathon bombing victims in the hospital today. If that arm injury continues to be a bother, Gronk could probably start a second career as a human comfort dog....

The New York Times spoke to 19 people who were near the Boston Marathon finish line at the time of the explosions. It's an extraordinary and sad collection. From Debi Caprio, a 50-year-old nurse from Rockland, Mass.: "I said out loud, 'This is how my life is going to end.'" Check it out....