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Photo: Sign of service shutdown at Amtrak station in Providence due to search
By News staff The Providence Journal/ Frieda Squires The sign at the Amtrak station in Providence reflects delays Friday morning as service between Providence and Boston is suspended as authorities...
View ArticleUpdate: 1 of 2 Mass. bomb suspects dead; suburbs shut down
By Maria ArmentalBy Eileen Sullivan, Meghan Barr and Katie Zezima WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- The two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing killed an MIT police officer and hurled explosives at police...
View ArticlePublic transport frozen in NE during Boston manhunt
By Thomas J. MorganNEW YORK (AP) - Transportation to and from the Boston area is virtually shut down Friday morning, with the exception of airplanes, which continue to take off and land at Logan...
View ArticleRussian newspaper reports apparent details of suspects' background
By G. Wayne MillerThe English-language Moscow Times is reporting apparent details of the lives of the two suspects in the Boston Marathon Bombing, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tamerlan died...
View ArticleRI State Police sending units to aid in Boston investigation
By Maria ArmentalPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The Rhode Island State Police SWAT team, its K-9 unit and state fire marshall's personnel are heading to Boston to assist in the investigation, said Col Steven...
View ArticleTwo Warwick police will join state bomb squad
By Barbara PolichettiWARWICK, R.I. -- Warwick police are sending two bomb experts to work with the Rhode Island Bomb Squad as it responds to requests for assistance from Massachusetts. "I don't know...
View ArticleCar thought to have been used by Boston terror suspect found, unoccupied
By Thomas J. MorganPROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A car believed to have been driven by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev has been found, unoccupied, according to the Boston Police. Rhode...
View ArticleDozens of police at Providence Amtrak, as passengers wait
By News staffBy Bruce Landis Journal Staff Writer PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- About two dozen Providence and Amtrak officers, including K-9 units and SWAT members, were patrolling Providence's Amtrak station...
View ArticleUncle urges bombing suspect to surrender
By News staffMONTGOMERY VILLAGE, Md. -- Boston bombing suspect's uncle tells his nephew, Dzhozkar Tsarnaev: 'Turn yourself in, and ask forgiveness' from the victims, the Associated Press reports.
View ArticleTrains stopped in Norwalk and Darien Conn. amid search for Boston Marathon...
By Maria ArmentalNORWALK, Conn. -- Trains in Norwalk and Darien, Conn., were searched Friday morning following reports that one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects may be on board, the Associated...
View ArticleThe stories of 2 brothers suspected in bombing
By Maria ArmentalBy Jeff Donn and Jocelyn Noveck AP National Writers BOSTON (AP) -- Tamerlan Tsarnaev practiced martial arts and boxing, even aspiring to fight on the U.S. Olympic team. Dzhozkar...
View ArticleRed Sox game on hold, Bruins cancel morning skate
By Maria ArmentalBy Howard Ulman AP Sports Writer BOSTON (AP) -- Boston Red Sox players and other team employees have been told to stay home until a decision is made on whether Friday night's game will...
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Tsarnaev was UMass Dartmouth student; bomb squad called, campus evacuated
By Maria Armental NORTH DARTMOUTH, Mass. -- UMass-Dartmouth is being evacuated amid reports that a suspect wanted in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing was a student there. Fire alarms went...
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Update: Explosions heard after shots fired in area combed for bombing suspect
By News staff AP Photo / Matt Rourke Police officers guard the entrance to Franklin Street in Watertown where there is an active crime scene search for suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings Friday....
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Boston Police: We've got the suspect in custody
By News staff AP Photo / Craig Ruttle A police officer gives a thumbs up to another in Watertown, Mass. Friday, after the manhunt for the second of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing was...
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Boston officials express relief at end of ordeal
By Bryan Rourke AP Photo / Charles Krupa Police SWAT team member smile as they leave the scene of the arrest of a suspect of the Boston Marathon bombings in Watertown, Mass., Friday. More photos....
View ArticlePolice: Boston bomb suspect in serious condition
By News staffWATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- Police say the 19-year-old suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings exchanged gunfire with law enforcement for an hour while holed up in a boat before being...
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Video: President Obama commends end of Boston manhunt
By Bryan Rourke AP Photo / Charles Dharapak President Barack Obama speaks in the Brady Press Briefing at the White House in Washington, Friday, about an hour after the suspect in the Boston Marathon...
View ArticleVideo: 'We do more than just bury the trash in the ground'
By Daryl Ann West Providence Journal video by Sandor Bodo The Rhode Island Resource Recovery Corporation in Johnston receives recyclables from all over Rhode Island. Trucks roll up and dump, conveyor...
View ArticleBoston Marathon bombing suspect captured after extraordinary dragnet
By Tim BarmannEILEEN SULLIVAN,Associated Press JAY LINDSAY,Associated Press WATERTOWN, Mass. (AP) -- Lifting days of anxiety for a city and a nation on edge, police captured the surviving Boston...
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