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May 9, 2013
7:01 pm

Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev (photo credit: AP/The Lowell Sun, Julia Malakie)

Boston bomber buried in secret location

A ‘courageous and compassionate’ citizen steps forward to facilitate the burial outside Worcester, police say

By Jay Lindsay and Michelle R. Smith

April 20, 2013
6:42 pm

Officers wearing tactical gear arrive in Watertown, near Boston, on Friday (photo credit: AP/Julio Cortez)

Final shootout, then Boston bombing suspect caught

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s arrest Friday night sparks celebrations; investigation into Monday’s bombing ongoing

By Jay Lindsay and Eileen Sullivan

April 20, 2013
8:31 am

Taylor Richard, center, of Belmont, Mass., and Alyssa Kohler, 17, of Cambridge, Mass., wrap themselves in the American Flag in Watertown, Mass., Friday, April 19, 2013 after the arrest of the second bombing suspect, Dzhokbar Tsarnaev. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)

In suburban Boston, thanks and jubilation after capture

Celebratory bells ring from church tower after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in custody; fireworks in suburb where family of 8-year-old boy killed in bombings lives

By Jay Lindsay and Steve Peoples

April 19, 2013
4:15 am

Salah Eddin Barhoum in his apartment in Revere, Mass., with one of the trophies he won in an athletic competition, and the bag he was carrying on Monday near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, Thursday, April 18, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Rodrique Ngowi)

Moroccan immigrant horrified to be portrayed as bombing suspect

Teenager says he won’t feel safe until the actual bombers are caught

By Jay Lindsay

September 22, 2012
4:45 am

This Sept. 5, 2012 photo released by Harvard University shows a fourth century fragment of papyrus that divinity professor Karen L. King says is the only existing ancient text that quotes Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife (photo credit: AP Photo/Harvard University, Karen L. King)

Harvard says more research needed before publishing report on Jesus having wife

Mystery shrouds ownership of ancient papyrus fragment in which Jesus uses the words ‘my wife’; some believe document to be a forgery

By Jay Lindsay