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Services Today For Boston Victims

Source: Yamiche Alcindor and Doug Stanglin / USA Today BOSTON — At 2:50 p.m., the city of Boston will begin on Monday the painful process of emerging from a week of tragedy by falling silent to honor the victims of Boston Marathon bombings and its aftermath. One minute later, bells will ring out to the mark [...]

Boston Marathon Bomb Suspect In Custody After Standoff

Source: CBS News WATERTOWN, MASS. – The second and last remaining suspect in the deadly Boston Marathon bombing was taken into custody alive in a Boston suburb Friday evening after an intense standoff, Boston police and city officials said.t Boston Mayor Thomas Menino said police had discovered that Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., [...]

THIS WEEK On Washington Watch: Boston Terror Attack; Gun Violence In The Black Community; The Need For Educational Reform And New Book, “The Wealth Choice”

BOSTON TERROR ATTACK AND GUN CONTROL ARE AMONG THE HEADLINING TOPICS ON APRIL 21 WASHINGTON WATCH WITH ROLAND MARTIN –Topics include: the recent terror attack at the Boston Marathon; gun violence in the black community; the need for educational reform and new book, “The Wealth Choice.”— Friday, April 19, 2013, Silver Spring, MD – Representative Eddie Bernice [...]

Televangelist Juanita Bynum Jailed In Dallas For Failure To Appear In Civil Proceeding

Source: Scott Goldstein / The Dallas Morning News Gospel performer and televangelist Juanita Bynum spent the night in the Lew Sterrett Justice Center after authorities arrested her on a warrant for her failure to appear in a Dallas civil proceeding against her, according to public records. The Georgia woman was booked in at the jail [...]

Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion Killed 13, Injured 200

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Watch More News Videos at ABC | Technology News | Celebrity News Source: Colleen Curry / ABC News At least 13 people, including firefighters and emergency medical workers, were killed and about 200 more injured in the massive explosion and fire at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, according to [...]

Boston Bombing Suspects’ Aunt To FBI: ‘Convince Me’ (VIDEO)

Unfortunately your browser does not support IFrames. Maret Tsarnaeva asks for more evidence about nephews’ suspected link to marathon bombing.

LIVE VIDEO: Updates On The Marathon Bombings

Live stream videos at Ustream Live video: Updates on the Marathon bombings

USA TODAY: Amateur Video Shows Apparent Watertown Police Shootout

Amateur video purports to show a police shootout during a manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

60 People Still Missing After Texas Blast Kills 12

Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Source: Marian Smith and Elizabeth Chuck / NBC News Sixty people are still unaccounted for after a fertilizer plant exploded earlier in the week, flattening part of a small Texas town and killing 12 people, officials said. “With a heavy heart I can [...]

Uncle: Boston Bombing Suspect ‘Turn Yourself In’ (VIDEO)

The uncle of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects urged one of his nephews to turn himself in Friday, saying he had brought shame to the family and the entire Chechen ethnicity. (April 19)