Friday night, less than a week after killing three people and injuring over 170 others in a terrorist bombing, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is the custody of FBI and Boston police officials.
Tsarnaev, 19, identified as “suspect two” in the photographs released by the FBI this week, was discovered hiding inside a boat in the backyard of a home in Watertown, Massachusetts. The homeowner had been in his backyard earlier in the day and saw nothing but as evening approached noticed something amiss about the boat just after the police order to stay inside had been lifted by Governor Deval Patrick. Continue reading →
West, Texas Mayor Tommy Muska said that 35 to 40 people are dead from the massive explosion that leveled a quarter of the town.
Muska said he arrived at the estimated death toll based on the number of people who have not been identified by local officials. Among the missing and believed dead are six firefighters and four emergency medical technicians. Continue reading →
A report at the Seismological Society of America’s annual meeting shows that the volcano under Yellowstone National Park is bigger and much better connected than previous scientific reports.
“The magma reservoir is at least 50 percent larger than previously imagined,” Jamie Farrell of the University of Utah stated. Continue reading →
As the Chinese government openly begins to speculate about the possibility of human-to-human transmission of the H7N9 bird flu strain, an international team of experts, including some from the World Health Organization, have been deployed to investigate the disease in the country. Continue reading →
A witness in the Philadelphia Abortion House of Horrors trial testified that she saw the chests of babies moving and heard them making noises before Dr. Kermit Gosnell killed them.
Kareema Cross, the final prosecution witness, testified that she personally saw 10 babies breathe before they were killed. She also said that she saw three babies “move their arms and legs” and heard a fourth baby give out a soft whine before Gosnell killed them. Each time, Gosnell told her that the babies were already dead despite the obvious signs of life. Continue reading →
Four men who plotted to blow up a British Army base by placing a bomb inside a toy car have been jailed after pleading guilty to the plot.
Zahid Iqbal, Mohammed Sharfaraz Ahmed, Umar Arshad and Syed Farhan Hussain all will be spending at least five years behind bars for their roles in the conspiracy. Iqbal and Ahmed were sentenced to 16 years, 11 in jail, after the judge called them a “continuing risk” to the public. Continue reading →
A week of earthquakes across Japan is heading into the weekend with a 7.0 magnitude quake.
The major quake, which fortunately did not spark a tsunami, comes two days after a 6.2 magnitude quake that struck about 110 miles south of Tokyo. Continue reading →
Police in Massachusetts and Connecticut are hunting for a green Honda and much of Boston remained on lockdown as the hunt for the second Boston Marathon bomber continued following a chaotic night of mayhem night that saw a police officer and one of the suspects killed. Continue reading →
The man identified in FBI photos as “suspect number one”, Tamerian Tsarnaev, is dead.
“Suspect Two”, Dzhokhar Tsarnavev, the brother of suspect one, is on the run and the police around Watertown, Massachusetts are going door-to-door to find him. Continue reading →
The FBI has released images of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing. The suspects are described as “armed and extremely dangerous.” The FBI warned citizens to not attempt to apprehend the suspects if they spot them but to immediately call law enforcement.
The FBI has video of the second suspect dropping a bag before the second bomb detonated and that the two men “appear to be associated.” Continue reading →
