Female DNA has been found on at least on at least one of the bombs used in the Boston Marathon terrorist attacks, but have yet to determine whose it is or whether it indicates if a woman helped the Tsarnaevs execute their deadly plot on April 15, USA Today reported.
Authorities in Cincinnati, Ohio responded to reports that a student pulled a gun and shot himself inside a La Salle High School classroom in front of this classmates on Monday morning,. Officials were called to the school on North Bend Road around 9 a.m. In an apparent suicide attempt, the student remains in the hospital.
California investigators have yet to identify the intruder who stabbed and killed 9-year-old Leila Fowler in her home on Saturday. Fowler was found by her brother with several stabbing injuries in her Calaveras County, California home. She died later that day at a hospital, according to a Calaveras County Media Release by Jim Macedo.
Two seventh-grade girls in New Jersey girls have been suspended from classes, and may face criminal charges for allegedly threatening to kill about a dozen of their classmates in a YouTube video.
The surviving Boston Marathon bombings' suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev has been transferred from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and taken to the Federal Medical Center Devens about 40 miles west of Boston, the Guardian reported. The facility treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialized long-term medical or mental health care.
A Jersey City man was arrested at a Hoboken train station carrying two homemade explosives, the Jersey Journal reported, eight days before two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. After the hearing on Wednesday, police determined "there is no indication at this point of the investigation that [Panasenko] intended to detonate a device in his building or on the transit system."
The surviving suspect in the Boston bombings has told investigators that he and his brother planned to bomb Times Square, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Thursday, as reported by the New York Daily News."Last night we were informed by the FBI that the surviving attacker revealed that New York City was next on their list of targets," Mayor Bloomberg said. The Tsarnaev brothers came up with the plan spontaneously after the Boston bombing, as they talked in an SUV they had carjacked, New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said.
Thirteen female correction officers helped a dangerous national gang operate a drug-trafficking and money-laundering scheme from behind bars that involved cash payments, sex and access to fancy cars, federal prosecutors said.
Police reportedly recovered the body missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi from the Providence River.Authorities told the Boston Globe that it is "very possible" that the body they found on Tuesday is that of 22-year-old Tripathi, who has been missing since March 16. Tripathi was also in the news last week when Reddit - a social news and entertainment website- misidentified him as one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. Later on in the week, the two suspects of the bombings were that of the Tsarnaev brothers.
During the manhunt in Watertown, Massachsetts for Suspect 2 Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one police officer delivered milk to the Wells family in Brookline while the city was on lockdown. The photo was posted on the family's Facebook page
'Suspect 1' of the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, twice disrupted sermons to challenge views expressed by preachers leading services at a local mosque, the Islamic Society of Boston said.
The two suspects of the Boston Marathon bombings aunt Maret Tsarnaeva still believes her nephews are innocent. She has claimed she has also received numerous threats since she came forward on Friday.
Canadian authorities have arrested two men, Chiheb Esseghaier, of Montreal and Raed Jaser, of Toonto, with links to Al Qaeda with conspiring to murder people on a VIA Canadian railway passenger train. While the subjects had the capacity to carry out an attack, the public was never in imminent danger.
Gunfire erupted at an apartment complex in Federal Way, a city south of Seattle, and five people were reportedly shot to death, including a suspect who was shot by arriving officers.
Officials said Terminal 4 at John F. Kennedy International was briefly evacuated on Sunday afternoon because of a suspicious package discovered in the bag room from El Al Airlines.
A foreign government told the FBI in early 2011 about information that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the brothers suspected in the bombings, was a follower of radical Islam.
Boston authorities in Watertown, Massachusetts captured Dzokhar Tsarnaev, an ethnic Chechen and naturalized American citizen, who was said to have been taken to an area hospital in serious condition, apprehended at approximately 8:45 on Friday evening.
Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth this week after the explosions killed three people and wounded more than 180 others
