From their official Twitter account, the Boston Police Department confirmed just after 11 a.m. local time Wednesday that three additional suspects have been detained by authorities. Three additional suspects taken into custody in Marathon bombing case. Details to follow. — Boston Police Dept. (@Boston_Police) May 1, 2013 According to a police source speaking anonymously with the Boston Globe, the three latest suspects are area college students, and CNN has reported that at least two of them have been charged with obstruction of justice in the case of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing. … Read More
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not be tried as enemy combatant
According to White House spokesman Jay Carney Monday, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will not be tried as an enemy combatant, but will face trial in a federal court. Via the Boston Globe:Pointing to other terrorists who have been tried and convicted in federal court, [Carney] said, “The system has repeatedly proven that it can successfully handle the threater that we continue to face.” He also said that US citizens cannot be tried before military commissions. Tsarnaev is a naturalized US citizen. He was sworn in as a citizen in September.According to the Massachusetts U.S. Attorney’s Office, the 19-year-old is with charged with conspiring to use weapon of mass destruction against persons and property in U.S. resulting in death:[embedtweet id="326389100867375106"]Continue Reading… … Read More
Boston Globe intern warned Dzokhar Tsarnaev about media attention
Zolan Kanno-Youngs, an intern at the Boston Globe, has appeared in a video for the newspaper describing his relationship with Dzokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the bombings of the Boston Marathon. Continue Reading… … Read More
Boston Globe intern warned Dzhokhar Tsarnaev about media attention
Zolan Kanno-Youngs, an intern at the Boston Globe, has appeared in a video for the newspaper describing his relationship with Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving suspect in the bombings of the Boston Marathon.Kanno-Youngs, who attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School with Tsarnaev in the class of 2011, said that he’d seen the photo of the suspect circulated by the FBI, but “even if the thought crossed my mind, it didn’t ring an alarm. It was too blurry, I thought it could never be.”The Globe intern said that Tsarnaev never discussed politics, and that he was “one of the most peaceful religious people I know.” Kanno-Youngs even had reached out to warn Tsarnaev after seeing the FBI photos “just to say be careful because these people might try and think it was you.”Continue Reading… … Read More
One suspect in Boston boming arrested – Boston Globe
The arrest of the suspect in the Monday attack was revealed by an official cited by The Boston Globe.The other chief suspect remains on the loose in Watertown after a firefight with police, the newspaper reports.A 20-block perimeter was established as the manhunt for the second suspect continues.Meanwhile the FBI has released more pictures of the suspects.MORE DETAILS TO FOLLOW … Read More
Malwarebytes update disables thousands of machines, fix released
A botched software update by Malwarebytes disabled thousands of systems around the globe this week, according to a blog post penned by CEO Marcin Kleczynski. Around 3PM PST on Monday, April 15, the security vendor released a definitions patch that wrongly identified legit system files as being malware. … Read More
Scientists reveal first results in hotly anticipated dark matter experiment
A massive science instrument that is spinning the globe aboard the International Space Station has provided its first glimpse of what may be mysterious dark matter in the universe, experts said Wednesday. The first results from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, the most sensitive particle physics…
