BOSTON — In a startling turn, Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev apologized for the lethal attack for the first time Wednesday just before a judge formally sentenced him to death. “I am sorry for the lives that I’ve taken, for the suffering that I’ve caused you, for the damage that I’ve done — irreparable damage,” […]
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Boston Marathon bomber’s friend gets 6 years in prison
BOSTON — A college friend of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison after he apologized to the victims and their families for not calling police when he recognized photos of Tsarnaev as a suspect. Dias Kadyrbayev, 21, pleaded guilty last year to obstruction of justice and conspiracy charges […]
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Boston bombing defense rests in penalty phase
BOSTON — Lawyers for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev rested their case Monday to save him from the death penalty, portraying him as an impressionable teenager from a troubled family who was lured into the deadly plot by his radicalized older brother. The defense team called more than 40 witnesses during the penalty phase of […]
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Prosecution rests its case against Boston Marathon bomber
BOSTON — Prosecutors rested their case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev on Monday after jurors in his federal death penalty trial saw gruesome autopsy photos and heard a medical examiner describe the devastating injuries suffered by an 8-year-old boy killed in the 2013 terror attack. At least three jurors cried and wiped their eyes […]
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Defense admits Tsarnaev carried out Boston Marathon bombing
BOSTON — Dzhokhar Tsarnaev went on trial for his life Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombing with his own lawyer bluntly telling the jury he committed the crime. But she argued that he had fallen under the influence of his older brother. “It WAS him,” Judy Clarke, one of the nation’s foremost death-penalty defense attorneys, […]
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Man who reportedly supplied gun to Boston Marathon bomber sentenced on drug charge
PORTLAND — Two local men, one of whom the Los Angeles Times said supplied a gun to the man charged with the Boston Marathon bombing, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court on drug charges. Biniam “Icy” Tsegai, 28, of Portland was sentenced to eight years in prison for his role in a crack cocaine […]
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Reports say Boston Marathon suspect got gun from Maine
BOSTON — News reports link the gun used by Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsaraev to Maine. The reports say a black Ruger P95 was boughtin 2011 at Cabela’s in Scarborough and passed to a gang member in Portland. Authorities are unable to say how Tsaraev got the gun. His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded […]
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U.S. prosecutors to seek death penalty in Boston Marathon bombing trial
BOSTON (AP) — The announcement by federal prosecutors that they will seek the death penalty against the man accused in the Boston Marathon bombing came as no surprise to people who lost limbs or suffered other injuries in last year’s attack. But the victims and their families expressed a range of emotions about the decision […]
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Friends of bombing suspect face conspiracy charges in Boston
BOSTON — Two friends of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were indicted Thursday for allegedly trying to throw away fireworks and other items police say they found in Tsarnaev’s dorm room before his capture. Authorities later found some of the items in a New Bedford landfill, the federal indictment says. Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat […]