BOSTON (AP) — Updated coverage of the 121st running of the Boston Marathon (all times local): Updated 12:10 p.m.: Kenya’s Geoffrey Kirui has won the Boston Marathon — his first marathon victory ever. Kirui outran Galen Rupp of the U.S. to take Monday’s 121st running of the race in an unofficial time of 2 hours, […]
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Boston Marathon: Ethiopia sweeps with Hayle and Baysa
Data curated by PointAfter BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on Monday’s 120th running of the Boston Marathon (all times local): UPDATED 12:20 p.m.: Lemi Berhanu Hayle of Ethiopia has won the Boston Marathon in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 12 minutes, 45 seconds. The 21-year-old pulled away from defending champion Lelisa Desisa as they crossed […]
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Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia wins Boston Marathon
#BostonMarathon: Live tweets from the Boston Marathon Meb Keflezighi wasn’t able to claim another Boston Marathon victory, but he still gave at least one runner a thrill on the course. The defending champion broke into a sprint on Boylston Street even though the leaders had already finished. Just before the line, he grabbed a woman’s […]
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Portland police chief downplays gang activity
PORTLAND — After a news report that the handgun used by suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev to shoot at pursuing police officers was funneled through “violent” gangs in Portland, the city’s police chief and a Federal Bureau of Investigation agent on Tuesday downplayed any link between “loosely affiliated criminal groups” in Portland and national gangs. At […]
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Boston Marathon: For local runners, crossing finish line well worth the training
For months, thousands of runners — including many from Maine — trained hard to run in one of the world’s marquee marathons in Boston, a race beset a year ago by unfathomable tragedy. Monday, with the finish line in sight, with the runners seeing the yellow-and-blue banners in the distance on a street stuffed with […]
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American Meb Keflizighi wins Boston Marathon
Bob Salsberg and Michelle R. Smith, Associated Press BOSTON — With security tight along the 26.2-mile course, nearly 36,000 runners set out from the Boston Marathon starting line Monday in a “Boston Strong” show of resilience a year after the bombing that turned the race into a scene of carnage. To the delight of many […]
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Froma Harrop: Lessons not learned in Boston bombing
Airport gift shops throughout New England are piling “Boston Strong” T-shirts in vivid colors. “Boston Strong” became a rallying cry of solidarity after the terrorist bombing last year at the Boston Marathon. As the anniversary of the attack — and the next race on April 21 — approaches, emotional coverage of the event and aftermath […]
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Boston bombing suspect pleads not guilty
BOSTON — His arm in a cast, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev pleaded not guilty to terrorism charges Wednesday in his first courtroom appearance since his capture at the end of a chaotic week in April. Tsarnaev, 19, smiled crookedly — he appeared to have a jaw injury — at his sisters in court […]
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Alleged marathon bomber heads for 1st public court hearing
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s arraignment was scheduled for Wednesday afternoon in federal court in Boston. He has been charged with using a weapon of mass destruction in the bombings that killed three people and wounded more than 260. The courthouse is expected to be jammed for 19-year-old Tsarnaev’s appearance. A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office said […]
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Feds: Boston suspect downloaded bomb instructions
BOSTON — Boston Marathon suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev downloaded bomb-making instructions from an al-Qaida magazine, gathered online material on Islamic jihad and martyrdom and later scrawled anti-American messages inside the boat where he lay wounded, a federal indictment charged Thursday. The 30-count indictment contains the bombing charges, punishable by the death penalty, that were brought in […]