BOSTON — An explosion at the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday killed three people and injured dozens more. An at-a-glance look at the facts in the case: THE EXPLOSIONS Two bombs exploded about 10 seconds and 100 yards apart at about 2:50 p.m. Monday in Boston’s Copley Square, near the finish line […]

BAR HARBOR — Bar Harbor Fire Chief Matt Bartlett was near the Boston Marathon finish line with his 16-year-old stepdaughter when the bombs went off Monday. His wife, Lori, a Bar Harbor police and fire dispatcher running in her first Boston Marathon, was a few miles away when the explosions occurred. Bartlett said Tuesday that […]

BOSTON — Neighbors and friends remembered 8-year-old Boston Marathon bombing victim Martin Richard as a vivacious boy who loved to run, climb and play sports like soccer, basketball and baseball. Family friend Jack Cunningham spoke Tuesday of how, as a pint-sized preschooler, Martin had insisted on getting out of a stroller his mom was pushing […]

YARMOUTH — Rosalie Baker-Brown fired the starting gun at the Boston Marathon on Monday, something she’s done many times since the mid-1990s. Now 85, Baker-Brown has been intimately involved in the race for decades. She grew up in Hopkinton, Mass., where the marathon begins, and married into the Brown family, which helped found the race. […]

BOSTON — A 29-year-old restaurant manager has been identified as one of three people killed in the bombing at the Boston Marathon. Her father says Krystle Campbell, of Medford, Mass., had gone with her best friend to take a picture of the friend’s boyfriend crossing the finish line on Monday afternoon. William Campbell says his […]

BOSTON — The two bombs that ripped through the crowds at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 170, were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with shards of metal, nails and ball bearings, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday. The details on the apparently crude but deadly explosives […]

BOSTON — Police and federal agents appealed to the public Tuesday for amateur video and photos that might yield clues to the Boston Marathon bombing as the chief FBI agent in Boston vowed “we will go to the ends of the Earth” to find whoever carried out the deadly attack. Two bombs blew up seconds […]

BOSTON — Gary Allen was resting in the media center at the Copley Fairmount Hotel Monday afternoon when suddenly the nearby finish line of the 117th Boston Marathon was transformed from a point of celebration to a crime scene. “It was violent, violent,” said Allen, a Great Cranberry Island native who some 50 minutes earlier […]