Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Transit Officer Richard Donohue may have been hit by another officer's bullet during the chaos of the battle with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.
A Watertown resident who witnessed the shootout between police officers and the two Boston Marathon bombing suspects in the East End said she believes the MBTA officer critically injured in the battle on April 19 was struck by friendly fire. The Boston Globe reported Tuesday that a woman who lives just a few hundred feet from the scene of the chaotic gun battle saw officers firing at the bombing suspects and then saw someone at a nearby street corner fall. She wrote in a statement to the Globe that Donohue was hit near the end of the shootout as 19-year-old suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev drove away from the area in a stolen SUV. "It appeared to me that an individual at the corner [of the street] fell to the ground and had probably been hit in …
Monday, May 6, 2013
Campbell, killed in the Boston Marathon bombings, was a 2005 graduate of the school.
MassBay Community College established a scholarship fund in memory of Krystle Campbell, the Medford native killed in the Boston Marathon bombing attacks April 15. The school announced the fund at her memorial service April 23. Campbell, 29, earned an associate degree in business administration from MassBay in 2005, was a 2001 graduate of Medford High School, and most recently an Arlington resident. Her grandmother told the Globe that Campbell had recently moved to Arlington, having spent the past couple of years with her grandmother in Somerville to help her through an illness. The scholarship will be awarded to a full-time student majoring in business at the school who is also a Massachusetts resident, according to a release from MassBay…
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Officials stress there is no threat to the public, details still emerging.
Boston Police announced a major new development in the Boston Marathon bombing case Wednesday morning. According to the department, there are three new suspects in custody. Boston Police tweeted the news just after 11 a.m. Wednesday. There were no further details, though the police said they would offer more information soon. There is no additional information being released at the moment. BPD said additional details will be provided when they become available. Police stressed there was no immediate threat to the public. UPDATES BELOW 4:40 p.m. Attorneys for the three suspects all gave brief statements outside of the courtroom. Each stressed that his client cooperated with the investigation. An attorney for Kadyrbayez denied that his …
Monday, April 29, 2013
Tamerlan and Dzokhar Tsarnaev were among only a handful of Chechens in the area, including a prominent author/doctor in Needham.
After the Boston Marathon bombing on April 15, reports indicated the two suspects had ties to Chechnya, a small state in the Russian Federation. Enough people confused Chechnya with the Czech Republic that the Czech embassy recently issued a statement that the two are unrelated and far removed. So, to learn more about the country and its history Wellesley College hosted a panel discussion on April 25 about Chechnya, Russia and the bombing. Philip Kohl, Professor of Slavic Studies and Anthropology; Nina Tumarkin, Professor of History; and former Ambassador Thomas Simons all spoke, and Professor of Russian Thomas Hodge moderated. The panel explored some of the historical, political and religious context of Chechnya, a republic of Russia…
Runners gather at the High School for a fund dedicated to victims of the Boston Marathon
On Saturday, Wellesley residents gathered at the High School to show that the community is Boston Strong. The April 27 fundraiser, earned more than $7,300 for the One Fund, according Erin Purcell Gallo, one of the organizers. In an e-mail to Patch yesterday, Gallo said, Wellesley residents have a special relationship with the Boston Marathon whether they run the marathon or are spectators. Wellesley spectators have the honor of telling runners that they are half way home! And Wellesley runners feel like a celebrities running through their home town and as they leave Wellesley at mile 16 they know they only have single digits left to run. Today's event allowed all of Wellesley to heal and take back ownership and pride of their part of …
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Saturday, April 27, 2013
Let’s join together as ONE community for the One Fund to honor and support the families most affected.
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
At bedside hearing on Monday, Miranda rights were explained to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
When a suspect has been arrested, that person is informed he or she has the right, under the Constitution, to silence and to an attorney — these are what are known as Miranda rights. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz said Friday that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was not read his Miranda rights when taken into custody due to a public safety exception in cases of national security and acts of terrorism, but he has since had the Miranda rights read to him. At Tsarnaev's bedside hearing, a federal magistrate read him the Miranda rights on Monday. See the full transcript of the bedside hearing on the New York Times website (the reading of Miranda rights begins on Page 4). The exception stems from a 1984 case, New York V. …
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Bookmark this page for a round-up of stories exclusively about the Boston Marathon victims, and efforts underway to help them.
Thousands of Facebook users have been sharing this passionate post from the 'Salty Dad' fan page (must be signed in to Facebook to see), expressing a desire to learn more about the Boston Marathon victims, and less about the suspects. "It is time that we, as a nation, demand that the press, the politicians, the pundits, and the 24 hour 'news' channels news start focusing on the people that matter, and ignore the ones that don't," the original poster wrote, referencing the media attention given to the Boston Marathon bombing suspects. We at Patch want to do our part keeping the victims' memories alive. We'll update this article as often as possible, with articles about and for the victims that have been published in Patch and other media …
A memorial service for Krystle Campbell and a moment of silence for all affected by the Marathon bombing at MassBay Community College.
A funeral for one of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing last week held in Medford yesterday; Krystle Campbell was also remembered in Wellesley, as a graduate of MassBay Community College. Campbell graduated from the college in 2005, and was remembered at a memorial entitled "We are Boston." Dozens of faculty and staff turned out for a simple ceremony which began with the national anthem, and closed with a signing of "America, The Beautiful." "For those of us who were not her contemporaries at MassBay, we could know her simply by looking at her picture. Krystle's eyes were bright, engaging, caring, intelligent and direct." College president John O'Donnell said, "At MassBay we have lost so much--we have lost Krystle." The …
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A federal magistrate went to the hospital as a sealed complaint was filed against the bombing suspect.
Mike G.
6:40 pm on Wednesday, May 8, 2013
I don't think that's very fair to say "well if you don't like it, there's the door" when we're talking about regional stories. You simply can't apply Westford rules to regional stories. I respect that you're trying to do what you think is right by your readers, but when it comes to a regional story, it's way bigger than Westford. more ›