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Boston Marathon bombings
By adamg - 5/30/14 - 11:34 am
Last year, Liz Feitelberg reports, she got a visit from the FBI over three mystery explosions she heard in West Quincy in March and April. And then there's the single-engine plane that started buzzing the town after the Marathon.
By adamg - 5/30/14 - 9:03 am
Mass Live reports a Quincy man who allegedly ate dinner with the Tsarnaev brothers the night of the bombing is now under arrest.
By adamg - 5/14/14 - 8:18 pm
Dan Kennedy ponders whether the Globe should have revealed the names it found thanks to bad PDF redaction - a few months after WBUR found the names but didn't publish them. Does the fact that the FBI agent had some major issues in his past change the calculation?
By adamg - 5/7/14 - 3:43 pm
Boston Municipal Court Judge Thomas Horgan ruled today that Kevin "Kayvon" Edson is competent enough to assist in his own trial, following a mental-health evaluation at Bridgewater State Hospitals, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
Edson is charged with disturbing the peace, disorderly conduct, disturbing a public assembly, possession or use of a hoax device and making a false bomb threat for an incident April 15, not long after memorial services at the Boston Marathon finish line.
By adamg - 4/28/14 - 4:00 pm
Vanyaland investigates what happened to the $15,000 or so raised in a hardcore concert in Quincy last year that never made it to the One Fund. Well, half of it never made it. The owner of the South Shore Music Hall canceled his never-cashed check for his proceeds to the concert organizer, then wrote a new check directly to the One Fund.
By adamg - 4/24/14 - 10:33 am
Paul Nutting and Andrea at WBZ report MassDOT took down the 65-foot banner on the Savin Hill bridge over 93 due to the wind, returned it to the artist.
By adamg - 4/23/14 - 11:08 pm
Seems somebody removed the Martin Richard memorial banner from the bridge to Savin Hill over the Expressway. Its creators are wondering why - and where it is.
By adamg - 4/20/14 - 6:32 pm
Amy B. photographed the line to get into Marathon Sports - scene of one of the two explosions last year - the day before the 2014 Marathon.
By adamg - 4/18/14 - 9:47 pm
Brian D'Amico photographed the return of the comfort dogs to the Back Bay today. The dogs, sponsored by Lutheran Church Charities, first came to Boston in the aftermath of the Marathon last year.
Copyright Brian D'Amico. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 4/16/14 - 1:59 pm
A Wakefield man was ordered held in lieu of $100,000 bail and sent down to Bridgewater for evaluation at his arraignment today on a variety of charges related to the alleged act of performance art that led police to shut Boylston Street for more than two hours last night on the anniversary of the Marathon bombings.
By adamg - 4/15/14 - 7:09 pm
UPDATE: Kayvon Edson faces a variety of charges in Boston Municipal Court following his arrest at the finish line.
Boylston Street was shut at the Marathon finish line tonight after police found two unattended backpacks - not long after a barefoot man dressed like a Southern belle in mourning danced his way up the street with a backpack on, yelling "Boston Strong."
By adamg - 4/15/14 - 6:19 pm
Brian D'Amico watched commemorations on Boylston Street, including a changing of the guard at a marker for one of the two explosion sites.
Meanwhile, Tom Reiner watched and listened to ships in the harbor sound their horns after the afternoon's moment of silence.
By adamg - 4/15/14 - 8:12 am
The BPL's main library in Copley Square currently has an exhibit (in the old, McKim wing) of memorials left by runners and visitors after the Marathon last year. At the end of your walk are several budding trees - and blank tags on which you can write a new message.
At the Old North Church in the North End, you'll find another collection of tags - representing the dog tags of soldiers lost in Afghanistan and Iraq. K.M. Peterson visited the memorial garden recently:
By adamg - 4/15/14 - 7:41 am
The Globe assembled dozens of people who had something to do with the Marathon for a large photo.
By adamg - 4/13/14 - 9:28 am
The Globe's David Abel interviews the Richard family on their day before 2:50 p.m. last April 15 - and their lives since:
Abel says:
The hardest story I've ever written, especially as a new dad and someone on the finish line that day.
By adamg - 4/12/14 - 9:03 am
Tyler was among the thousands who headed to Boylston Street this morning for a Sports Illustrated cover to mark the anniversary of the Marathon bombings.
Dear World has some powerful photos and video of survivors of the bombings posing on the finish line.
By adamg - 4/11/14 - 8:36 am
Inside Medford reports on the plans for Medford Square. One of the victims, Krystle Campbell, was from Medford.
By adamg - 4/11/14 - 8:24 am
Dorchester residents will gather on Tuesday at 7 p.m. to remember those lost in the Marathon violence.
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