Gina Tomaine photographed the sneakers at the Copley Square memorial.
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Boston Marathon bombings
By Anonymous - 4/24/13 - 10:31 am
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Leave it to the Boston Herald to use the recent tragedy of the Boston Marathon bombing for politics, the politics of transitional assistance also known as welfare. Say what? What does domestic terrorism and welfare have to do with each other?
By adamg - 4/24/13 - 10:19 am
Michael Ratty spotted this message to Martin Richard in the new memorial in Copley Square park today.
By adamg - 4/24/13 - 6:47 am
Roving UHub photographer Bosfiddle was up at 3:30 a.m., in time to watch DPW crews remove barriers blocking Boylston at Hereford. He also spotted a new window on Marathon Sports, scene of the first bomb blast: Read more.
By adamg - 4/24/13 - 6:29 am
The New York Daily News reports that, like any good Bostonian in need of explosives, Tamarlan went up to New Hampshire, where he bought the biggest, baddest, "barely legal" fireworks kit from which to extract gunpowder - and the store threw in a second kit absolutely free. It's the same store, the News adds, that sold fireworks to the guy who tried blowing up Times Square a few years ago.
By adamg - 4/23/13 - 8:09 pm
Complete listing; roads, including Memorial Drive between the BU Bridge and Mass. Ave., and the Mass. Ave. bridge into Cambridge, will be closed during the morning rush hour.
By adamg - 4/23/13 - 11:32 am
Members of the MBTA SWAT team talked to CNN about the end of the stand off at the Watertown boat.
By adamg - 4/23/13 - 8:57 am
As he did after the Newtown shootings, Carlos Arredondo has helped turn the Soldier's Monument into a memorial this time to the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings - one of whom he helped keep alive.
By adamg - 4/23/13 - 7:59 am
Lost in all the other news last week was the fate of Back Bay residents forced out of their homes because their apartments and condos were located in a crime scene. One of them, Mike the Mad Biologist, wants to know why the city basically ignored these residents:
By adamg - 4/23/13 - 6:31 am
The firefight between the two suspects and police happened right outside Andrew Kitzenberg's house.
By adamg - 4/22/13 - 11:40 pm
Although Copley station remained shut tonight, Alex Mellion notes:
The lights are on again at Copley! What an awesome thing to finally see!
By adamg - 4/22/13 - 8:20 pm
Phelan Canney looked out the window this evening.
RedSox223 photographed the Pru from the Charles:
By adamg - 4/22/13 - 4:22 pm
The FBI plans to formally turn Boylston Street in Copley Square back to the city in a ceremony at 5 p.m., the mayor's office announces:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation will present Mayor Menino with a commemorative American flag that has flown at half-staff over the Boston Marathon Finish line in a ceremony that will turn Boylston Street back over to the City of Boston.
After that, the city will start a five-step process to return the street to normal:
By adamg - 4/22/13 - 3:12 pm
Neal Gaffey watched people come out of City Hall and nearby offices for the moment of silence.
In the Financial District, Jed Hresko watched a lone woman come out and observe the moment of silence.
Our own Stevil reports from Boylston and Berkeley that "the silence made you want to cry:"
By adamg - 4/22/13 - 2:21 pm
Dana noticed the Alchemist at the MIT student center is sporting a new shoulder patch today.
By adamg - 4/22/13 - 2:12 pm
Details from the US Attorneys's office, which puts the injury toll at more than 200, in addition to the three people killed by the bombs last Monday. If convicted, he could face the death penalty or life in prison. He was formally charged in his hospital room at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
The FBI affidavit, below, has additional details on the government's allegations for both the bombings and the events after MIT Officer Sean Collier was murdered.
By adamg - 4/22/13 - 1:19 pm
A little excitement in Roslindale Square at lunchtime when somebody called police to report a disposable aluminum food tray covered in tin foil sitting under a car near the Citizens Bank on South Street. The area was taped off, the bomb squad summoned and determined the object was "inert."
By adamg - 4/22/13 - 10:26 am
Photo by MBTA.
MBTA buses and trains will come to a halt for today's moment of silence, one week after the bombings. A spokesman adds, however, they will do so only if safe.
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