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Ibragim Todashev, shown in May 4, 2013 Orange County Corrections Department booking photo after his arrest for aggravated battery in Orlando. (AP Photo)

Man shot by FBI had ties to Boston bombing suspect

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A Chechen immigrant shot to death in Florida after an altercation with an FBI agent implicated himself in a triple slaying that officials believe may have been connected to Boston Marathon […]

2013/05/23

NY state senator charged with embezzlement

NEW YORK (AP) — A once-powerful New York state senator was arrested Monday in a widening corruption scandal that has resulted in criminal charges against other lawmakers and turned some into wire-wearing informants. Sen. John […]

2013/05/06

Raid of Minn. home disrupted ‘terror attack’

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The FBI says a potential terror attack that it believes was disrupted by a mobile home raid was in its “planning stages” and the target was believed to be in western Minnesota. […]

2013/05/06

US Department of Justice handout of evidence recovered on April 26, 2013 from a landfill in New Bedford, allegedly showing contents of backpack belonging to Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, image included in criminal complaint against Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayako. (AP Photo)

FBI: 3 removed backpack from Boston suspect’s room

BOSTON (AP) — Three college friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were arrested and accused Wednesday of removing a backpack containing fireworks emptied of gunpowder from Tsarnaev’s dorm room three days after the […]

2013/05/01

Obama: review of Boston attack information sharing

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that no stone will be left unturned in reviewing whether any sensitive intelligence was missed that could have stopped the deadly attacks on the Boston Marathon.

2013/04/30

Zubeidat Tsarnaeva (r), mother of the two Boston bombing suspects, and Anzor Tsarnaev (l), father of the two Boston bombing suspects, Makhachkala, Dagestan, Russia. (AP Photo)

Mother of bomb suspects found deeper spirituality

BOSTON (AP) — In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the U.S. from Russia […]

2013/04/28

Devens Federal Medical Center in Massachusetts (AP Photo)

Boston suspect is moved; FBI searches landfill

BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhohkar Tsarnaev was moved from a hospital to a federal prison medical center, while FBI agents searched for evidence Friday in a landfill near the college he was attending.

2013/04/26

Eric Justin Toth, on the FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, escorted by National Police agents, Managua, Nicaragua. (AP Photo)

FBI shows new photo of teacher in child porn case

WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI has released a new photograph of a former D.C. elementary school teacher who was arrested in Nicaragua over the weekend on child pornography charges in hopes it will encourage any other potential abuse victims to come forward.

2013/04/24

People seek items dropped in Marathon panic

BOSTON (AP) — Christopher Baldwin came to police headquarters Tuesday in hopes of recovering the cell phone he dropped in the chaos following the twin bombings at last week’s Boston Marathon. Learning that the FBI likely had his phone, he tried to keep things in perspective.

2013/04/23

Second man says home being searched in ricin case

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — A second Mississippi man says the FBI is searching his home in connection with the ricin letter case. Everett Dutschke says in a phone interview with The Associated Press that the FBI was at his home Tuesday for the search.

2013/04/23

These FBI photos show Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (l-r), brothers identified by the FBI as suspects number 1 and 2 in 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. (AP Photo)

Officials: Boston bomb suspect read jihadist sites

(AP) — Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an ardent reader of jihadist websites and extremist propaganda, adding another piece to the body of evidence that suggests the brothers were motivated by an anti-American, radical version of Islam.

2013/04/23

Officials: Dead Boston suspect’s name in database

WASHINGTON (AP) — The name of the dead Boston Marathon bombing suspect was included in a federal government travel-screening database in 2011 after the FBI investigated the man at Russia’s request, two law enforcement officials […]

2013/04/22