Casting for additional leads, authorities pleaded Tuesday with spectators from the Boston Marathon to send photos and video that may shed light on who set off two shrapnel-studded bombs that killed three people and injured at least 176. Read the rest of this entry »

Those wounded in the Boston Marathon bomb attack included two brothers who went to cheer on a friend, and each lost a leg, their mother told the Boston Globe. Liz Norden told the newspaper she was home when she got a call on her cellphone from her younger son, who was in an ambulance. Read the rest of this entry »

CHRISTIANSBURG, Va. -- The suspect in a shooting at a community college that injured two women legally purchased his weapon two days earlier and told detectives after his arrest he "was having a bad week," police said Monday. Read the rest of this entry »

New York City police have stepped up security in subways and in hotels and other prominent locations following explosions at the Boston Marathon. Chief NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said critical response teams are deployed around the city until more about the explosion is learned. Read the rest of this entry »

Authorities say video surveillance footage from an Albany Walmart store shows a uniformed U.S. Army officer being attacked by a man who had verbally harassed the soldier for his military service. Read the rest of this entry »

A nine-year-old Oregon kill was killed when her mother's boyfriend's gun accidentally went off, and she was shot. Shayla Shonneker, 9, was playing in the backyard of her mother's home when the tragedy occurred. Read the rest of this entry »

Jerry Arnold Payne, 63, died earlier today of burns to his upper torso. Payne was doused in flammable liquid and set alight in Long Beach, California. Horrified passers-by dragged his flaming body from the car. Police arrested 38-year-old Raymond Sean Clark. Read the rest of this entry »

KAUFMAN, Texas — Authorities investigating the murders of a Texas prosecutor and his wife believe a former county official sent a threatening email to law enforcement officers one day after the killings. Read the rest of this entry »

AKRON, Ohio — The last of five bridge bomb-plotting suspects is mentally competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Monday after hearing testimony on the man's two-decade history of mental health issues. Read the rest of this entry »