The Boston Marathon bombing suspect and alleged cop-killer, who held Greater Boston in fear and under lockdown yesterday as thousands of cops swarmed the unsuspecting suburb of Watertown, was weak and clinging to life when authorities plucked him from the boat where he’d been cowering in a backyard, police said.CLICK HERE FOR A TIMELINE OF EVENTS“He had lost a lot of blood. He was so weak that we were able to just go in and scoop him up,” said state police spokesman David Procopio, adding that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was in “serious if not critical condition.” Tsarnaev, 19, was taken Continue reading >>>

No one in Boston will forget the drama of the manhunt for two brothers suspected in the Marathon bombings. Nor will anyone forget the courage of the officers involved, including Sean Collier of the MIT police, who lost his life, and MBTA Transit officer Richard H. Donahue Jr., who was seriously injured. On Thursday night and Friday, residents of Greater Boston experienced the type of siege that most see only in movies. All along, though, the cooperation among authorities, victims, and an intensely engaged public made it clear there was no way for the bombers to escape accountability by remaining Continue reading >>>

There is security you see. There is security you don’t see. And suddenly there is a sense that there is no security at all. The last category best describes this terrifying week, which began with two terrorist bombings near the finish line of the Boston Marathon and ended with a running shootout with the suspects through Cambridge and Watertown. When law enforcement and the public finally catch their breath, a deep discussion needs to take place over how best to proceed. Terror attacks on American soil — homegrown or otherwise — inevitably raise debate over the danger of trading away our Continue reading >>>

Baseball will be played this afternoon at Fenway Park, but the Red Sox and the city of Boston knew by mid-afternoon yesterday that there would not be a game last night.With Greater Boston in a locked-down grip of a chilling and expansive manhunt from morning till night, as law enforcement officials chased one of the two alleged Boston Marathon bombers, the idea that the Fenway neighborhood would host some 30,000 fans for a 7:10 game became increasingly absurd as the search went on and on.Just before 3 p.m., the team tweeted that the game was postponed. “When this situation didn’t seem Continue reading >>>

The Boston Marathon bombing suspect and alleged cop-killer, who held Greater Boston in fear and under lockdown yesterday as thousands of cops swarmed the unsuspecting suburb of Watertown, was weak and clinging to life when authorities plucked him from the boat where he’d been cowering in a backyard, police said.CLICK HERE FOR A TIMELINE OF EVENTSGALLERY: CELEBRATIONS AFTER CAPTURE OF SUSPECT “He had lost a lot of blood. He was so weak that we were able to just go in and scoop him up,” said state police spokesman David Procopio, adding that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was in “serious if not Continue reading >>>

The tragic intertwining of these four lives began around 10:20 Thursday night, when, according to law enforcement officials, the police at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology received reports of gunfire on the Cambridge campus. Responding officers soon found their colleague, an M.I.T. officer, Sean A. Collier, 26, dead from multiple gunshots after possibly being ambushed in his police vehicle. As investigators were determining that two men — believed to be the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, and his brother, Dzhokhar, 19 — had shot Officer Collier, word came from another part Continue reading >>>