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BOSTON (AP) — A seriously wounded Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged in his hospital room Monday with bombing the Boston Marathon in a plot with his older brother and could get the death penalty for the attack that killed three people. Tsarnaev, 19, was charged by federal prosecutors with using and conspiring to use a weapon […]

Commentary

Dead air. It’s the bane of a broadcaster’s existence. Dead air is that pause that is too long, that allows listeners or viewers to change stations, that costs a station advertising and ratings points. Engineers, producers, news directors, reporters who allow dead air on their station or network are looking at termination. And so in […]

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Usually a curse word uttered on live television would get the FCC all riled up and itching to level huge fines. But in the wake of the Boston bombings and subsequent manhunt, FCC chairman Julius Genachowski made a rare exception. Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz slipped an f-bomb into a speech broadcast live before […]

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BOSTON (AP) — One week after the Boston Marathon bombings, doctors say everyone injured in the blasts who made it alive to a hospital now seems likely to survive. More than 180 people were hurt in the explosions, and at least 14 of them lost all or part of a limb. As of Monday, 51 […]

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CNN’s John King has taken to Twitter to further explain his erroneous report of an arrest in the Boston Marathon bombing. “Source of that description was a senior government official. And I asked, are you sure? But I’m responsible. What I am not is racist,” the anchor wrote Thursday, according to The Hollywood Reporter. A […]

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The TJMS crew opens the week with some serious talk about the Boston Marathon Bombing before Tom and J. Anthony reflect on how their older siblings wouldn’t invite them to participate in any bomb-making activities.

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BOSTON (AP) — As churches paused to mourn the dead and console the survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing Sunday, the city’s police commissioner said the two suspects had such a large cache of weapons that they were probably planning other attacks. The surviving suspect remained hospitalized and unable to speak with a gunshot wound […]

Entertainment

T.I., also known as the King of the South, is one pissed off rapper. That’s because he’s been connected with a hip hop website that now dead Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev often visited before his demise Thursday night in a shoot out with authorities. T.I. is insisting that until now, he’d never even heard […]

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BOSTON (AP) — In the tight rows of chairs stretched across the Commonwealth Ballroom, the nervousness — already dialed high by two bombs, three deaths and more than 72 hours without answers — ratcheted even higher. The minutes ticked by as investigators stepped out to delay the news conference once, then again. Finally, at 5:10 […]

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The parents of Trayvon Martin have written a letter of support to the parents of the 8-year-old boy killed in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on Monday, according to theGrio. 8-year-old Martin Richard was one of the three people killed when two bombs were set off near the end of the race, where the […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama was briefed for an hour Friday morning on the developments in the Boston Marathon bombing investigation. Vice President Joe Biden also attended the briefing in the White House Situation Room. The briefing was led by Attorney General Eric Holder and FBI Director Robert Mueller. Secretary of State John Kerry, […]

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WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. law enforcement official and the uncle of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings are confirming that the name of the second suspect is Tamerlan Tsarnaev, the older brother of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev, 19. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a gun battle with police in Massachusetts overnight. Three law enforcement […]