Nearly every one of the senior deputies in the Boston Fire Department have lodged a formal complaint of "no-confidence" against Chief Steve Abraira, saying he failed to take the lead in the aftermath of the recent terrorist attack.
Since we learned their names one week ago, some have called Tamerlan and Dzhokar Tsarnaev terrorists, a labeling supported by the news that they hatched a plan to bomb New York — not just "party" there. Others have called them bros, and maybe — just maybe — that's a way of regaining some semblance of power.
A city that's been under siege for five days is now breathing a huge sigh of relief.
It's been a pretty tough week for everybody in America, but it's been other-worldly for Joe Berti — and not in a good way either. The Texas native witnessed both the Boston Marathon bombing and the Waco explosion.
Even as the Boston Marathon investigation was in its early stages, a combination of media reports and forensics expertise combine to give us a rough picture of what everyone wants to know besides how everyone's doing and who did this: How did the bombs go off?
Tuesday night, in cruel echoes of a stubborn daytime before it, yielded precious but little new information the Boston bombs — and sad remembrances of one, two, and almost three of the dead. The bomber or bombers remained elusive, and President Obama was scheduled to visit the site of "an act of terror" Thursday. Catch up on the day after — and new medical information from Wednesday morning briefings — as authorities prepare for the days ahead.
We know how we feel about terrorism, deeds that are to be hated, doers of which are evil. And we know the messages that come inevitably following such acts: Don't give them what they want. Those messages have come.
It was a strange feeling, to suddenly understand why people react the way they do when horrors like this happen, to feel that helpless immediacy that demands a response, any response.
As images from the carnage in Boston continue to surface — of missing legs, of fallen men — so, too, has the truth behind some of the most memorable among them, however horrific or human. This is the truth we know so far.
In the chaos following a pair of explosions in Boston, a wild report suddenly appeared: another, possibly related explosion had gone off at the John F. Kennedy Library. But the "explosion" later turned out to be an unrelated mechanical fire. So how did word of a third explosion spread?
President Obama did call the bombing of the Boston marathon "terrorism" in a brief statement on the event Monday, saying instead, "We still do not know who did this or why. People shouldn't jump to conclusions before we have all the facts."
Where the blasts occurred, the race course, reports of other devices.
Even as a city and a nation came together amidst the chaotic scene, there was not much good news in Boston this April 15. Catch up on all the details on the victims, the persons of interest, the moment of horror, and eyewitness accounts with the definitive account of a dark Patriot Day.
On March 18, 1990, two people stole 13 works from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum valued at over $500 million and got away with it. Until now, it seems, because the Boston Globe reports the FBI thinks they've found the criminals.
For all intents and purposes, I don't really like Boston, or at least in the everyday way that you need to like a place to truly like it, and live in it. And yet, when the city is besieged by cruel Internet attacks, I am as eager to jump to its defense as anyone. So let me defend it to you now.
Of all the major northeastern cities, Boston got the worst of the storm. A car ban has been in effect since yesterday evening while nearly two feet of snow fell in some areas. But a Boston covered in snow and without any traffic sure brings in some amazing pictures.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
The alternative car service, Uber, has gotten a cease and desist letter from the city of Cambridge just a month after Washington, D.C. tried to legislate the company out of its city.
The worrisome part of Sunday's big New York Times expose on TSA racial profiling at Boston's Logan Airport is that some in the agency look to be expanding their role into everyday police work, when they still can't get the hang of actually securing airports
In what is surely the weirdest story we've seen all day, the costume for Wally the Green Monster, the mascot of the Boston Red Sox, went missing from Fenway Park, and what elevated it beyond ho-hum theft (at least for us) was the suspicion that the culprit was wearing the suit about town.
Days after Boston Mayor Thomas Menino sent a letter to Chick-fil-A President Dan Cathy saying his restaurant wasn't welcome in his city, he's backtracking completely.
In the days since Boston Mayor Thomas Menino and Chicago Alderman Joe Moreno each suggested they wouldn't allow a Chick-fil-A franchises to build in their cities, a lot of people, including supporters of gay marriage, aren't so sure they're acting legally.
Greece's deficit problems were so bad that it has cost the European Union and International Monetary Fund €240 billion in promised bailout money to keep the country's debt crisis from taking down all of Europe. Quite a big problem for a nation that has an economy that's in fact smaller than the metro area of Boston.
Want another sign that this winter was more like a spring and this spring is more like a summer? Just look at the Boston Marathon, a usually great sporting tradition in the great sports town, made slightly less great this year when only 22,426 of the 26,716 registered runners showed up for the sweltering race today.
Catherine Greig, the woman who went on the run with Boston crime legend Whitey Bulger, faces as little as three years in prison after pleading guilty Wednesday afternoon to helping hide Bulger from authorities for 16 years. And, she won't have to testify against him.
The man who ran Boston for 16 years has died after a ten-year battle with Alzheimer's.
There was supposed to be a police crackdown at Occupy Boston overnight, but instead the protest site turned into a very literal love fest when a couple got married there as protesters stood down cops.
The Boston Globe's report about his downfall probably didn't tell him anything new
One investor who missed his chance to invest early says it was just a "generational thing"
He was arraigned at a court in Boston this afternoon
A court filing says he also visited Boston in disguise and 'armed to the teeth'
Bulger's first day in court ends after he requests a public defender
Who isn't the Winter Hill Gang leader connected to in Boston?
A list of the many times and places in which Bulger could have been caught before now
The South Boston mobster was arrested in Santa Monica after a 16-year manhunt
Women, plastic surgeons, dentist have all been called on to help find fugitive mobster
Boston wise guy spent 17 years living as an Idaho rancher before his arrest last month
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