The surviving Boston Marathon bombings' suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev has been transferred from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and taken to the Federal Medical Center Devens about 40 miles west of Boston, the Guardian reported. The facility treats federal prisoners and detainees who require specialized long-term medical or mental health care.
A Jersey City man was arrested at a Hoboken train station carrying two homemade explosives, the Jersey Journal reported, eight days before two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. After the hearing on Wednesday, police determined "there is no indication at this point of the investigation that [Panasenko] intended to detonate a device in his building or on the transit system."
After multiple surgeries since being seriously injured at the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, Heather Abbott was faced with a choice. She either could try and save her badly mangled foot or amputating her leg below the knee. She chose the latter because she knew that her foot was unlikely to ever again be functional, and that her leg would be shorter than the other. She spoke from her hospital bed at a news conference at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston.
While medical and recreational marijuana use may be legal in Colorado, employers in the state can lawfully fire workers who test positive for the drug, even if smoked while off duty, according to a court ruling on Thursday.
