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BOSTON – The Boston Marathon is the oldest annual marathon in the world. The first race took place in 1897 with 18 runners, following on the success of the first modern marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Today, the Boston race attracts thousands or runners and with roughly 500,000 spectators
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BOSTON — Adrianne Haslet-Davis, the professional ballroom dancer who lost part of her leg three years ago today in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, next week will become the first bombing survivor to run the storied race. Haslet-Davis, a race spectator on April 15, 2013, is one of 17 survivors who
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BOSTON (AP) — Boston marked the third anniversary of the deadly 2013 marathon bombings Friday with subdued, silent remembrances. Victims' families laid wreaths at the spots where two pressure cooker bombs detonated near the Boylston Street finish line, killing three people and injuring more than 260.
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Following the Boston Marathon bombings on April 15, 2013, many people worked through their grief, and placed the events of that day into larger context, with photography, painting, poetry and other creative endeavors.
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BOSTON (AP) — Boston Marathon Bombing: The Play? It sounds improbable, but "Finish Line: The Untold Stories of the 2013 Boston Marathon" opens Thursday with a simple mission — to tell the stories of bravery, resilience and recovery through the eyes of people who lived them.
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BOSTON – CBS Films and Lionsgate announced that Kevin Bacon will be returning to Boston to star in "Patriots Day," a film about the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Bacon is well acquainted with Beantown films, having previously starred in "Black Mass" and "Mystic River." Bacon
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GHENT, Belgium (AP) — An American teenager wounded in the Brussels Airport attack is lucky to be alive. And he knows it. Mason Wells, his face covered in bandages, was in a hospital in the Belgian city of Ghent on Friday, where he told The Associated Press about surviving his second
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BOSTON – Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the convicted Boston Marathon bomber, worked with his slain brother, Tamerlan, to collect components of the two pressure-cooker bombs they used to kill three people and injure hundreds of others and didn't tell anyone else about their plan, which may have been at least a
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