Boston Bombing news timeline

BOSTON — More than 130 people were injured today as multiple explosions rocked the Boston Marathon in a "coordinated" terror attack.

The bloodthirsty terrorist who bombed yesterday’s Boston Marathon probably carried out heinous attack by loading explosives in kitchen pressure cookers and concealing them in heavy nylon bags, authorities revealed.

The pressure-cooker bombs that exploded in the viewing area of the Boston Marathon have long been favored by terrorists across the globe

Somewhere near Boston early Monday morning, he packed a bomb in a bag. It was by all accounts relatively crude — a pressure cooker, explosives, some wires, ball bearings and nails . . . nails which, hours later, doctors would struggle to remove from the flesh of bleeding victims.

Officials took one of two suspects in Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing into custody early this morning while another remained on the loose in a suburb of the city, the Boston Globe reported

This stunning surveillance photo captures the moment Dzhokhar Tsarnaev casually strolled past 8-year-old Martin Richard — just moments before Monday’s explosion ripped through the crowd and killed the innocent boy.

WATERTOWN, Mass. — Modern technology gave cops this amazing picture of alleged Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as he cowered in a 24-foot boat stored outside a Watertown home.

A fool who bicycled past a Central Park running race with a timer in his backpack caused a bomb scare yesterday, as jittery cops pulled out all the stops to make sure security was ramped up in light of the Boston Marathon bombing last week, officials said.

Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged yesterday with using a weapon of mass destruction, as dramatic new details painted a chilling picture of how he and his older brother methodically planted two explosives-laden backpacks near the finish line.

The name of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was listed on the U.S. government's highly classified central database of people it views as potential terrorists. But the list is so vast that this did not mean authorities automatically kept close tabs on him, sources close to the bombing investigation said on Tuesday.

IN THE weeks and months after the 2001 terrorist attacks, every iconic sports event became an occasion for anxiety. World Series games, the Super Bowl — with each, trepidation suffused every fan’s normal interest.

President Obama told reporters Tuesday morning that federal authorities are investigating Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon “as an act of terrorism,” though they still did not know who perpetrated the attack and what might have been the motive.

BOSTON — Investigators were zeroing in Wednesday on video footage from a department store security camera, possibly showing a man wearing a large backpack and then dropping it, in the first sign of a possible breakthrough in the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings.

BOSTON — Natives of this city seem to have two basic messages for what President Obama called the “small, stunted individuals” responsible for Monday’s bombing.

WATERTOWN, Mass.— Police said they had taken the second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings into custody here Friday night, after a day of intense searching that shut down daily life across a large swath of greater Boston.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's arrest Friday night ended a wrenching five days in Boston, which began
Monday afternoon when two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Federal prosecutors on Sunday were preparing to file charges against the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, even as he remained under heavy guard at a local hospital amid questions about whether authorities would be able to interrogate him.

Without Sept. 11, 2001, it is doubtful that New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani would have become a national figure and a presidential candidate. And President George W. Bush’s presidency and legacy would have been entirely different in ways we can hardly imagine.

(CNN) -- Two bombs struck near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, turning a celebration into a bloody scene of destruction.

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(CNN) – Republican Rep. Peter King, former chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Friday the Chechen community in the United States doesn't have a history of radicalization but argued it's time to question whether that's changed.

Watertown, Massachusetts (CNN) -- First there was a burst of gunfire. Then a series of blasts. Then, less than an hour later, cheers.

Sen. Graham on the FBI’s handling of suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, now dead, in a discussion with Sen. Schumer on last week’s bombing. The two also weighed the possibility of the death penalty for the other suspect, Dzhokhar.

At 2:50 p.m. Monday, Boston will fall silent to honor the victims of a tragedy that unhinged the city.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with one count of using and conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction resulting in death and one count of malicious destruction of property by means of an explosive device resulting in death, according to a statement from the Justice Department.

The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings has told investigators that his older brother - not any international terrorist group - masterminded the deadly attack, a U.S. government source said.

Tonight Anderson Cooper spoke to Marvin Salazar, who knew both a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and a victim of the blasts.

(CNN) -- Hours after talking at length with U.S. and Russian authorities, the father of the two suspects in last week's deadly Boston Marathon attack is set to fly to the United States -- and cooperate with authorities -- an activist working with the family told CNN.

(CNN) -- Even after the identification of the Boston bombing suspects through grainy security-camera images, officials say that blanketing a city in surveillance cameras can create as many problems as it solves.