Boston Marathon Bombing

(Associated Press) - A federal judge will hear arguments next month on Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's request for a new trial. Tsarnaev's lawyers said in a motion filed in August that he did not receive a fair trial in Boston...

A judge has rejected a motion by The Boston Globe to publicly release the names of jurors in the Boston Marathon bombing trial. Judge George O'Toole Jr.'s ruling Monday came more than three months after a federal jury convicted DzhokharTsarnaev in the deadly 2013 attack and voted in favor of the death penalty...

Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokar Tsarnaev is asking for a new trial. Tsarnaev's lawyers filed an appeal on Monday, saying he didn't get a fair trial because of the trial's publicity. Among the points his legal team argues is that the jurors were using social media during the trial and wouldn't have been able to avoid news about it...

Bridgewater State University has named its Institute for Social Justice after the youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombing. University President Dana Mohler-Faria said at a ceremony Wednesday the institute exemplifies what Martin Richard stood for, peace...

Death penalty opponents are renewing their calls for mercy as the federal trial of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev enters the penalty phase. More than a dozen protesters held signs outside the courthouse Tuesday. Sister Jane Morrissey, of the Sisters of St...

The parents of the youngest victim of the Boston Marathon bombing are urging federal authorities to consider taking the death penalty off the table for the man convicted in the case.

The jury that found Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty of the Boston Marathon bombing will begin the penalty phase of the trial on April 21st. A federal judge set the date today, noting that Tsarnaev's defense team had asked for additional time to resolve "logistical issues" with potential witnesses...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been convicted in the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon.

Being from Boston, it kind of comes as no surprise that Mark Wahlberg is set to produce and star in a movie about the Boston Marathon bombing and the manhunt that followed.

BOSTON (AP) _ Prosecutors have rested their case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev with gruesome autopsy photos of the people who died in the 2013 terror attack. Tsarnaev's lawyer said in opening statements that Tsaranev participating in the bombings but that his older brother, Tamerlan, was the mastermind...