• Judge agrees to delay in case of Boston bombing suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev

  By Pete Williams, NBC News justice correspondent The judge overseeing the government's prosecution of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the surviving defendant in the Boston Marathon bombing case, has agreed to delay the next step in the case for roughly a month.A probable cause hearing had been scheduled for May 30, but federal prosecutors and lawyers for Tsarnaev asked Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler ...

• Boston police target alleges gang members

  A police department spokeswoman says suspects include gang members and authorities are obtaining search warrants for several houses in the ...

• Tsarnaev’s probable cause hearing delayed until July

  Boston Marathon bombings suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s much-anticipated first public appearance has been put off for at least another two months by a federal judge.U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Marianne B. Bowler today granted a joint request by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and Tsarnaev’s defense team to postpone the former University of Massachusetts Dartmouth ...

• Cops Dad who nabbed foster kids went on lam with coolers blankets

  A fugitive Las Vegas father’s sports car was packed with coolers of food, pillows and blankets when authorities caught up to him and the two children he’s accused of kidnapping late last night."When we searched the vehicle, we found what would appear to be coolers of food to indicate the vehicle was going to be used for a prolonged trip. There were pillows and blankets," ...

• Biogen Idec seeks FDA approval for new MS drug

  Weston-based Biogen Idec said today it has submitted a biologics license application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for approval of an injectable drug called Plegridy to treat relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis.The submission was based on the results from the first year of a two-year global Phase 3 ADVANCE study, officials said, adding data demonstrated that Plegridy significantly ...

• Scramble on to succeed Boston Mayor Menino

  BOSTON -- There is no shortage of candidates looking to succeed retiring Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.City officials say more than a dozen candidates have submitted nomination papers with more expected to do so by Tuesday's 5 p.m. deadline.Menino is the city's longest serving mayor. He announced in March that he would not run for re-election after five full terms in office. The decision ...

• Boston pro-lifers demonstrate against honorary degree for Enda Kenny

  About 50 people demonstrated outside the grounds of Boston College on May 20 as the Jesuit institution conferred an honorary degree on Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Boston's Cardinal Sean O'Malley did not attend the day's commencement exercises. The cardinal had announced that he would not make his customary appearance because of Boston College's decision to honor Kenny, ...

• Forecasters warn of possibility of severe thunderstorms

  It may not officially be summer yet, but some strong summer-like storms bringing hail and high winds are expected across the state this afternoon, the National Weather Service said. A cold front dipping south and moving across the state has already produced some action in the western part of the state and southern New Hampshire, and scattered thunderstorms are set to develop after noon ...

• Vermont campsites opening Friday

  RUTLAND, Vt. (AP) - Forest officials are getting ready to open campsites in the Green Mountain National Forest in time for the Memorial Day ...

• NH officials predict visitor and spending increase

  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - New Hampshire tourism officials are predicting an increase in visitors and spending this Memorial Day weekend, though the outlook is not as optimistic as it was last ...

• Myrtle the Turtle returns to her home the big tank at the New England Aquarium

  The queen of New England Aquarium's Giant Ocean Tank has returned to her throne. Or, in Myrtle the green sea turtle's case, to the waters of the newly refurbished 20,000-gallon Caribbean coral reef exhibit. Though the tank doesn't officially open until July 1, aquarium divers have been slowly but surely adding 2,000 animals from nearly 200 species that will call the giant tank ...

• Documents 3 men had role in Vt. womans killing

  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) - Three men have been implicated in the September 2010 killing of a 78-year-old grandmother during a botched robbery at her home during which she was sexually assaulted before being shot in the head, say federal court documents filed in connection with another ...

• With high-tech guns users could disable remotely

  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - A high-tech startup is wading into the gun control debate with a wireless controller that would allow gun owners to know when their weapon is being moved - and disable it ...

• Providence police ID 19-year-old homicide victim

  Police say they responded to Steere Avenue at about 10:10 p.m. Monday for a report of a gunshot victim. They found city resident Tyler Marchand on the ground with a wound to the ...

• Kohler ordered to pay $9.6 million in patent suit

  KOHLER, Wis. (AP) - The Kohler Co. has been ordered in federal court to pay $9.6 million to a Massachusetts manufacturer for infringing on two of its patents for components that reduce exhaust emissions in marine ...

• Malloy speaks at tourism conference in Hartford

  Malloy said the two-year, $27 million state marketing initiative, unveiled last year, has paid off. He said there were more than 270,000 additional visits to Connecticut in the past year, generating an extra $161 million on dining, entertainment and ...

• Carol Burnett to receive top US humor prize in DC

  WASHINGTON (AP) - Carol Burnett, who became famous for playing a variety of characters in sketch comedy routines on her namesake television show, was named the winner of the nation’s top humor prize on ...

• Travel in Dagestan The Trail of the Boston Bombing

  In the mind of the average Russian, the impoverished Muslim region of Dagestan evokes any number of stereotypes: meek women in headscarves, leathery highlanders with tall sheepskin hats, Islamist fanatics with long beards and ceremonial daggers, streets patrolled by military vehicles, masked troops with assault rifles, and random, indiscriminate explosions. Those last three images also applied ...

• Mindgrub opens marketing offices in D.C. Boston and Philly

  Mindgrub CEO Todd Marks said the new marketing offices are needed to handle a growing client network that Mindgrub is developing. Mobile and Web developer Mindgrub Technologies LLC is opening marketing offices in Washington, Philadelphia and Boston. The new offices are needed to handle a growing client network that Mindgrub is developing along the East Coast, CEO Todd Marks said in a ...

• PURE Introduces Auto Insurance Option to Massachusetts Drivers

  Privilege Underwriters Reciprocal Exchange (PURE), the policyholder-owned property/casualty insurer that exclusively caters to high net worth individuals and families, will begin offering automobile insurance to its membership in Massachusetts. PURE began insuring fine homes, jewelry and art collections, excess liability and watercraft in the Commonwealth in 2011. PURE Member Advocates offer ...

• Boston Scientific competitor calls the cops to seize illegal stents in Germany

  A stent is a tiny mesh tube implanted during an angioplasty procedure improve blood flow. A Hong Kong-based medical device manufacturer thats been accusing Boston Scientific Corp. (NYSE:BSX) of patent infringement since at least 2009 upped the ante last week, seizing more than 190 heart stents from a BSX site in Germany with the help of police. OrbusNeich Medical Inc., which has U.S. offices in ...

• Falcons get $200 million NFL loan for stadium

  NFL owners approved a $200 million loan Tuesday for the Atlanta Falcons to build a new stadium.The multipurpose stadium could cost as much as $1 billion, with team owner Arthur Blank committed to funding most of it.Blank, speaking at the NFL's spring meetings, called the decision by the team owners an "important milestone" in moving the project forward."The NFL has supported ...

• Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager

  BANGOR, Maine -; A 20-year-old Maine man has been charged with murder in the death of a 15-year-old girl who was last seen more than a week ago, when she went to meet someone she befriended ...

• Moniz sworn in as energy secretary

  The 68-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor took the oath of office Tuesday at the Energy Department. He replaces Steven Chu, who served as energy secretary in President Barack Obama's first term. Moniz served as an energy undersecretary in the Clinton ...

• 2 lawsuits filed against Maine Catholic church

  - Two brothers are suing the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland, saying church officials knew a priest was sexually abusing them and other children but failed to stop it. In complaints in Cumberland County Superior Court, Jeffrey and Frederick Conroy say the late Father James Vallely abused them from approximately 1976 through approximately 1979, when they were altar boys at St. Michael's ...

• Bit9 partners with network security giants Palo Alto Networks FireEye

  Bit9 has partnered with Silicon Valley network security firms Palo Alto Networks and FireEye. Waltham-based security software firm Bit9 said Tuesday it has launched a partnership with Silicon Valley network security firms Palo Alto Networks and FireEye to bring customers a fuller vision of their network security. Bit9 called it the "first solution to combine network security with real-time, ...

• Moderate Party chief Block to run again for RI gov

  Since then, Block has accused the state of not doing enough to eliminate Medicaid and food stamp fraud and called for the elimination of straight-ticket voting as an option on election ...

• Massive Roxbury raid targets dozens of drug violent crime suspects

  A huge drug-trafficking sweep this morning in Roxbury has netted "a series of arrests," authorities said."Boston police, armed with warrants out of Roxbury District Court and Suffolk Superior Court, and a small number out of U.S. District Court, undertook a series of arrests based on a long-term investigation intending to target drug offenses and suppress violent crime," said ...

• Marathon bomb victims eligible for state fund

  BOSTON -- Those affected by the Boston Marathon bombings have an alternative to the widely-publicized One Fund when seeking compensation.The state's Victim Compensation Fund, administered by the attorney general's office, could provide up to $25,000 in aid to qualified applicants. Attorney General Martha Coakley, who is trying to raise awareness of the fund, says it may also help ...

• Children rescued after abduction by dad from Braintree foster home

  Two children state police said were abducted from a Braintree foster home by their father yesterday afternoon were rescued safe and sound late last night at a Connecticut convenience store, two hours after an Amber Alert was broadcast appealing to the public for help in locating them.It worked.Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said Jon T. Lockwood was captured at a 7-11 in ...

• Vt. judge denies new lawyer bid in teacher killing

  ST. JOHNSBURY, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont judge has denied a request for a new lawyer by a woman charged, along with her husband, with killing a popular St. Johnsbury ...

• Closing arguments set in ex-Donovan aides trial

  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) - A federal court jury is scheduled to hear closing arguments and begin deliberations in the corruption trial of an aide to former Connecticut House Speaker Chris ...

• Brown not expected to act on divestment this week

  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) - Brown University’s governing body isn’t expected to act on the issue of divestment at its business meeting this week despite a student campaign pushing for a ...

• Nurse sues hospital in NH hep C outbreak case

  EXETER, N.H. (AP) - A former Exeter Hospital nurse and roommate of a technician accused of stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C has sued the hospital, saying she was wrongfully ...

• Swipely raises $12M for new breed of payments processing

  Swipely, whose founder and CEO is Angus Davis, has raised a $12 million Series B round. Swipely, a Providence-based firm offering merchant payments processing paired with customer analytics, said Tuesday it's raised a $12 million Series B round led by new backer Shasta Ventures. Also taking part in the round were existing investors First Round Capital, Greylock Partners and Index Ventures. ...

• Conn. foster mom pleads guilty for spoon-spanking

  NORWICH, Conn. -- A Connecticut foster mother faces 100 days in jail after acknowledging she spanked a 4-year-old girl with a wooden spoon.Jami Littlefield pleaded guilty Monday in Superior Court in Norwich to third-degree assault.The Day of New London reports ( http://bit.ly/10LwYFg) Littlefield told authorities she paddled the girl on the buttocks because she was acting out. Littlefield ...

• PoroGen gets $1M loan renovates new facility

  PoroGen began renovations to its 30,000-square-foot facility at 35A Cabot Road at the end of 2012 and completed the reconstruction earlier this year. PoroGen Corp., a venture-backed company, has updated one of its two Woburn facilities and added new hires thanks to a $1 million loan from MassDevelopment, the states finance and development agency which is focused on economic growth in the ...

• Former RI senate candidate runs for Colo. governor

  Former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey took on then-incumbent U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (CHAY'-fee) in the Republican primary in 2006. Laffey had the backing of conservative groups such as the Club for Growth, and lost. Chafee went on to lose in the general ...

• Attleboro rehires contractor despite lunch flap

  ATTLEBORO, Mass. - The city of Attleboro has renewed its contract with the food services company that created a national ruckus when its workers denied lunch to about two dozen middle school students whose account balances were in arrears.The school committee on Monday approved a one-year contract with New York-based Whitsons Culinary Group.Whitsons officials apologized after cafeteria workers ...

• Bruschi elected to Patriots team Hall of Fame

  The team announced Tuesday that the linebacker and three-time Super Bowl champion will be inducted along with broadcaster Gil Santos at a ceremony Aug. ...

• Another slow commute following train collision

  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) - Connecticut commuters faced another morning of longer-than-normal delays on the highways leading to New York, as workers finished up repairs on the Metro-North railroad following last week’s train collision near ...

• Some UMass Memorial nurses plan to strike

  WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) - Nurses at UMass Memorial Medical Center-University Campus are planning a strike after the latest round of contract talks failed to result in a ...

• Investigators probe Boston suburb in Marathon bombing

  Boston Marathon bombings want to know what attracted the Tsarnaev brothers to the Massachusetts suburb of Watertown, authorities said. Law enforcement officials told ABC News it is clear the brothers had connections in Watertown because they headed there days after the April 15 attack. A parking ticket obtained by ABC News was issued to a car registered to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Feb. 18, 2011, on ...

• Harvard-MITs EdX adds 15 schools

  EdX, the $60M online learning partnership founded last year by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has added 15 schools, more than doubling its membership at a stroke. The Harvard Crimson reported the deal Tuesday. "The 15 schools span the globe, with six additions from Asia, five in the United States, three from Europe, and one from Australia," the Crimson ...

• Raytheon Lockheed Martin in battle to build $3B space fence

  The U.S. Air Force is expected to pick a winner this summer to build an advanced radar system capable of tracking an estimated half a million pieces of manmade space junk, floating in orbit, before it can threaten satellites used for navigation, weather and communication. Raytheon (NYSE: RTN) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) have competing proposals for the project, the Boston Globe reports. Both ...

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