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Those wounded in the Boston Marathon bomb attack included two brothers who went to cheer on a friend, and each lost a leg, their mother told the Boston Globe.Liz Norden told the newspaper she was home when she got a call on her cellphone from her younger son, who was in an ambulance."Ma, I'm hurt real bad," the 31-year-old told Norden.He said his older brother was standing next to him when one of ...
A Boston couple and an eyewitness who ran toward the scene after two bombs detonated near the finish line at the Boston Marathon on Monday described a chaotic mix of catastrophic injuries and strangers racing to help one another. Tom Meagher, a finish line coordinator who ran toward the explosions, detailed a "horrific blast" that almost knocked him to the ground. "I turned and saw a huge wave of ...
The eight-year-old boy killed in the sudden blasts at the Boston Marathon was Martin Richard of Dorchester, Mass.Richard was at the race to watch his father cross the finish line, NBC affiliate WHDH reported. The boy's mother and father were identified as William and Denise Richard by the Boston Globe. The boy's mother and his six-year-old sister were reported to have been seriously injured in the...
It’s an iconic image that captures a moment when one Boston Marathon bystander became much more.With blood-soaked hands and wearing a cowboy hat, Carlos Arredondo helps rush a young man in a wheelchair to safety after explosions turned Monday’s race into a disaster scene.He appears to be pinching closed a severed artery protruding from the victim’s thigh, stanching the flow of blood from a torn an...
A U.S. Marine helicopter's "hard landing" near the North Korean border left 21 service members injured early Tuesday, officials said.The CH-53E Super Stallion chopper was "conducting routine flight operations" during an exercise near South Korea's Jipo-ri Range at the time of the incident, according to a military statement.All 21 personnel aboard were hospitalized but 15 were treated and released....
A magnitude-4.3 earthquake shook Oklahoma early Tuesday, the United States Geological Survey reported.The quake struck at 12:56 a.m. local time (1:56 a.m. ET) around 30 miles northeast of Oklahoma City. It was measured at a depth of 3.1 miles, the USGS said.A small earthquake of magnitude 3.0 preceded the temblor, and two small tremors with magnitudes of 2.8 and 3.3 rattled nearby within 20 minute...
For the doctors, cops and other emergency personnel who responded to the Boston marathon bombings Monday, it was nothing less than a war zone, disaster experts say.The explosive devices that shattered the festivities of the iconic event were filled with shrapnel, law enforcement experts told NBC News, and they caused injuries and other effects as devastating as any seen on far-flung battlefields.“...
Monday's Boston Marathon bombing prompted expressions of sympathy from humanity's farthest-flung outpost: the International Space Station."Our crew just heard about the horrible events at the Boston Marathon," the space station's commander, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, wrote in a Twitter update. "We all pass along our condolences and thoughts to everyone affected."Later, Hadfield tweeted a p...
As runners and their loved ones fled bomb blasts that tore apart the finish of the Boston Marathon on Monday, many were taken in by locals who offered them shelter, food and a comforting hand.Ali Hatfield, who traveled from Kansas City with two friends to run in the race, said she was touched when a mother brought her daughter out to offer help as the trio and their families wandered the streets ...
A 63-year-old man burned in his car outside a Long Beach 7-Eleven, possibly as retribution for spurning a homeless man, has died.The victim, who was identified as Jerry Payne of Long Beach, died about 2 a.m. Monday at the hospital, according to the Long Beach Police Department.See photo, original report at NBCLosAngeles.comRaymond Sean Clark, a 38-year-old homeless man, was arrested on suspici...
