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INDIANAPOLIS/CHICAGO - The torrential rain that has brought flooding to the Chicago area afflicted neighboring Indiana on Friday, closing schools and roads in the northern and central part of the state.Storms dumped more than four inches in parts of Indiana on Friday, and the National Weather Service has issued a flash flood warning for most of the state.See flood coverage from NBCChicago.com"...
One of the goals of terrorists is to strike at the economy of their targets. On Friday, the high-profile pursuit of suspects in Monday’s Boston bombing brought a city of 1 million with a normally vigorous economy to near standstill.After an overnight shootout with two suspects left one of them dead and another on the loose, authorities urged residents to “shelter in place” by staying at home.Publi...
Two hours after the Boston Marathon bombing, suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev tweeted, “Ain't no love in the heart of the city, stay safe people” – and a day later said he was “stress-free.”The Twitter account (handle: @J_tsar), which borrowed heavily from song lyrics by the likes of Eminem and Jay-Z, has not been active since Wednesday, when Tsarnaev retweeted a post by a Muslim scholar: “Attitude can ...
The family of missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, whose name was repeatedly blasted across social media as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, said it has been emotionally staggered by the erroneous reports.His sister, Sangeeta Tripathi, said the family was forced to temporarily freeze its "Help Us Find Sunil Tripathi" Facebook page after that site — beginning Thursday evening —...
The Boston Marathon bombing suspects may have been motivated by shame and hatred, their uncle said Friday at a raw, impromptu press conference.“Being losers, hatred to those who were able to settle themselves; these are the only reasons I can imagine of. Anything else, anything else to do with religion, with Islam – it’s a fraud, it’s a fake," Ruslan Tsarni said outside his home in Montomery Villa...
The family of missing Brown University student Sunil Tripathi, whose name was repeatedly blasted across social media late Thursday into early Friday as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, said it has been emotionally staggered by the erroneous reports and is eagerly awaiting official word from law enforcement clearing Tripathi, the man's sister told NBC News. The family was forced to tempora...
