Ball State men’s basketball head coach James Whitford has made his first addition en route to building a coaching staff.
A 19-year-old college student wanted in the Boston Marathon bombings was taken into custody Friday evening after a manhunt that left the city virtually paralyzed and his older brother and accomplice dead. Police announced via Twitter that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was in custody. His brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan, was killed Friday in a furious attempt to escape police.
The suspect being hunted in the Boston Marathon bombing was in a boat stored in Watertown, a law enforcement official said, and police in armored vehicles and tactical gear rushed into the neighborhood. The burst of activity came after police announced that they were scaling back the hunt because they had come up empty-handed following an all-day search that sent thousands of SWAT team officers into the streets and paralyzed the metropolitan area. A hail of gunfire was heard from the neighborhood, followed by a round of blasts about an hour later.
The Red Sox and the Bruins both scrapped their games. The famous Bull Market at Faneuil Hall was closed, and there were more pigeons than tourists on City Hall Plaza.
DENVER — As tens of thousands of people gather to celebrate and smoke marijuana in Denver, police will be out in full force.
Several state highways in the Greenfield District are closed due to flooding conditions, according to a press release by the Indiana Department of Transportation.
Massachusetts state police say they believe the sole surviving Boston bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is still in the state because of his ties to the area.
ZIONSVILLE, Ind. — Strong overnight storms that dumped up to 5 inches of rain flooded rivers, streams and streets across Indiana on Friday, forcing nearly 100 people from their homes and prompting officials in two counties to declare local emergencies.
WEST, Texas — The bodies of 12 people have been recovered from the remnants of a tiny Texas farm town that was rocked by a roaring explosion at a fertilizer plant, authorities said Friday, confirming for the first time the number of people who perished in the accident.
NEW YORK — Mass transportation to and from the Boston area was virtually shut down Friday as police conducted a massive manhunt for a suspect in Monday's Boston Marathon bombing. The exception was air travel, as planes took off and landed at Logan International Airport.
The FBI is investigating whether the fatal shooting of a campus police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and gunfire and explosions in a nearby town are related to the Boston Marathon bombings.
When a 911 caller told Southern California police Thursday that there were bombs at two state universities, one campus decided to evacuate thousands of students while the other quietly conducted searches, allowing business to continue as usual.
A teenager said he is scared to go outside after he was portrayed on the Internet and on the front page of the New York Post as connected to the deadly Boston Marathon bombings.
The FBI has released photos of two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings and is asking for the public's help in identifying them.
MUNCIE, Ind. — A man living with his family at a former Girl Scout camp that is now a nature preserve faces charges alleging that he operated a methamphetamine lab at the central Indiana site.
Ball State athletics will soon announce a plan for a new volleyball and basketball practice facility, along with the possibility of other improved sports facilities.
KAUFMAN, Texas — A former justice of the peace has been charged with murder in the slayings of a North Texas district attorney and his assistant who prosecuted him for theft, officials announced Thursday.
ST. LOUIS — Middle America was overwhelmed by weather Thursday, with snow in the north, tornadoes in the Plains, and torrential rains that caused floods and transportation woes — and a sinkhole in Chicago.
