On Friday, a federal appeals court in Massachusetts overturned the death sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the man convicted of killing three people and injuring more than 260 others in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. In a 224-page opinion, the three-judge panel of the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the lower court to hold …
The last surviving man bomber of Birmingham’s 16th Avenue Baptist Church in 1963 has died in prison, Alabama Gov Kay Ivey said Friday in a statement. “While serving a life sentence, Thomas Edwin Blanton, Jr., the last surviving 16th Street Baptist Church bomber, has passed away from natural causes. His role in the hateful act on …
Authorities in Texas believe residents can breathe a sigh of relief after finding what they are calling a recorded “confession” from the accused serial bomber who has terrorized the state’s capital in recent weeks. Following news Wednesday morning that Mark Anthony Conditt had been killed in an explosion inside his vehicle as police closed in …
“We are not 100 percent convinced there’s not other devices out there.”
UPDATE: Austin bomber blows self up; fears of more explosives remain Original Story: The capital of Texas was rocked by yet another explosion Tuesday evening, according to reports. As KXAS reported a Goodwill store in southern Austin was the site of the latest incident, which reportedly injured one person. Massive police response to new explosion …
By PAUL J. WEBER and WILL WEISSERT, Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Investigators pursuing a suspected serial bomber in the Texas capital shifted their attention Tuesday to a FedEx shipping center near San Antonio where a package exploded on a conveyor belt in the middle of the night and caused minor injuries to a worker. …
NEW YORK (AP) — The bombs were left on porches, then by the side of the road, then at a FedEx facility. The victims were black, then Hispanic, then white. The targets were in different parts of Austin, Texas, and then in San Antonio. The seemingly zigzag work of an apparent serial bomber may be …
