BOSTON (CBS/AP) – Three additional suspects were arrested Wednesday in the Boston Marathon bombings investigation. All three were friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and attended UMass-Dartmouth with him. The charges are related to incidents after the bombings and interfering with investigators. THE SUSPECTS Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, 19, both of New Bedford, are charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice by conspiring to destroy, conceal [...]

BOSTON, MS.— The Boston Bruins and Pittsburgh Penguins have canceled their morning skates because of the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers. Bruins spokesman Matt Chmura said there’s no announcement yet on whether to proceed with Friday night’s NHL game. The Boston Red Sox are also on hold for their night game against the Kansas City Royals. Red Sox spokesman [...]

HOUSTON (AP)- A Texas fertilizer plant that exploded, killing up to fifteen people was required by the state to have sprinklers and other safety mechanisms. The plant exploded twenty miles west of the city Waco, Texas last night resulting in injured and deaths.  Waco police say that they are still searching buildings for civilians and for the missing fire fighters. [...]

Boston (AP)- Following the tragedies that happened at the Boston Marathon, there are some reluctant updates. With the Boston marathon still under investigation, homeland security officials say that the FBI is in the process of investigating two males that appeared in the videos of the bombing. The two males who are getting interviewed may be possible suspects but there is [...]

WASHINGTON- The senate plans to vote on two amendments to a gun control bill on Thursday. One of them would improve federal mental health programs. On Wednesday, senators rejected broader federal backgroud checks and bans on assualt weapons and high-capacity ammunition magazines. President Obama and other gun control supporters say that the Senate’s rejection won’t stop them in their fight to [...]

WASHINGTON- A Mississippi man is being accused of sending letters containing poison in them, including a letter to President Barack Obama. Two letters postmarked out of Memphis, Tenn., one to President Obama, and the other to Senator Roger Wicker,were intercepted at off-site mail facilities, and tested positive for Ricin. In the letters read: “To see a wrong and not expose [...]

ST. CLOUD, Minn. – The AP is reporting today that there are still no suspects in the bombing of the Boston Marathon, or a motive as to why it was bombed in the first place, which has killed three people and injured over 170 others.  Seventeen of those injured are currently in critical condition at hospitals in the Boston area.  [...]

BOSTON (AP) — Two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing two people and injuring at least 23 others in a terrifying scene of broken glass, smoke and severed limbs, authorities said. A third blast rocked the John F. Kennedy Library several miles away and more than an hour later, but no injuries were [...]

ST. CLOUD, Minn- The Group Minnesota for Marriage will be meeting Friday Evening at Tobie’s Restaurant in Hinckley to hold a rally against gay marriage. The chief political group opposed to legal gay marriage in Minnesota will be holding several rallies across that state in the immediate future in Hermantown, Grand Rapids, Brainerd, Detroit Lakes, Morris, Eden Prairie, Owatonna, Austin [...]

The owner of a local business doesn’t have to follow all parts of the new federal healthcare law — at least for the time being. Catholic deacon Greg Hall, owner of American Manufacturing Company in St. Joseph, has been given reprieve from providing contraception as part of his employee’s health plan. This break will last until two other Minnesota cases [...]