While Marc Furcarile celebrates the next step in his recovery, he’s also reflecting on his unconventional ride to the hospital on April 15 — a ride that saved his life.
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The same man who inspired the hit country song “I Drive Your Truck” has organized an effort to make sure there’s a flag on every soldier’s grave at Massachusetts National Cemetery.
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The FBI in Washington confirms that an agent shot and killed a man in Orlando, Fla. last night who was being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombing investigation.
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A conversation Here & Now’s Alex Ashlock had with Paul Monti about his son Jared Monti, who was killed in Afghanistan, sparked a song that hit No. 1 on the country charts last month.
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We hear from a police officers who, days after the Boston Marathon bombing, was on the scene of a wild shootout in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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When a number of Massachusetts communities were on lockdown following the Marathon Bombings, some suburban moms gained a new understanding of the fear their inner-city counterparts live with all the time.
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The directors of the Boston Marathon are speaking out for the first time since the day of the bombings, as they make decisions about next year’s race, and runners who couldn’t finish.
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A lawyer says two of the three people newly arrested in the Boston Marathon bombing case are men originally from Kazakhstan who were friendly with suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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Derek Sanderson helped the Boston Bruins win two Stanley Cups, and at one time was the world’s highest paid athlete. He dated Playboy bunnies and had his own TV show. But the fortune and fame took a toll.
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New Yorker writer John Cassidy has a thought experiment: Imagine that the Boston Marathon bombers used assault rifles instead of bombs. What would have been different?
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The sequester budget cuts mean lower reimbursements for chemotherapy drugs for Medicare patients — a change that’s forcing some cancer clinics to turn away patients, in order to make ends meet.
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We usually talk to reporter Paul Eisenstein about cars, but when he mentioned he’d recently had a brush with death, we wanted to know more.
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The International Energy Agency is warning that unless nations take urgent action to reduce carbon dioxide levels, average temperatures on the earth could rise by more than nine degrees Fahrenheit.
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