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Senate Hearing Looks at Lessons Learned in Response to Boston Marathon Bombings
Ten years after the Boston Marathon bombings, federal lawmakers hoping to study the response looked into what we learned that day.
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Senate Hears Lessons From Boston Marathon Bombings, 10 Years Later
Ten years after the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, a U.S. Senate subcommittee held a hearing to discuss what the law enforcement community has learned. The man who led the Boston Police Department at the time, Ed Davis, is among those who testified about how the 2013 attack has affected emergency preparedness at the Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs’…
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Senate to Hear Lessons Learned From Boston Marathon Bombings
Some of the top law enforcement officials working during the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, including former Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis, will testify in the U.S. Senate Wednesday about how the attack affected emergency preparedness in the country. Also testifying at the subcommittee hearing, “Lessons Learned: 10 Years Since the Boston Marathon Bombings,” will be Rich Serino, who was…
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A Love Story Born From Tragedy on April 15, 2013
A Boston firefighter fell for the woman he was trying to save at the Boston Marathon bombings; they have been together ever since.
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A Firefighter Picked a Woman Up Off the Street During the Marathon Bombing. It Became a Love Story
When Boston Firefighter Mike Materia first spotted Roseann Sdoia, she was badly hurt from the second blast and was lying in the middle of Boylston Street. But spoiler alert, this is a real-life romance with a storybook ending.
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Andruzzi Family Reflects on Boston Marathon Bombings and Last Decade of Helping Others
The start to the Boston Marathon in 2013 was all smiles for former New England Patriots guard Joe Andruzzi, his namesake Joe Andruzzi Foundation, and his wife, Jen, who has run the race five times. “It was a beautiful day. It was very nice out. It was warm. I remember when we were standing at the finish line, the sun…
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Andruzzi Family Reflects 10 Years After Boston Marathon Bombings
Former New England Patriots guard Joe Andruzzi and his wife, Jen, were at the Boston Marathon in 2013 when the bombs went off, springing into action to help.
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10 Years His Brush With Death, Dic Donohue Is Still Mending
Former Transit Police Officer Dic Donohue nearly died in a shootout in Watertown during the search for the Marathon bombing suspects. Today, he’s still recovering, but happy to be alive.
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10 Years After His Brush With Death, Dic Donohue Is Still Mending
Now retired, MBTA Transit Police Officer Dic Donohue almost lost his life during the manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombers. He sat down with NBC10 Boston at home to reflect on the past 10 years, how his life has changed and the impact the bombings had on the work he’s doing today. He still hasn’t fully recovered, and may...
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Former Boston PD Commissioner on Coping With Marathon Tragedy
Not only did former Commissioner Bill Evans run the marathon that year, he responded to the finish line and also helped to find the bombers in Watertown.
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He and His Brother Lost Their Legs in the Bombing. ‘Now, We Get to Help a Lot of People'
Ten years ago, the lives of two brothers from Stoneham, Massachusetts, changed forever. J.P. and Paul Norden each lost a leg in the bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line. In the decade since, they have gained so much more. “In a lot of ways of ways, it changed me for the better,” J.P. said It’s that positive outlook...
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How the Marathon Bombings Put a New Hospital to the Ultimate Test
The doors to the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital weren’t open yet when the Boston Marathon bombings occurred. Spaulding was in the process of moving into a new location in Charlestown, and it would be another 12 days after the attack before staff and patients would be working in the state-of the art facility. Those first few weeks represented a steep learning…
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Looking Back on Spaulding Rehab's Role in Helping Boston Marathon Bombing Survivors Recover
After the bombs went off at the Boston Marathon finish line nearly 10 years ago, a different kind of race began as medical professionals aided those injured.
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Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor Is Changing the Lives of Other Amputees
Bombing Marathon Bombing survivor Heather Abbott turned her trauma into inspiration with the Heather Abbott Foundation, which raises money to help amputees with the cost of prosthetics “When I lost my leg, some of the questions I had when I was sitting in the hospital bed, were things like, ‘what kind of shoes am I going to be able...
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Memory of MIT Officer Killed by Boston Marathon Bombers Kept Alive Through Nonprofit
In the years since the Boston Marathon bombings, various organizations have been created to honor the memory of lives lost and those impacted. One of those is the Officer Sean A. Collier Memorial Fund. Named in honor of Sean Collier, an officer with the MIT Police Department killed by the bombers following the attack at the finish line, it aims…
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Sean Collier Memorial Fund Impacts Kids in Lowell
Ten years after the death of MIT Police officer Sean Collier at the hands of the Boston Marathon bombers, a fund in his name aims to benefit children and the families of fallen officers.
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Boston Marathon Bombing Survivor Heather Abbott Is Changing the Lives of Other Amputees
Every year Boston Marathon Bombing survivor Heather Abbott hosts a watch party at the finish line. A spot to cheer on the runners who are raising money to help other amputees. But that also brings Abbott back to the place that forever changed her life. “When I lost my leg, some of the questions I had when I was...
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Boston Strong: A Decade of Hope After the Boston Marathon Bombing
It’s been 10 years since bombs went off near the Boston Marathon finish line on April 15, 2013, killing three spectators and wounding hundreds of others. The immediate aftermath would claim the life of a police officer. But the city stayed Boston strong. As we mark the anniversary, we’re sharing stories of the survivors and first responders on the ground…
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New Documentary Examines Whether Boston Marathon Bombings Were Preventable
What if the 2013 bombing of the Boston Marathon was preventable? A new three-part docuseries set to premier on Labor Day on Hulu, “The Murders Before the Marathon,” will examine the connection between the bombings and a triple homicide in Waltham in 2011 that remains unsolved — a case which, if properly vetted, it’s argued, could have taken one of…
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Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Seeks Stay of Execution
Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is once again seeking to delay his execution for his role in the bombing that killed three people near the finish line of the marathon in 2013. The Supreme Court reinstated the death sentence for Tsarnaev last month. The justices, by a 6-3 vote, agreed with the Biden administration’s arguments that a federal appeals court was...