Region runners react to blasts at iconic race's finish

There were about 20 runners from Northwest Indiana competing Monday in the 117th Boston Marathon overshadowed by a terrorist attack.

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Jeremy Bush places flowers and a stuffed animal at a makeshift memorial Saturday in front of a home where a sinkhole opened up underneath a bedroom late Thursday evening and swallowed his brother Jeffrey Bush in Seffner, Fla.

Work continues near sinkhole that swallowed man

SEFFNER, Fla. | Engineers worked gingerly Saturday morning to find out more about a slowly growing sinkhole that swallowed a Florida man in his bedroom, believing the entire house could eventually succumb to the unstable ground.

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Pedestrians walk by police tape Saturday on the MIT Campus in Cambridge, Mass.,after police responded to reports of a gunman on campus that Cambridge police later said were unfounded.

Authorities: Report of gunman at MIT was a hoax

BOSTON | Authorities say a report of a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was a hoax and there is no threat to public safety.

6 leaking tanks are Hanford nuke site's latest woe

YAKIMA, Wash. | Federal and state officials say six underground tanks holding a brew of radioactive and toxic waste are leaking at the country's most contaminated nuclear site in south-central Washington, raising concerns about delays for emptying the aging tanks.

Woman charged with murder in NY subway shove death

NY woman charged in connection with slaying of 2

WEBSTER, N.Y. | The neighbor of a convicted felon who ambushed firefighters on Christmas Eve, killing two, bought the guns for him and lied to the seller, knowing that he wasn't allowed to have them, authorities said Friday.

Power returning after Sandy but gas problems rise

NEW YORK | More New Yorkers got power Saturday for the first time since Superstorm Sandy struck the region, but frustrations mounted over gasoline shortages as refueling sites turned into traffic jams of horn-honking confusion.

Power returning after Sandy but gas problems rise

New Jersey state troopers keep order Saturday as motorists line up to purchase gasoline at the Thomas A. Edison service area on the New Jersey Turnpike near Woodbridge, N.J. From storm-scarred New Jersey to parts of Connecticut, a widespread lack of gasoline added to the frustration since Su…