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Two separate security issues at New York's LaGuardia and Boston Logan airports affected hundreds of passengers. Andy McKechnie tweeted the whole incident in Boston while sitting in a plane on the runway.

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8-year-old Martin Richard was near the finish line, waiting to give his father a hug for finishing the Boston Marathon, when he was killed in the explosion. Martin's mother, Denise, was hospitalized with 'grievous injuries,' The Times of London reported. She underwent surgery for an injury to her brain. Martin's 6-year-old sister, lost her leg in the blast, WHDH reported. The status of his father, William, has not been released. The family is from the Dorchester, Massachusetts area.

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The bombings at the Boston Marathon killed three people, including an 8-year-old boy waiting at the finish line to see his dad.  Several tribute videos have been put together for the victims of the blast and their families.  Beware, some graphic photos are included in these tributes.

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9 p.m. (EST): The final press conference of the day with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick, Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis and various other officials just concluded. The FBI is now leading investigations of the events. Davis confirmed that three people were killed in today's blasts.

CNN is reporting that one of the victims killed was an 8-year-old boy. The Wall Street Journal had reported that as many as five other unexploded devices were found around Boston, but investigators now doubt that they were actually bombs.

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Today is the day that New York gun owners can start registering guns that the state now deems "Assault Weapons" and the form can be obtained on the New York State Police website.  Gun owners will have

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One of my all-time favorite comedians, Jonathan Winters has died at age 87. When I think of comedy improvisation, Jonathan Winters heads the pack. And here's a local connection, Jonathan Winters was the voice of Schutlz & Dooley and all of the other mug characters in those classic Utica Club TV commercials.

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Usually when Facebook draws the ire of the collective internet it's because it's made a change to its format. But this time it's one of the social network giant's TV commercials that has the Web firing off a barrage of negative comments.

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Connecticut and Louisville each won national semifinals in New Orleans on Sunday night to advance to the 2013 NCAA women's national championship on Tuesday.

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Job growth appeared to slow drastically during March, as employers added 88,000 new jobs, down from 268,000 in February. The unemployment rate went down a tick, from 7.7 percent to 7.6, but that was due to a reduction in the labor force.

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A homeless man in Bloomington, Illinois is ready to spread the wealth.

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