Trace Boston Marathon Pressure Cooker Bomb

The bombs that ripped through the crowd at the Boston Marathon were fashioned out of pressure cookers and packed with metal shards, nails and ball bearings to inflict maximum carnage, a person briefed on the investigation said Tuesday.

They hurled a pressure cooker bomb as a decoy

Doctors say they removed a host of sharp objects from children and adults injured by the Boston Marathon explosions.
Eyewitness saw suspects use grenades and pressure-cooker bomb

"We've removed BBs and we've removed nails from kids. Two children remain in critical condition at the hospital with serious leg injuries. Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital also say they removed metal fragments from victims of the two bombs. Massachusetts General treated 31 victims of the bombs.

Residents have described the terrifying scenes in Watertown at a shootout between the two Boston marathon terror suspects and police, which left one officer dead.

It is believed the two suspects held a hostage for half an hour while police pursued the car to Watertown, where explosives were thrown from the car at police and gunfire was exchanged, a statement said.

Gunshot, gunshot, gunshot  gunshot. 'About 70 or 80 yards down the street was six police vehicles. There was a long exchange of gunfire and shooters had hand guns.'
It covered the street with smoke.

Peter Jennings, 33, said he woke to the sound of an explosion just before 1am at home on Prentiss Street in Watertown.

I looked out the window, and it was like nothing I’ve ever seen – blue light after blue light after blue light.’

There were about 10 cop cars, they took a left on Mount Auburn Street heading toward Galen Street.’
Residents of Watertown and surrounding neihbourhoods of Waltham, Newton, Belmont, Cambridge and Allston Brighton have been instructed by the Boston Police Department to stay at home and to not answer their doors unless instructed by a police officer.

Bombers who killed three people at the Boston Marathon Monday used a pressure cooker pot that's widely available for as little as $140 from major retail stores to house at least one of the explosives.

Investigators said Tuesday they had recovered a mangled Fagor brand pressure cooker pot, shrapnel, a circuit board and wiring from what they said was a partially exploded device near the finish line. 

Two bombs exploded Monday, but investigators said there was not enough evidence to determine if the second bomb was also built from a pressure cooker.

DesLauriers said then investigators have received "voluminous" tips and brought in additional evidence response teams to help deal with the massive workload.

Key developments in Boston marathon explosion investigation

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An officer carries a child away from an area where a suspect was hiding on Franklin Street on Friday, April 19, in Watertown, Massachusetts. After a car chase and shootout with police, one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed by police early Friday, and his brother and second suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, was taken into custody Friday night. The two men are suspects in the bombings at the Boston Marathon on April 15, that killed three people and wounded at least 170. 
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 Residents flee from an area where a suspect was hiding on Franklin Street on April 19.
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 Officers approach an area where a suspect was hiding on April 19.
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 People react while watching police respond to reported gunfire on April 19.
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 An ambulance carries Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, from the scene after he was apprehended in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19.
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 An image posted to the social sharing website Reddit purports to show suspect Dzhokar Tsarnaev being detained by law enforcement officers.
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 Police SWAT teams leave the area after apprehending the suspect in a yard where he was hiding in a dry-docked boat on April 19. 
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 Members of a police SWAT team run to the scene where the suspect was hiding on April 19.
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Police converge near the scene where the bombing suspect was hiding.
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 SWAT team members run toward a police assault on a house as gunfire erupts on April 19.
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 Family members react after police SWAT teams assaulted a house on their street on April 19.
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 Police officers search house to house for the second suspect in a neighborhood of Watertown, Massachusetts, on Friday. 
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 Members of a family who fled the scene near where the suspect was hiding talk with the authorities on Friday.
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 Law enforcement officials evacuate people away from the area where the suspect was hiding.
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 Police move in to the area where the suspect was hiding on Friday in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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 SWAT team members move down residential streets as they perform door-to-door searches in Watertown, Massachusetts, on April 19.
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 SWAT team members talk with Watertown, Massachusetts, residents while conducting door-to-door searches on April 19.
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 A Watertown police vehicle with bullet holes in its body and a shattered windshield is towed out of the search area on April 19 in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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 SWAT teams prepare to enter a home as they continue the door-to-door search.
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 SWAT teams continue the ongoing manhunt in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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 source: CNN

Complete lineup comes with a Rolling Stones joke

It was supposed to be a sure thing. The Rolling Stones, celebrating their 50th anniversary, were coming to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

The evidence was all there -- or so a bunch of amateur detectives believed. First, a purported screenshot from the Rolling Stones smartphone app listed the desert city of Indio among the band%u2019s dates in mid-December.

When asked, any member of the Rolling Stones would plead ignorance, but then what was believed to be the smoking gun arrived. On Jan. 3, Goldenvoice posted a photo on its social networking site of a stone in a field. What do stones do? They roll. Done. Boom. Booked.

Pop & Hiss was among the publications that wrote about the photo, taking it to mean that a Rolling Stones announcement was imminent. Again, the band, whenever asked, pleaded ignorance. And then Mick Jagger began flat-out denying that the band would be at Coachella.

Shortly after unveiling the Coachella lineup Thursday night -- one that features Blur, the Stone Roses, Phoenix, the Red Hot Chili Peppers and no members of the Rolling Stones -- Goldenvoice poked a bit of fun at all those who thought the promoter was dishing out hints and clues about its lineup.

The Jan. 3 photo was, as some in this newsroom (ahem) pointed out, nothing more than a picture of a polo ball in a polo field. Coachella, after all, has taken place on the grounds of the Empire Polo Club since its 1999 inception. One hour after posting the lineup, Goldenvoice finally clarified the matter with some handy arrows.
 
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