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Sunday, April 28, 2013  The House Intelligence Committee chairman says Syria's suspected use of chemical weapons against its own people is troubling but adds that he is also worried about those weapons falling into the wrong hands after President Bashar Assad is driven from power.

Tuesday, April 23, 2013  Muslims at the Islamic Society of Central New York are reacting now that U.S. officials have determined that the Boston bombing suspects were motivated by a radical brand of Islam.

Friday, April 19, 2013  The second brother was hiding under a tarp in a boat parked in a backyard of Watertown, Massachusetts.

Friday, April 19, 2013  Shots fired in the Watertown, Massachusetts area following "stay indoors" order was lifted by police.

Friday, April 19, 2013  NBC News and the AP have learned more information about the men suspected of carrying out the bombing attack on the Boston Marathon. Police say they are also responsible for a deadly string of incidents outside Boston overnight.

Friday, April 19, 2013  Key moments related to the search for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, based on reports from the Middlesex County district attorney, Massachusetts State Police, and Boston police.

Friday, April 19, 2013  Authorities have identified the transit police officer severely wounded in a shootout with the Boston Marathon bombing suspects.

Friday, April 19, 2013  One suspect is dead and another is still at large after a chaotic incident involving gunshots and explosions in Watertown, Massachusetts, according to the Boston Police

Tuesday, April 16, 2013  President Barack Obama says the explosions at the Boston Marathon are being investigated as an act of terror, although authorities still don't know who is responsible.

Monday, April 15, 2013  The head of an extremist Jordanian Muslim Salafi group says he's "happy to see the horror in America" after the explosions in Boston

Tuesday, March 05, 2013  Airline passengers will be allowed to carry small knives, souvenir baseball bats, golf clubs and other sports equipment on planes beginning next month.

Wednesday, January 30, 2013  Joining the police department's 1,200-plus officers for Super Bowl week are more than 200 state troopers and about 100 officers from surrounding local jurisdictions.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012  New York's highest court says street gangsters that commit assaults and murders are not terrorists under the statute enacted after hijackers crashed jets into the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Monday, October 08, 2012  Shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, New York passed a law making it a crime to intimidate a civilian population through violence.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012  The U.S. Ambassador to Libya may have visited the rebuilt Pan Am 103 Wall of Remembrance on the Syracuse University had he not been killed by rebels overseas.