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Morning Edition provided 30 minutes of special news coverage including Mass. Gov. Deval Patrick's news conference. Mass transit service in the Boston area was suspended Friday morning. Drivers were being told to stay off the streets in Watertown. Businesses there were told not to open. Boston city officials asked residents to "please go home" and not congregate at bus stops or other places.

Authorities in the Boston area are searching for a suspect in Monday's bombings at the Boston marathon. David Greene and Steve Inskeep talk to NPR's Tom Gjelten and Fred Bever of member station WBUR for a status update.

Five stories that have North Texas talking: Czech Stop's serious contribution in the aftermath of the West explosion, the duality of life after losing a…

Joe Berti has had an unbelievable week. And one in which he’s counting his blessings that he's alive.On Monday, Berti finished running the Boston Marathon…

The Boy Scouts of America, with national headquarters in Irving, is proposing an end to its longstanding ban on gay scouts. It would however maintain a…

While there is still conflicting reports about how easily the new strain can be transmitted between humans, the CDC says early intervention is key.

France said discreet talks to free the family had been ongoing but that no ransom was paid.

The two suspects in Monday's deadly Boston Marathon explosions and the Thursday night murder of a police officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are brothers from a former Soviet republic who were in the United States legally for years and lived together in a Cambridge, Mass., apartment.

Tylenol may relieve more than physical pain; it may dull existential aches, too. Researchers say their work is consistent with a growing body of research that suggests the brain processes physical and emotional pain in similar ways.

The new Senate proposal to overhaul immigration policy is more than 800 pages long. Host Michel Martin gets a crash course on some of the details and what they mean for immigrants and the rest of the country. She's joined by immigration lawyer Sonia Ansari and Matt Barreto from the polling group, Latino Decisions.