Boston Marathon Bombing Trial to Begin

Boston will revisit some of its worst memories on Wednesday when federal prosecutors begin laying out their case against accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Tsarnaev, 21, is charged with killing three people and injuring 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs, packed with nails and ball bearings, that ripped through thousands of onlookers crowded at the race's finish line on April 15, 2013. He could be sentenced to death if convicted of charges that...

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