NYC mayor says suspects planned attack

The suspects “intended to drive to New York and detonate additional explosives in Times Square,” Mayor Michael Bloomberg said.

Boston Marathon bombing victim Heather Abbott, 38, of Newport, R.I.

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Bombing victim says amputation was ‘best option’

After doctors had tried for nearly a week to save her foot, injured in the blasts on Marathon Monday, Heather Abbott gave the go-ahead to amputate.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Prosecutors expect charges against Tsarnaev in officer’s slaying

Middlesex County prosecutors are working to build a murder case against accused bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev in the shooting death of Sean Collier.

Malden cab driver Jim Duggan.

Cab driver believes he had encounter with bomb suspects

A local taxi driver said he believes he had the Marathon bombing suspects in his cab, and even picked up an unusually heavy backpack.

Russia says suspect had no contact with terror groups

The statements could bolster theories that Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, were acting on their own when they allegedly planted bombs at the Marathon.

FBI searches landfill in bombing investigation

A New Bedford landfill was searched as part of the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings.

Boston Mayor Thomas Menino ate at Solas Irish Pub at the Lenox Hotel on Boylston street.

Mayor Menino has lunch on Boylston Street

While visiting Solas, an Irish bar at the Lenox Hotel, Mayor Thomas Menino said he was excited to see the crowds in Copley Square.

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The Rhode Island medical examiner’s office says a body found in Providence is that of Sunil Tripathi, missing since last month.

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THEATER

ART’s ‘Glass Menagerie’ is Broadway-bound

John Tiffany’s “The Glass Menagerie,” starring Cherry Jones as Amanda Wingfield, is going to Broadway with its original cast.

Hormone causes cells lost to diabetes to multiply, researchers find

Harvard researchers hope the discovery will lead to a drug that can replace or augment daily insulin injections.

US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel spoke with reporters after reading a statement on chemical weapon use in Syria during a press conference in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Syrian chemical weapons use would cross ‘red line’

US intelligence has concluded with ‘‘varying confidence’’ that the Syrian government has used sarin gas as a weapon in its civil war.

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More coverage of the bombings

Running shoes hung from a barrier at a makeshift memorial in Copley Square on Boylston Street.

At bomb sites, talk of lasting tribute

Boston officials will work with the victims of the Marathon bombings to find a way to memorialize the attack.

After being closed as a result of last week’s bombings, the famed Trinity Church at Copley Square reopened its doors at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Steps from bombing sites, churches offer serenity

Trinity Church and Old South Church reopened and hundreds of visitors reflected on the mayhem that took three lives only steps away.

Opinion on the bombings

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Boston Police Officer Mike Duggan repositioned a barrier as the city conducted a cleanup of Boylston Street on Tuesday.

The new normal?

Recovery from a terrorist attack can be orderly and efficient. Step by step, we are following an emerging pattern.

Sports

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Robert Woods of USC might offer the best chance at instant impact for the Patriots.

Patriots should draft a wide receiver

The Patriots need instant impact at the position, and tonight they should find a viable receiver in the draft.

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Former Massachusetts Probation Department head John J. O’Brien in Suffolk Superior Court on April 5.

17 bribery counts for ex-head of probation O’Brien

A new federal indictment charges John J. O’Brien with bribing top state legislators by giving jobs to their supporters.

Politics

House approves $34 billion spending plan

The fiscal 2014 budget is balanced with new taxes and withdrawals from state reserves, on a party-line 127-29 vote.

Nation & World

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President Barack Obama (from left) stood alongside former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, and Jimmy Carter during the dedication ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas.

Obama calls younger Bush ‘a good man’

Barack Obama joined all of the living former presidents today to dedicate the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

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FAA administrator Michael Huerta testified Wednesday before a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee about recent flight delays at US airports.

Obama may accept bill ending FAA furloughs

Federal Aviation Administration furloughs are blamed for lengthy delays affecting airline passengers.

Arts

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The week ahead: Theater, galleries and museums

A guide to area performances and exhibits, including “Rethinking Tradition’’ at the Society of Arts and Crafts.

Style

Guests at the recent Huntington Theatre Company’s spring gala, which included a silent auction.

When tragedy strikes, event planners are faced with a wrenching decision

Across Boston, party planners are wrestling with the question of how to handle their lighthearted and celebratory affairs as memorial services take place.

Opinion

“Reasserting the rule of law over this case is an important step toward moving beyond a warlike mentality.”

Juliette Kayyem 

Magazine

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Homestead act
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Greetings from Gun Valley
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The complete guide to Boston’s food trucks
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A living room design for grown-ups

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Attend a talk and reception with journalist Priyanka Borpujari on how powerful corporations and the Indian government are displacing indigenous peoples and sparking a rebellion.

Ideas

“What we felt this week, the collective vulnerability, is an exact reflection of what makes cities work in the first place, what makes them productive, and vital, and almost unimaginably resilient.”

Stephen Heuser, on the vulnerability of an open city