Websites link people after blasts

CHICAGO — Far-flung family members, co-workers and friends frantically used social media, cellphones and even a “people finder” website Monday to try to learn the fate of participants and spectators at the Boston Marathon, where three people were killed and dozens injured after a pair of bombs exploded near the finish line of one of the world’s great races.

Aircraft crash lands Sunday after leaving Mesquite

A pilot from Sunriver, Ore., had just taken off from the airport in Mesquite on Sunday when he felt a vibration, noticed an engine surge and saw his vintage aircraft lose its propeller.

Southern Nevadans, participating in Boston Marathon, relate explosion aftermath

It sounded like thunder. “It was like the loudest kind of thunder you ever heard,” Marcus Smith said of the explosions during Monday’s Boston Marathon. Smith and his wife, Chelsey Smith, one of about 40 runners from Southern Nevada in the race, were walking to a gym for her post-race shower when the first boom filled the air.

 
Three dead, more than 140 injured in Boston bombings

Two bombs exploded near the crowded finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday, killing two people and injuring more than 50 others in a terrifying scene of broken glass, smoke and severed limbs, authorities said. A third blast rocked the John F. Kennedy Library a few miles away and more than an hour later, but no injuries were reported, the police commissioner said. New reports suggest that the library incident might be unrelated. A senior U.S. intelligence official said two other explosive devices were found near the marathon finish line.

It’s a windy, dusty Monday

High winds are sweeping into the Las Vegas Valley, depositing layers of dust and allergens.

Boulder City officials fire police chief

Boulder City Police Chief Thomas Finn has been fired. Finn said city administrators told him the news at 7 a.m. Monday when he returned to work following a medical leave that began Jan. 16. Finn’s removal comes after months of controversy regarding how his police department handled a Mongols motorcycle rally in Boulder City last year.

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