Jack Richmond was a young father when his leg was crushed in a work accident. Though in denial at first that it would need to be amputated, he quickly realized he could share his experience to help other amputees, as he tells his daughter, Reagan, on a visit to StoryCorps.
The scene in suburban Boston early Friday was chaotic. Steve Inskeep and David Greene talk with NPR's Jeff Brady and WBUR reporter Fred Bever for the latest on the Boston Marathon bombings investigation.
Many areas in Boston are on lock down as authorities continue the hunt for one of two Russian-born brothers of Chechen background. For details, David Greene talks to Jeff Brady.
David Greene and Steve Inskeep talk to David Boeri of member station WBUR, NPR's Dina Temple-Raston and Zolan Young, an intern at The Boston Globe, about the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing.
For the latest on the Boston Marathon Bombing case, David Greene and Steve Inskeep talk to Fred Bever of member station WBUR and Chechen expert Thomas de Waal of the Carnegie Endowment for International peace
FBI and SWAT teams are trying to locate a suspect in Monday's bombing at the Boston Marathon. The other suspect, his brother, was killed earlier in a shootout with police. Dr. David Schoenfeld of Beth Israel Hospital talks about Thursday night's police action in Watertown.
In Washington's Ward 7, where only 33 percent of students graduate from high school, a program called Life Pieces to Masterpieces is sending nearly 100 percent of its graduates to college or post-secondary education.
The FBI is interested in two men seen in videos and photographs at Monday's Boston Marathon before two bombs went off. Investigators released photographs and asked the public to help identify the men on Thursday. Robert Siegel talks to Dina Temple-Raston has the latest.