Hannah's protagonist Freddie is attempting to make progress on her novel by working at the Boston Public Library, when she—along with three of the people she is sharing a table with—are transfixed by the sound of a woman screaming somewhere in the Library.

Dozens of explosions, apparently triggered by a natural gas pipeline rupture, rocked three communities near Boston, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others, prompting the evacuation of hundreds, local officials say.

Two Boston brothers accused of urinating on and beating a homeless Mexican man have been charged with hate crimes after being quoted by police as saying, "Donald Trump was right, all these illegals need to be deported."

An American Airlines pilot dies on his flight between Phoenix and Boston.

Two men have been arrested at the Pokemon World Championships venue in Boston, US, following a tip-off by the event's security staff.

A rat's forelimb has been grown in the lab from living cells. It may go down in history as the first step to creating real, biologically functional limbs for amputees.

Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is sentenced to death by US jury for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others.