For the first time, prosecutors in the Boston Marathon bombing case confirmed that deceased suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev was accused of participating in a gruesome 2011 triple homicide outside Boston.

(CNN) -- The Bay Area Rapid Transit strike ended Monday night after union negotiators and management reached a late-night deal.

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- If you're able to connect to the Obamacare website and enroll -- a big if -- healthcare.gov actually isn't the worst website in the world.

PHILADELPHIA (CNN) -- Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday that it has become clear new strategies are needed to deal with how police respond to "active shooter" situations -- those in which someone with a gun is still on the scene and firing at victims.

A statewide review was ordered Thursday of Florida's prison records to determine whether anyone has filed forged documents like the ones used in an elaborate escape. Charles Walker and Joseph Jenkins, both 34, are considered "escapees" by authorities after investigators discovered forged motions to reduce their respective sentences and forged court orders granting the request, according to authorities.

Peter Willcox of Norwalk, Connecticut, is the sole American citizen in a group of Greenpeace activists  charged with piracy in Russia

Transit workers in California's Bay Area went on strike Friday for the second time in three months -- a move that will once again hamper the commutes of thousands

A federal agent will be allowed to write a book with an insider's account of Operation Fast and Furious, But John Dodson, an agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, won't be allowed to make money on the book.

(CNN) -- Maxine Powell, the mentor behind the smooth success and individual charm of Motown Records' stars for almost five decades, died Monday, the Detroit Free Press reported. She was 98.

Twitter users can now let any person, company or, presumably, drunken green monster send them private messages on the site.