BOSTON (AP) — Many of Boston's shops and outdoor cafes are beginning to re-open. But there are signs everywhere that a return to normalcy will take time for the thousands of people who live and work near the site of the marathon bombings...
Cheyenne resident and runner Jennifer Hanrahan had to overcome an ankle injury and surgery to get to this years Boston Marathon and nothing was going to stop her.
For anybody to run a full marathon in under three hours and finish in the top one percent of racers is pretty impressive but to do it while wearing flip flops? That might just make the record book.
A 55-year-old Maryland man was running in the Baltimore marathon when he suffered a heart attack just 200 feet from the finish line. He collapsed in a sea of runners when blockage stopped his heart beat, but other racers came to his aid, and staff from the medical tent a few yards away were at his side in just moments to revive him.