BOSTON — Prosecutors say the immunity claim of reputed Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger is “absurd.”

BOSTON — For 90 minutes last Thursday night, a 27-year-old entrepreneur was trapped in his own car with the two suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings.

The manhunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects will not soon be forgotten. We listen back to the sounds that marked that day.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Richard Donohue Jr., who was badly injured in last week’s shootout with the marathon bombing suspects, has “his sense of humor back” and is recovering nicely, according to his brother.

BOSTON — The indictment charges John O’Brien with 17 counts of bribing state legislators by giving jobs to their supporters, friends and relatives in exchange for boosts to his department’s budget and other political favors.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Sunil Tripathi’s body was found Tuesday by members of the Brown crew team in waters off India Point Park in Providence.

BOSTON — The investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings is continuing on many fronts. Boston Police officials offered new details on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON — In the years before the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev fell under the influence of a new friend, a Muslim convert who steered the religiously apathetic young man toward a strict strain of Islam, family members said.

BOSTON — At the Rev. Julia Dunbar’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, they’ve treated bombing victims — and now the suspects of the attack.

BOSTON — Gov. Deval Patrick has appointed Marian Ryan to the post of Middlesex district attorney, filling the seat left vacant by the resignation of Gerald Leone.

BOSTON — Lu Lingzi was remembered as a smart student, a small-town girl who dreamed of becoming a financial analyst.

BOSTON — The widescale law enforcement response to all of the marathon bombing-related incidents will become the basis of future training activities.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — One of the alleged Marathon bombers, Tamarlan Tsarnaev, called attention to himself during one prayer service earlier this year.

BOSTON — The surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, has not been read his Miranda rights, which would inform him of his right to an attorney and to not to self incriminate.