All Boston residents have been ordered to stay in their homes as the search for the surviving suspect in the marathon bombings continues after a night of violence that left the other suspect - reportedly his brother - dead.

US PRESIDENT Barack Obama yesterday pursued a coast-to-coast campaign blitz through key battlegrounds, looking to energise Democrats and stave off a likely drubbing in elections barely two weeks off.

THE driver of Boston subway train that came to a screeching halt just before hitting a woman who had fallen onto the tracks has been hailed as a hero.

NIALL O’DOWD, when ‘reporting’ Hillary Clinton’s victory in the Massachusetts Democratic primary (February 10), grossly exaggerated the weight of it.