Some two dozen police and federal agents spent the morning in an apartment search that began after dawn this morning. 

A jury took less than an hour to convict inmate Byron Scherf of strangling Monroe corrections officer Jayme Biendel. Next week: the death penalty phase of the trial.

Seattle police say one officer was injured when he was hit by an object that was thrown near Minor and Pine shortly after 8 p.m. The extent of the officer’s injuries was not immediately known.

A good percentage have been cleared for release but we are doing nothing.

Judy Clarke, a well-known death penalty lawyer, will be part of the team defending Boston suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Clarke was the executive director of the Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington and Idaho in Spokane from 1992 to 2002. 

The Colorado Court of Appeals decided Thursday that marijuana users don't have job protection. 

"I started getting facials from Zubeidat Tsarnaeva six years ago when I was 17 at a spa in the Boston area."

An official said the throat wound suffered by Dzokhar Tsarnaev appears to have been self-inflicted.

"As a young lawyer at the Center for Constitutional Rights, I was often the beneficiary of Lewis’s storytelling. In the late 1980s and through the 1990s I represented several men and women whom the government sought to deport for their political affiliations or ideas, often on the basis of secret evidence that they had no opportunity to confront or rebut."

"When MIT Police Chief John DiFava heard that a very promising young officer named Sean Collier probably would get a call he had long been hoping for — an invitation to join the Somerville Police Department — the chief pushed him to stay."