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　　The young man accused of lying to federal agents investigating the Boston Marathon bombing has been ordered free on bail. NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports he will be living at home and wearing a tracking device.

 

　　Law enforcement officials have arrested three college friends of the only surviving suspect in last month's attack. Robel Phillipos is a 19-year-old American who had known Dzhokhar Tsarnaev since high school. Law enforcement officials say he lied to FBI agents about throwing away a backpack that contained evidence linking Tsarnaev to the attacks. Tsarnaev is in the prison hospital accused of staging a marathon bombing with his brother. A judge in Boston released Phillipos on a $100,000 bonds on a condition that he be under a custody of his mother and wear a GPS bracelet. Phillipos is scheduled to be back in court May 16th. Dina Temple-Raston, NPR News.

 

　　Meanwhile, a funeral director’s having a tough time finding a Boston area cemetery. Federal accept the remains of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, Dzhokhar's older brother who's killed in a gun battle with police sate after the attack. Officials in Cambridge where Tsarnaev lived are worried about unrest if he's buried in the area. Some residents say there's another way send Tsarnaev's body to Russia, his native homeland. The community activist William Bro is asking officials to make it happen.

 

　　"We need the federal gunman to skip in this expatiated. They can do a quit when they're running to clakas they appear very quickly. When a situation gets sticky, nobody is around. I see no comments from elected officials. That's deciding."

 

　　Governor Deval Patrick declines to say whether Tsarnaev's body should be allowed to be buried in Massachusetts. He says it's a family issue. That should be resolved soon.

 

　　US Secretary of State John Kerry is heading to Moscow today to try once again to persuade Russia to help resolve the crisis in Syria diplomatically. NPR's Michele Kelemen will be travelling along with them.

 

　　Kerry is to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin and to have a lot of issues on their plate. Syria will be one of them. The Israeli's strike over the weekend and the charges of chemical weapons used are urgency in the talks. The US, Russia and other major powers agreed last year to promote a political transition in Syria. But State Department officials say they've never been able to operationalize this. Kerry will try to, as one official puts it, taking other steps on it with Russia because the events on the ground in Syria have become steadily worse. Asking about the allegation that rebels may have used sarin gas in Syria, an official says the USA has no information to suggest that Syrian rebels have the capability or the intention to use such weapon. Michele Kelemen, NPR News, the state department.

 

　　Before the closing bell, Dow was down 5 points at 14, 969; NASDAQ was up 14 and the S&P 500 gaining 4.

 

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　　Investigators are trying to determine what caused a stretch limousine to burst into flame as it was crossing a bridge over the San Francisco Bay Saturday. Five women including a new bride were killed, several others were treated for burns. The Associated Press cites investigators are saying a limo was killing one two many passengers. But the officials are not saying over clouding was a factor.

 

　　A Utah prosecutor say he will decide within the next couple of days what charges to a teenager accused of punching a soccer referee who died Saturday after a week's coma. Authorities say the 17-year-old struck Ricardo Portillo in a head during a soccer match after he called a penalty. The referee eventually died days later.

 

　　A digitized trader trode Earnest Hemingway's paper in personal affects has been transferred from his home in Cuba to the John F. Kennedy Library. The result that's an unusual collection between US base foundation and the Cuban government. NPR's Lynn Neary has more.

 

　　In 2004, Jenny Phillips, granddaughter of Hemingway, editor, Maxwell Perkins, visited Finca Vigia, the state near Havana where Hemingway lived for more than 20 years. The house is contained ni collected. So, Phillip started a foundation to save the place where Hemingway had written some of his greatest books. Today the Finca Vigia Foundation announced 2,000 of Hemingway's papers have been digitized and donated to the Kennedy Library in Boston. The documents include letters, passport, even bar bills and grocery list. What Phillips calls the x writer's life that make up one big puzzle. It's not includes any manuscripts, though in earlier similar effort uncovering utinity ending to for home the bill toll.

 

　　Lynn Neary reporting.