Jury selection began Tuesday in the US federal trial of James "Whitey" Bulger, the notorious Boston gangster arrested in 2011 after 16 years on the lam and charged with 19 murders. The 83-year-old Bulger, the one-time ruthless leader of the Winter Hill Gang who figured on the FBI's 10 most wanted fugitives list, is also facing federal racketeering charges in the Boston courthouse. He appeared in court on Tuesday, clean-shaven and in street clothing -- dark, long-sleeved shirt, jeans and white sneakers -- not orange prison garb.

By Scott Malone BOSTON (Reuters) - The body of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev has been entombed and is no longer in the city of Worcester, Massachusetts, where it had been held at a funeral home, the Worcester Police Department said on Thursday. The police did not disclose where the body had been moved. "A courageous and compassionate individual came forward to provide the assistance to properly bury the deceased," said Worcester Police Sergeant Kerry Hazelhurst.

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (Reuters) - The security planning for last week's Boston Marathon, where two bombs went off killing three people and wounding 264, included preparation for such an emergency, a top Massachusetts public safety official said on Wednesday. "We spend months planning for the marathon. We did a tabletop exercise the week before that included a bombing scenario in it," Kurt Schwartz, the state's undersecretary for homeland security, told a panel at Harvard University.

Noisy celebrations erupted on the streets of Boston late Friday after the second suspected bomber of the city's famed marathon was arrested. Crowds lining streets cheered and applauded police as they packed up equipment and drove away from the house in the suburban town of Watertown where Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was detained. There were also festivities around Boylston Street in central Boston where bombs were left at the marathon finish line on Monday, killing three people and wounding 180.