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spot not too far from the finish line to shoot runners as they concluded their 26.1-mile run. The area was less congested and over the years he learned that the men and women in the lead there usually went on to win.
• With his Nikon, Leonard snapped about 10 to 20 photos a minute Monday, capturing group after group of finishing runners and the crowds lining the route.
• Three days later, when the FBI released images of the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing, Leonard used the time stamp shown on them to narrow his search of the hundreds of photos he had took that day. He realized that he, too, had photos of the faces of the two men authorities were searching for.
• He uploaded them to the FBI and Friday morning, he saw his cropped photos all over the morning news.
• "That finally gave them a good facial picture," the 58-year-old electrical engineer said. "It was a pretty good breakthrough."
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• WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barak Obama said victims of the Boston Marathon explosions still deserve to know the motives and the planning behind the deadly blasts, even as he acknowledged that the capture of a second suspect in Boston brought to a close a trying five days for his presidency and for the nation.
• "All in all it's been a tough week," he said. "But we've seen the character of our country once more."
• The marathon blasts and the hunt for the suspects that both terrorized Boston and captivated the country were the predominant worries at the White House. But the capture of one suspect Friday, following the death in a shootout of another, capped a frenzied week in Boston, Washington and elsewhere around the country.
• A massive explosion leveled a Texas fertilizer plant Wednesday, leaving at least 14 people dead, 200 injured and a staggering 60 others still unaccounted. On Tuesday, letters addressed to Obama and to a U.S. senator were found to contain traces of poisonous ricin. An Elvis impersonator was arrested and charged with threatening the president's life.
• "I'm confident that we have the courage and the resilience and the sprit to overcome these challenges and to go forward," Obama said late Friday at the White House, just over an hour after law-enforcement officials apprehended 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as a suspect in Monday's explosions at Boston's venerable

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