David Crary

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Antonio DaSilva, of Woburn, Mass., cleans a mark made on the entrance to a building on Boylston Street in Boston, Wednesday, April 24, 2013. Businesses opened and traffic was allowed to flow all the way down Boylston Street on Wednesday morning for the first time since two explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 15. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Boston area honors slain MIT officer

David Crary, Rodrique Ngowi · April 24, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - This undated photo provided by Bill Richard shows his son, Martin Richard, in Boston. Martin Richard, 8, was the youngest of three people killed in the explosions at the finish line of the Boston Marathon Monday, April 15, 2013. A private funeral Mass, followed by burial, was held with immediate family attending Tuesday, April 23, 2013, for Martin Richard. No other details were provided.(AP Photo/Bill Richard)

As Boston buries its dead, more evidence gathered

David Crary, Denise Lavoie · April 23, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2013 file photo, James Oliver, left, hugs his brother and fellow Eagle Scout, Will Oliver, who is gay, as Will and other supporters carry four boxes filled with a petition to end the ban on gay scouts and leaders in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Under pressure over its long-standing ban on gays, the Boys Scouts of America is proposing to lift the ban for youth members but continue to exclude gays as adult leaders. The Scouts announced Friday, April 19, 2013 that the proposal would be submitted to the roughly 1,400 voting members of its National Council at a meeting in Texas the week of May 20, 2013. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Boy Scouts propose to lift gay ban for youth

David Crary · April 19, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this March 25, 2013 file photo, Kris Kitko leads chants of protest at an abortion-rights rally at the state Capitol in Bismarck, N.D. Rival legal teams, each well-financed and highly motivated, are girding for high-stakes court battles over the coming months on laws enacted in Arkansas and North Dakota that would impose the nation's toughest bans on abortion. The Arkansas law, approved March 6 when legislators overrode a veto by Democratic Gov. Mike Beebe, would ban most abortions from the 12th week of pregnancy onward. On March 26, North Dakota went even further, with Republican Gov. Jack Dalrymple signing a measure that would ban abortions as early as six weeks into a pregnancy, when a fetal heartbeat can first be detected. (AP Photo/James MacPherson, File)

Rivals prepare for legal battle over abortion bans

David Crary · March 31, 2013 4:00 am

FILE - In this Tuesday, March 5, 2013 file photo, Sen. Jason Rapert, R-Conway, right, greets Sen. Bobby J. Pierce, D-Sheridan, on the floor of the senate chamber at the Arkansas state Capitol in Little Rock, Ark. Pierce voted against an override of Gov. Mike Beebe's veto of Rapert's legislation that would ban most abortions from the 12th week of pregnancy onward. By adopting the nation's toughest abortion law in the face of certain legal challenge, Arkansas legislators have exposed sharp tactical divisions within the national anti-abortion movement. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

Anti-abortion groups divided over legal tactics

David Crary · March 7, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Feb. 4, 2013, photo Eagle Scout Will Oliver, from left, former Scoutmaster Greg Bourke, former den leader Jennifer Tyrrell and Eric Andresen, right, a parent of a gay scout deliver boxes filled with a petition to the statue in front of the Boy Scouts of America headquarters in Irving, Texas. The Boy Scouts of America's policy excluding gay members and leaders could be up for a vote as soon as Wednesday, when the organization's national executive board meets behind closed doors under intense pressure from several sides. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

Scouts delay decision on admitting gays until May

Nomaan Merchant, David Crary · February 6, 2013 5:00 am

FILE - In this Thursday, May 17, 2007 file photo, Richard Mahoney, right, Eugene Frye, center, and Michael, left, and others pray on the first day of Operation Rescue's 77-hour prayer vigil at Women's Health Care Services, a clinic operated by Dr. George Tiller, in Wichita, Kan. Tiller was one of the few remaining late-term abortion providers in the nation when he was murdered. (AP Photo/Larry W. Smith, File)

Roe v Wade: After 40 years, deep divide is legacy

David Crary · January 19, 2013 5:00 am

Marines tell spouses clubs: Admit same-sex spouses

David Crary · January 9, 2013 10:17 pm

In this June 2008 photo courtesy of the D'Jamoos family, Alexander D'Jamoos, center, poses with his adoptive parents, Michael and Helene D'Jamoos, and his younger brother, Marc, while on a family vacation in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Alexander, who was born with no legs, grew up in a Russian orphanage and was adopted after he came to a Texas hospital to have a prosthesis attached that enabled him to walk. He is angry over legislation pending in Moscow that would ban adoptions of Russian children by Americans. (AP Photo/Family photo, Sasha D'jamoos)

Proposed Russian ban dismays US adoption groups

David Crary · December 21, 2012 10:11 pm

New data: Child abuse drops for 5th straight year

David Crary · December 12, 2012 7:50 pm

APNewsBreak: Boy Scouts host anti-abuse forum

David Crary · October 31, 2012 8:56 pm

Politics and truth: Uneasy partners, easy enemies

David Crary · September 6, 2012 6:48 am