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This Weekend in Sports: The Kentucky Derby and Mayweather – Guerrero

The first jewel of horse racing's Triple Crown and the world's best boxer's first fight in a year highlight the upcoming sports calendar. Here's what to watch this weekend:
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5 Ways to Get Your Kids Excited About the Backyard: Swings, Climbing Walls and More

If you want to get your kids outside, away from their Xbox or Wii, and interested in some of your backyard garden projects, you’ll probably need to be somewhat inventive with your gardening ideas. Pulling weeds and planting flowerbeds just won’t cut it for most of children. Think incentive here.

We have some ideas.

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Boston Deals With Aftermath Of Marathon Explosions
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Three New Suspects in Boston Marathon Bombing Taken Into Custody [UPDATED]

UPDATE 2:25 p.m. EST: The suspects' names are Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos. From The Boston Globe:
Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both 19 and of New Bedford, were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice by plotting to dispose of a laptop computer and a backpack containing fireworks belonging to bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the US attorney’s office said in a statement.

Robel Phillipos, 19, of Cambridge was charged with making false statements to law enforcement officials in a terorism investigation, prosecutors said.
12:10 p.m. EST: According to Boston.com, the three suspects went to school at UMass-Dartmouth with Dzhokar Tsarnaev and may have helped him in the days immediately following the bombing, which was on April 15. Two of the suspects have been charged with overstaying their student visas.

The Boston Police Department announced that it has taken into custody three new suspects as a result of its ongoing investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing.

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Congrats To Our TC Americans 25th Anniversary Collage Winner!

Boy, did a LOT of you enter! Thanks!

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Get Your Racing Fix This Weekend at Hermiston Super Oval!

Hermiston Super Oval (formerly Columbia Motor Speedway) blows open its doors this weekend with one of the biggest invitational late-model races in the Pacific Northwest!

The promoters/operators of the highly-successful Spokane Raceway Park took over the Hermiston track over the winter and the effect has been remarkable

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Kings relocation to Seattle unlikely
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NBA Says No to Return of Seattle SuperSonics

The hopes of relocating the struggling Sacramento Kings to Seattle took a big hit Monday.

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Motorcycle Hill-Climbing Coming to Tri-Cities! – See Northwest Nitro Nationals [VIDEO]

The Northwest Nitro Nationals are coming to the Columbia Basin this weekend. If you've never seen it in person it's CRAZY!

Riders will attempt to wrestle their motorcycles up a mammoth hill that gets steeper as they go. A wide range of classes

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Police Celebrate Capture of Marathon Bombing Suspect
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Boston Marathon Bombers: One Suspect Captured; One Dead [UPDATED]

The second suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing has been captured. Dzokhar Tsarnaev was taken into police custody Friday night -- five days after the bombing that left three dead and left more than 100 injured, police said. The 19-year-old was apprehended after a manhunt that began Thursday night with the fatal shooting of an MIT officer and extended into the evening hours on Friday.

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Where Are the Best Places to Shoot Guns in the Mid-Columbia?

Who else remembers going to the shooting range with their dad at eleven years old? I do. We would head down to Hole in the Wall and he would show me how to use his Glock -- or sometimes we would head out to Badger Canyon and up into the hills to find a nice spot to unleash the double barrel on an old broke-down computer monitor we didn't need anymore. Needless to say they were good times and great bonding moments with my father. Now I'd like to take my kids out to a good range and show them how to shoot too, but the times have changed. Where are the best places to go shooting and take your family?

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FBI investigates Boston Marathon
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Conflicting Reports Regarding a Possible Arrest in Boston Bombings [UPDATED]

2:45 p.m. (EST): The Boston Police Department has announced that "there has not been an arrest in the Marathon attack." Investigations are ongoing.

2:35 p.m.: CNN is retracting their previous report that an arrest has been made in the Boston Marathon bombings. Other sources are reporting that officials are close to identifying a suspect after reviewing area surveillance video, but no arrests have been made.

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