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BOSTON — People who lost loved ones or were injured in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings are clamoring for justice as jury selection gets under way in one of the nation's most closely watched federal death penalty cases in two decades.

Seating jurors in the case against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was set to begin today under tight security at the federal courthouse in Boston and could take several weeks.

Jurors will be chosen from a pool of about 1,200. They will decide whether Tsarnaev planned and carried out the twin bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260 near the finish line of the race on April 15, 2013.

If they find him guilty, they also will decide whether he should be put to death. Survivors and first responders are among those expected to testify.

NEW YORK — A 70-year-old hedge fund founder has been found shot dead inside his Manhattan apartment.Police say Thomas Gilbert was shot in the head at his Beekman Place residence on the East Side. He was pronounced dead at the scene.Police said early today they were questioning his 30-year-old son, Thomas Gilbert Jr. No charges have been filed.Police say a handgun was found near the body.The elder Gilbert founded Wainscott Capital Partners Fund in 2011. The fund has $200 million in assets and focuses on the biotech and health care industries.

LONG BEACH, Calif. — A 3-week-old baby who was abducted after her parents and an uncle were wounded in a shooting at a Long Beach residence has been found dead and authorities are searching for a suspect.The identification of Eliza Delacruz came after detectives from Long Beach traveled to San Diego County to help authorities investigate the discovery of remains found in a dumpster Sunday behind an Imperial Beach strip mall.“The suspect who committed these horrific crimes” remains on the loose, Long Beach police said in a statement.The 10-pound child had been declared missing when police went to the home Saturday evening after receiving a call about the shooting and found two brothers and the baby's mother with gunshot wounds.Two victims remained hospitalized in critical but stable condition Sunday. The other was treated and released.

SAN FRANCISCO — Hundreds of air travelers landed in San Francisco, safe but irritated after a 28-hour overseas flight they say included 12 hours on a tarmac in the Middle East without food or accurate flight information.Tempers grew short on Etihad Airways Flight 183 when fog in the city of Abu Dhabi delayed takeoff for a half-day, passengers said.“They kept telling us that we were going to leave, you know 15 minutes from now, 20 minutes from now, 30 minutes for now, for 12 hours,” passenger Thomas Piani told reporters.Passengers said the flight crew told them the Abu Dhabi airport was too crowded with other stranded flights to allow them to get off the plane to wait.“Everybody was fighting with each other, and the flight attendants were fighting with us, and we were fighting with the flight attendants,” passenger Venkatesh Pahwa said.

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