Darren McCollester/Getty Images(BOSTON) -- Among the many unanswered questions about the two Tsarnaev brothers accused of the Boston Marathon bombing is why, days after the attack, they were heading to the suburb of Watertown and its manicured lawns and tulips when police picked up their trail and began a chase.

Investigators want to know what drew the accused bombers to the cluster of side streets in the blue-collar suburb, far from any major thoroughfare, especially if the brothers were on the run after their images had been shown on television by the FBI...

ABC News(PHOENIX) -- The death penalty phase of the Jodi Arias trial was cut short Monday after Arias' defense attorneys erupted in confrontational arguments with the judge and prosecutor and said they could not continue defending her.

The jury was expecting to hear character testimony from Arias' friends Monday as part the defense's bid to present mitigating factors to the jury and convince it to sentence her with leniency. But before that could happen, lead defense attorney Kirk Nurmi asked for a mistrial and for permission to withdraw from the case, citing prosecutorial misconduct....

Pennsylvania State Police(PHILADELPHIA) -- Matthew Royer, 21, a University of Rhode Island student, has disappeared on his way home from the school for summer vacation.

Authorities have said they believe he made it within 30 miles of his Pennsylvania home before falling off the grid.

Royer was last seen on Thursday, May 16 on the University of Rhode Island campus. The college junior had moved out of his apartment and returned the keys, according to ABC News' Philadelphia station WPVI.  The last known communication was with his mother, Janet Royer, at around 6 p.m....

ABCWhether it was Taylor Swift winning a bunch of awards or Justin Bieber pleading his case to be taken seriously as an artist, the Billboard Music Awards received a boost in ratings from the year before.

The three-hour ABC telecast, hosted in Las Vegas by former 30 Rock star Tracy Morgan, averaged 9.5 million viewers on Sunday night, according to Deadline. That’s a 28-percent increase from the 2012 ceremony.

Taylor was the big winner, taking eight awards including Artist of the Year, while her latest release, RED, took Top Billboard 200 Album honors. Kacey Musgraves...

ABCThis week, a new Dancing with the Stars champion will be crowned. The finals begin Monday night with the four remaining couples -- Jacoby Jones and Karina Smirnoff, Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough, Aly Raisman and Mark Ballas, and Zendaya and Val Chmerkovskiy -- stepping onto the dance floor to perform three times.

First, the duos will have to repeat a dance style as chosen by the judges. Next, the couples will take part in a "cha cha relay," in which they each dance to a different section of the same song. Finally, the pairs will...

Mercury NashvilleCountry Weekly has announced plans for its annual CMT Music Festival kickoff event, set for June 4.  Easton Corbin, Dustin Lynch, Greg Bates and Chris Janson are on the bill for the show, which will take place at Nashville's Hard Rock Café.

Proceeds from the show will benefit Musicians on Call in the organization's work to bring music to patients' bedsides.  Tickets are now on sale at StayClassy.org.

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