RUNNING: Former U.S. Olympic bronze medalist Lynn Jennings of Portland, Ore., will be the featured speaker at two Fit-n-Fun middle school assemblies Wednesday in Duluth and Superior.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD: The St. Scholastica men's and women's track and field teams both set two programs records but finished second to St. Norbert in the team standings on Saturday at the St. Norbert College Invite in De Pere, Wis.

COLLEGE TRACK AND FIELD: Bolstered by eight individual first-place finishes and three relay championships, Minnesota Duluth captured both the men's and women's team titles at Saturday's Carleton Relays in Northfield, Minn.

Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick has asked residents to observe a moment of silence at 1:50 p.m. CDT today, the time the first of the two bombs exploded near the finish line.

RUNNING: When Joe Moore first heard about Monday's bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon, his thoughts flashed back to 17 years ago when he watched his father, Marc, run the 100th edition of the storied race.

Scott Keenan, executive director of Duluth's Grandma's Marathon, is trying to balance the events in Boston with preparations for his own race. "We have a tremendous amount of work ahead of us," he said last week after saying security measures at the J...