boston.com:
>>Update, 7:56 p.m.: Transit police on-scene tell Boston.com that a shelter-in-place order is in effect for Boylston Street, and advise those nearby to stay away from windows.
Green Line service continues to bypass the Copley MBTA station
Bos Herald: The area near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Boylston Street has been cordoned off as police respond to suspicious bags left at the scene....Sadly, the alert hit around the same time as the Norden brothers, J.P. and Paul, were completing their team’s Hopkinton-to-Boston relay to raise funds for prosthetics. Both brothers lost a leg in last year’s attacks at the finish line. Now the double-decker bus they rode in is parked near the area.