September 11 attacks

Final piece of spire is hoisted to the roof of One World Trade Center during construction, New York City. (AP Photo)

US flag-covered spire hoisted to NY’s WTC roof

NEW YORK (AP) — A crane has hoisted a U.S. flag covered spire to the top of New York’s One World Trade Center, under construction at the site of the Sept. 11 attacks. Construction workers […]

2013/05/02

No remains found near suspected 9/11 airplane part

NEW YORK (AP) — Police used a pulley system on Wednesday to remove a suspected 9/11 plane part from between two buildings near the World Trade Center site, and the medical examiner said no potential human remains had been found there.

2013/05/01

Search for human remains at 9/11 plane debris site

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York City medical examiner’s office says its workers are now sifting soil for possible human remains at a site near the World Trade Center where a plane part was found last week.

2013/04/30

Wing part from one of the airplanes that crashed into the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, New York City. (AP Photo)

Jet part found last week in NYC is from wing

NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities now say a 5-foot part that’s believed to be from a hijacked 9/11 World Trade Center jetliner came from a wing.

2013/04/29

Blank memorial California Specialty License Plates (AP Photo)

Calif. families want chance at 9/11 scholarships

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Many of the relatives of Californians killed in the Sept. 11 attacks say they never knew that millions of dollars were raised in their name for college scholarships. Now lawmakers want to give them another chance to apply for the money.

2013/04/24

Knives of all sizes and types are piled, among the items discarded at security checkpoints (AP Photo)

Feds delay policy to allow small knives on planes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Airline passengers will have to leave their knives at home after all. And their bats and golf clubs. A policy change scheduled to go into effect this week allowing those items onto airliners will be delayed.

2013/04/23

Firefighters conduct search and rescue operations at destroyed apartment complex near fertilizer plant explosion, West, Texas. (AP Photo)

Crews seek survivors, bodies after Texas blast

WEST, Texas (AP) — Rescuers searched the smoking remnants of a Texas farm town Thursday for survivors of a thunderous fertilizer plant explosion, gingerly checking smashed houses and apartments for anyone still trapped in debris.

2013/04/18

Members of Los Angeles Sheriffs Counter Terrorism unit at L.A. Union Station (AP Photo)

Defiance, tenderness, wariness in wake of Boston

(AP) — Strains of defiance, tenderness and wariness are interwoven as Americans do some post-9-11 rebalancing in the aftermath of the Boston bombings, figuring out how to move forward with life while remaining vigilant against the threat of terrorism.

2013/04/17

Ricin: A bioterror agent with few real victims

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ever since the anthrax and terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the poison ricin has at times been lumped in with other bioterrorism agents because it comes from a relatively common plant and seems easy to make.

2013/04/17

Boston TV coverage a reel of constant chaos

NEW YORK (AP) — Television is a visual medium, and when news producers get video illustrating a major story like the Boston marathon explosions, their job is to put it on the air.

2013/04/16

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