Articles filed under September 11
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Post 9/11 golden decade ending for defense companiesAug 21, 2011 5:11 am - NEW YORK — The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are winding down, Osama bin Laden is dead, and the federal government is deeply in debt. This spells the end of what was a go...
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Families of 9/11 victims mourn around the worldAug 21, 2011 5:11 am - In a Lithuanian cemetery, a world away from ground zero, the twin towers still stand. Vladimir Gavriushin lays white roses near the 6-foot granite replicas of the World ...
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9/11: Tragedy explored through TV showsAug 21, 2011 5:00 am - NEW YORK - There was bold talk right after 9/11 that TV would emerge from this trauma sadder but wiser. That TV would be steeled with a higher sense of purpose than had ...
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'Submission' looks at how 9/11 left U.S. fragmentedAug 16, 2011 12:15 pm - Having chosen a winning design for the World Trade Center memorial, a jury in New York opens the envelope with the architect's name and gets a shock: He is Muslim. Ten y...
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Obama: ‘Lone wolf’ terror attack biggest concernAug 16, 2011 12:00 am - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that a “lone wolf” terror attack in the U.S. is more likely than a major coordinated effort like the Sept. 11 attacks ne...
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Ten years later, air travelers feel the specter of 9/11 every dayAug 15, 2011 12:00 am - Five-year-old Frank Allocco is 37,000 feet above America, face pressed against the window. “Cool,” he says to his 6-year-old sister. “Francesca, look.” It’s their first ...
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Huntley women planning 9/11 memorial in Sun CityAug 14, 2011 12:00 am - When two airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center almost 10 years ago, Peg Mulhall of Huntley felt the need to do something. Although she went to church and prayed...
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From JFK to Sept. 11, conspiracy theories thriveAug 13, 2011 6:00 am - DALLAS — In Dealey Plaza, with the white “X” painted on the spot where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, ask anyone about the grassy knoll and the second gunma...
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Architect’s memorial moment arrivesAug 13, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — Architect Michael Arad first imagined the twin reflecting pools with cascading waterfalls — he calls them voids — as two empty spaces in the Hudson River, wes...
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10 years after 9/11, N.Y. responders communicate betterAug 13, 2011 6:00 am - NEW YORK — On Sept. 11, 2001, as firefighters rushed into the smoldering twin towers, their radios went dead. Police on the scene couldn’t hear orders from their superio...