My 9.11
NEW YORK — Standing in my living room, I got the word simultaneously over the telephone and radio: A commercial airliner had just slammed into the World Trade Center. I ran upstairs, exchanged my shoes for boots and threw some underwear and socks into a backpack with my press credentials, laptop, a pair of sunglasses and a map of Manhattan. I ran to the end of my street, hailed a cab and got in. Things had already gotten much worse…Covering History
9.11 For Loved Ones, Long Wait Turns to Test of Hope
NEW YORK — As rescuers listened for signs of life in the rubble of the World Trade Center on Wednesday, hospital workers and family and friends of the victims agreed that waiting was the hard part. That, and remembering…9.11 Loved Ones Wait
9.11 President Bush Tours Ruins
NEW YORK — Gearing up for war against global terrorists, President Bush on Friday authorized calling to active duty thousands of reservists, then flew here to rally workers digging in the rain-soaked ruins of the World Trade Center…9.11 Bush Tours Ruins
9.11 Ground Zero
NEW YORK — Burger King is police headquarters; the Men’s Warehouse a first-aid station. If you need a break, the Salvation Army is at Starbucks. One blast of the siren means standby; three, get out. This is what TV named “ground zero” and what rescue workers call “the pit.” …9.11 Ground Zero
9.11 4 Months Later
NEW YORK — The smell is no longer unbearable, not enough now to hold your nose. But it catches in the throat with the dust, and the mind insists, against all conscious instruction, on identifying its morbid contents. …9.11 4 Months Later
9.11 1 Year Later
NEW YORK — In many ways, New York has come back to life since Sept. 11. Yet as the nation prepares to mark the first anniversary of the terrorist attacks this week, the city is still burying its dead. And although the dust and stench have been scrubbed from the streets, grief still suffocates…Remembering 9.11- Firefighter funeral
Witnesses Recall 9.11 Terrorist Attacks on First Anniversary
NEW YORK — Pete Hamill had finished his latest novel the night before Sept. 11 and planned to take his wife to lunch to celebrate. Instead, the New York Daily News columnist found himself in lower Manhattan, staring into the gutter at the remnants of someone else’s morning — an unopened bottle of V-8 Splash, a cheese danish in a cellophane wrapper and a woman’s black shoe, sticky with blood…9.11 Witnesses
Racist Guilty in Jasper Dragging Murder
JASPER, Texas — A young white supremacist who dreamed of launching his own hate group was convicted of capital murder for chaining James Byrd Jr., a disabled black man, to a pickup and dragging him to his gruesome death in the East Texas woods…Jasper- King Verdict
Oklahoma Tornado: A 6-Year-old’s Story
BRIDGE CREEK, Okla. — When the wind stopped, Jordan Wiese’s mom was gone. “I should have held on tighter,” the 6-year-old later told his grandma. But a kindergartner’s grip is nothing against the fury of…Oklahoma tornado
Mourning Fans Make Selena Pilgrimage
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – Thousands of emotional mourners said goodbye to their Tejano queen on Sunday, winding their way along the city’s picturesque bay into the convention center where the body of Selena Quintanilla Perez lay in a closed black coffin surrounded by white roses… Selena Murder
A Hero Returns
Astronaut John Glenn to Become Oldest Human in Space
NEW CONCORD, Ohio – Grand Central Station stopped. Young and old, in living rooms around the globe, were glued to radio and TV. And outside John Glenn’s childhood home in New Concord, Ohio, concerned friends and neighbors and hundreds of anxious reporters waited on shifting feet, ruining Clara Glenn’s lawn. That was 1962. Now, decades after becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, Glenn prepares to return to space…Glenn’s Return
Teacher Fatally Shot on Last Day of School
SHEPHERD, Texas — A 24-year-old teacher was gunned down in the parking lot of an elementary school Wednesday as students were arriving for their last day of class. Police say the killer was the woman’s ex-boyfriend, free on bond after trying to shoot her in the head earlier this year …Teacher Shooting