Oklahoma City Bombing (1995)

Several TV networks will commemorate the 10th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, with news specials, live coverage from Ground Zero, films and special episodes of scripted series. Many of those specials begin this week, and I've tried...

Berkeley landscape architect Peter Walker has designed bigger projects than the 9/11 memorial in New York, but probably none has carried more weight. The opening of the eight-acre plaza Sunday marks 10 years since the terrorist attacks, and almost as many...

Many Americans spent the weekend remembering those lost in the horror of the Sept. 11 attacks. While the TV screen was full of those who were closest to the destruction of the day, and recounting the losses of loved ones and honoring them, it was hard for...

The first California election that Kim Alexander cast a ballot in was a pip; voters decided 16 state propositions -- on creating a state lottery, capping welfare, limiting campaign contributions -- and gave their former governor, Ronald Reagan, a second...

The Chambersburg Borough Council on Monday delayed its vote on land development plans to expand the Franklin County (Pa.) Courthouse complex and make it more secure. Councilwoman Sharon Bigler asked for an artist’s rendering of the project,...

Over the years, I've run across a fair bit of prejudice against lawyers. I'll not suggest that lawyers don't earn a certain amount of disdain, but when a white, tobacco-chewing, sheriff implied that if I came through his county after dark I'd never...

In 1994, the Republicans took back the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. The significance of that victory is hard for some younger people to appreciate, as the parties now seem to rotate power. The House then was the Democratic...

A new therapy is using people’s own cells to give them a more youthful look. It is called LaViv. Dr. Greg Chernoff from Indianapolis is one of only four doctors in the nation approved to offer the therapy. “The process involves taking a...

The arrest this week of four Georgia men charged with plotting to attack government officials with explosives and a biotoxin raises the question of just how big of a threat are homegrown terrorists in the United States? While security experts obviously...

A Norwegian farmer goes on the attack.  His weapon of choice?  Six tons of fertilizer, among other things.  That's according to the latest reports on the attacks in Oslo, Norway.  Yesterday, seven people were killed in an explosion and another 90 were...

I don't even want to say the animal's name. As a matter of fact, I think that's what should happen to murderers, terrorists and assassins. They should lose their names and be given a number, as in "146728 was the crazy guy who killed all those people in...

Sixteen years ago, I was one of The Times writers assigned to cover the Oklahoma City bombing. It was one of those wrenching stories that stand out in a reportorial memory that now extends back more than four decades, partly because my assignment was to...