Biological and Chemical Weapons

City and county first responders and local officials participated Wednesday in a mock disaster drill for a possible nerve gas leak at Blue Grass Army Depot in Madison County. Fire departments, law enforcement and governmental agencies met at the...

Even as Libya's rebels prepare to attack the last remaining strongholds of former dictator Muammar Gadhafi, disturbing reports have surfaced of widespread looting at weapons caches abandoned by his retreating forces. The regime's stockpiles included...

At the height of the depression, 17,000 Great War veterans and their families, dubbed the Bonus  Army, encamped near Washington, DC to demand that the government make good on its promise to allow WWI servicemen to borrow on their Certificates of Service,...

Ricin: The ricin terror plot foiled this week by law enforcement casts a spotlight on ricin, a highly toxic poison that is cheap, easy obtained and quite deadly....

El-Kikhia, who fled Libya in 1980, received his undergraduate degree in political science from the American University of Beirut and a master of arts and Ph.D. in international relations from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author...

He roamed the University of Cincinnati campus with a loaded gun. When his rage overflowed, the brainy microbiology major would open fire inside empty buildings, visualizing a wall clock or other object as a person who had done him wrong. By the mid-...

On Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi troops invaded neighboring Kuwait, beginning the Persian Gulf War. A ground assault on the Iraqis, led by British and American forces, began Feb. 23, 1991. On Feb. 26, Iraqi troops began retreating from Kuwait, and on Feb. 28,...

LANCASTER — The Garrard County Ambulance Service headquarters on Stanford Road recently got a little roomier, thanks to a $210,000 expansion. The expansion, which was completed a few weeks ago, doubles the size of the ambulance service’s...

This "rough edit" transcript comes from WTTW-Ch. 11, which hosted the event: Phil Ponce: IT IS ONE OF THE MOST CLOSELY WATCHED POLITICAL RACES IN THE COUNTRY AND IF POLLS ARE ANY INDICATION, IT MAY BE ONE OF THE TIGHTEST.......

Residents chanted "Kadafi out" and "Free Libya" on the streets of Zawiya, 30 miles west of Tripoli, as anti-government forces deployed tanks and anti-aircraft weapons Sunday, according to the Associated Press. The protests come as leaders in the eastern...

Japan released the Chinese fishing boat captain Saturday whose detention after straying into disputed waters had enraged Beijing and sparked the worst diplomatic crisis between the long-contentious neighbors in years. Zhan Qixiong flew out of Ishigaki...