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UPI - Sun Nov 1, 10:35 am ET
NEW YORK, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- A 26-year-old man is suspected of torching a New York chapel containing the remains of victims of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center attack, officials said.
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CNN - Sun Nov 1, 1:39 am ET
A man faces charges of arson after he allegedly set fire to a section of Memorial Park, which houses the remains of victims of September 11, 2001, attacks, police said Saturday.
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The Inquisitr - Sun Nov 1, 6:13 pm ET
New York, NY (AHN) – A section of Memorial Park, which houses the remains of 9/11 victims, was set on fire Saturday morning. Police arrested a 26-year-old man in connection with the alleged arson. Brian Schroeder will likely face criminal mischief and arson charges. Memorial Park is a large white tent in east midtown Manhattan. The remains [...]
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Gothamist - Mon Nov 2, 10:29 am ET
The Harvard Law School grad suspected of setting a fire inside a memorial for unidentified victims of the 9/11 terrorist attacks claims he was drugged before he torched the shrine. A lawyer representing 26-year-old Brian Schroeder said someone might have "put something in his drink" before the 26-year-old Ivy Leaguer — who moved to New York to accept a job at a law firm — set a blaze that ...
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U.S. Marine Corps - Sun Nov 8, 4:58 pm ET
Overlooking the site where eight years ago nearly 3,000 innocent people were murdered in the terror attacks of 9/11, three Marines were promoted and four dedicated another four years of their lives to serve and protect the nation Wednesday.
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The Register Citizen - Mon Nov 9, 2:13 am ET
KENT — First Selectman Ruth Epstein has 10 days left in office, but they are not turning out to be peaceful ones. Even as she prepares to turn the reins of town government over to newly elected First Selectman Bruce Adams, her Democratic colleague on the current Board of Selectmen, Epstein finds herself at the center of a firestorm of controversy over the town’s refusal to erect a small monument ...
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Valley Independent - Fri Nov 6, 7:00 pm ET
Campbell Peterson was 5 and his brother, Peyton, was only 1 when United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field in Somerset County, killing everyone aboard, including their grandfather and step-grandmother, on Sept. 11, 2001.
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The Emory Wheel - Mon Nov 9, 10:44 pm ET
Emory Religious Life and the Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Life hosted a discussion yesterday about faith and sexual identity after showing “Saint of 9/11,” a documentary film about a gay chaplain who died helping 9/11 victims out of the burning Twin Towers.
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The Hill - Thu Nov 5, 1:06 pm ET
Senate Republicans seeking to block civilian trials for Sept. 11, 2001, conspirators received a boost Thursday. Read more...
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Foreign Policy Blogs - Mon Nov 9, 6:07 pm ET
U2 and Bon Jovi, Hillary Clinton and Lech Walesa, Placido Domingo, Mikhail Gorbachev and Henry Kissinger. They were all on hand in Berlin today to mark the 2oth Anniversary of the rupture of the Berlin Wall. Of all the shattering events in German history that took place on November 9th — the execution of Robert [...]
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WTKR Norfolk - Tue Nov 3, 11:55 am ET
"I still get chills every time I walk on board this ship."
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The Progress - Tue Nov 10, 2:08 am ET
The Essex Fells and Caldwell Fire Department served as honor guards Saturday, Sept. 12, during the transportation of part of the World Trade Center from Perth Amboy to Virginia. The local fire companies volunteered their service and equipment after the 9/11 attack.
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Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune - Fri Nov 6, 3:18 am ET
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. - When United Flight 93 crashed on Sept. 11, 2001 in the rolling fields of Shanksville, Pa., the tragedy forever bound local residents with relatives of the flight's 40 passengers and crew members.
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EARTHtimes.org - Tue Nov 3, 1:34 pm ET
Washington - Rescue workers exposed to dust and pollutants following the collapse of the World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, suffer from asthma at more than twice the rate of the general US population, according to new data released Tues...
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WCBS-TV New York - Sat Oct 31, 6:35 pm ET
A small fire at the temporary home for the remains of thousands of World Trade Center victims was likely arson committed after a break-in on Saturday, authorities said. The smoldering flames in a section of the facility's chapel on Manhattan's East Side were quickly extinguished. Firefighters got a call at about 9 a.m. to respond to Memorial Park, a weatherproof tent on Manhattan's East Side ...