Oklahoma City Bombing (1995)

The mayhem in Boston the week of April 15 was a reminder of how an American city can be paralyzed by a homemade bomb. The same kinds of improvised explosive devices that menaced U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan can easily be deployed by freelance...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 7 (Reuters) - Investigators have determined that ammonium nitrate was the cause of the explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant last month that left 14 people dead and some 200 injured, a spokeswoman for the Texas state fire...

(Corrects day that spokeswoman made comments from Tuesday to Monday) SAN ANTONIO, Texas, May 7 (Reuters) - Investigators have determined that ammonium nitrate was the cause of the explosion at a West, Texas, fertilizer plant last month that left 14...

WEST, Texas — The two-tone brown Ford F-150 careens into the downtown parking space and out jumps Tommy Muska, a mayor on the move. Wearing a baseball cap, green long-sleeved shirt and bluejeans, his face ruddy from a life under the central Texas...

Already, the conservatives are screaming at the Obama administration for the way they are treating Boston bombing suspect Dzjokhar Tsarnaev. They don’t want him tried in civilian court. They didn’t want him to be read his Miranda rights....

WASHINGTON — Investigators said the two Boston Marathon bombs were triggered by long-range remote controls for toy cars — a more sophisticated design than originally believed — bolstering a theory that the older suspect received bomb-...

"If history were to repeat itself," warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1944 State of the Union address, "and we were to return to the so-called normalcy of the 1920s, then it is certain that even though we shall have conquered our enemies on...

On Friday night, Bill Rodgers was in Roanoke, Va., getting ready to run a marathon relay with Frank Shorter Saturday. Dick Beardsley was looking out the window at a foot of snow in Minnesota, preparing to give a speech at a fundraiser to help people...

Let us beat the gun-rights crowd to the punch and agree with them right here and now that firearms aren't the only dangerous devices out there in dire need of greater regulation. It seems that certain types of fireworks may need to be added to that list,...

On Monday morning, Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was charged with using a weapon of mass destruction. According to a transcript of that proceeding, a magistrate at Tsarnaev's hospital bedside read him the Miranda warning, informing him of his...

* Decision rests with U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder * Tsarnaev's youth, state of mind likely key factors * "Significant likelihood" death will be sought -Chertoff By Jessica Dye NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuters) - Federal prosecutors may seek the death...

Over the last 20 years, the month of April has been a month marked by incidents of violence in our country. Among the tragedies have been the Oklahoma City bombing, the Columbine shooting, the Virginia Tech massacre, and more recently the Boston...