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Antenna Spat May Cost WTC Site 'Highest Tower' Title

Kevin Spak — Thu, 10 May 2012 14:07:40 CDT

The owners of the One World Trade Center tower are feuding with the tower's architects over the 408-foot antenna that will protrude from its roof, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Port Authority and developer Douglas Durst want to dispense with an ornamental white shell that was originally supposed to...

Freedom Tower Now NYC's Tallest ... Sort Of

Kevin Spak — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 09:38:31 CDT

It’s a momentous day in New York today: The World Trade Center is once again the city's tallest structure. The skeleton of the still-under-construction "Freedom Tower" will today surpass 1,250 feet, the AP reports, making it just a hair higher than the Empire State Building. But the title comes...

World Financial Center Evacuated for Toy Grenade

Kevin Spak — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 12:20:06 CDT

The World Financial Center tower was evacuated today, over something that was at least kinda designed to look explosive. A private security guard noticed something that looked suspiciously like a grenade while X-raying a package that had come in by mail, and cleared the entire 44-story building, police tell NBC...

Remains of Another 9/11 Victim Identified

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:51:55 CST

Remains of another 9/11 victim have been identified. The New York City Chief Medical Examiner's Office said today it had identified remains of Karol Ann Keasler. She was 42 when she died in the terrorist attack a decade ago. She worked in the World Trade Center at investment bank Keefe,...

Noose Discovered at 1 World Trade Center

Rob Quinn — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:57:20 CST

Port Authority police launched a hate crime investigation after construction workers returning from their Christmas break found a noose hanging from the 64th floor of 1 World Trade Center. It's not clear whether there had been any tension among workers at the skyscraper formerly known as Freedom Tower, the New...

Architects Apologize for Design Echoing 9/11

Mark Russell — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:00:00 CST

A Dutch architecture firm is apologizing for the design of a new luxury high-rise it announced last week, after people complained it was reminiscent of the exploding World Trade Center on 9/11, reports Reuters . Called The Cloud, the development in Seoul, South Korea, called for two white high-rises of 54...

NY Judge: Al-Qaeda Owes $9.3B

Mark Russell — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 05:29:48 CDT

Somebody tell al-Qaeda to get out its checkbook. A federal judge yesterday ruled that the terrorist organization owes $9.3 billion for the damage caused to businesses and properties in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, reports the AP . Several insurance companies started their suit in 2003 versus a variety of...

9 Things You Might Not Know About 9/11

Evann Gastaldo — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 17:45:05 CDT

Though you've no doubt read plenty of stories related to the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, here's one that's likely to surprise. Yahoo UK lists nine facts you probably didn’t know about the tragic day: Twenty survivors were pulled out of the rubble : One was a secretary rescued after...

This Day Is Stained by Shame

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:52:37 CDT

For many Americans, the 10th anniversary of September 11 comes shrouded in feelings of grief and loss, but the overwhelming emotion for Paul Krugman is shame. The "atrocity should have been a unifying event," but instead "fake heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to...