Oklahoma City Bombing (1995)

Mayor of West, Texas: The face of a ravaged town

2013-04-29 13:14:00

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...

A better way to track a bomber

2013-04-28 00:00:00

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...

Goldberg: 'Right wing' doesn't equal 'terrorist'

2013-04-23 00:00:00

"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...

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has rights

2013-04-23 00:00:00

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...

Alex Jones has a sick theory about the Boston Marathon bombings

2013-04-19 05:00:00

Usually, it would be best to ignore conspiracy-mongers such as Alex Jones and not reward him and his angry gaggle of paranoiac followers with any sort of attention. But, in a week when thoughts of the dead and maimed victims of the Boston Marathon...

Boston attack a reminder for man who arrested Timothy McVeigh

2013-04-17 06:00:00

Charlie Hanger, the man who arrested Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, had already planned to speak to middle school students Friday on the 18th anniversary of the bombing. Now he anticipates questions from the young people about Monday's deadly...

With Boston blasts, law enforcement plunges into the unknown

2013-04-15 21:42:00

Suddenly, everything looked like a bomb. "Please note," one Boston first responder warned his colleagues Monday, in the churning radio traffic that immediately followed the bombings at the Boston Marathon. "There’s three handbags in front of the...

Boston bombings: Muslims fear another 'hysteria'

2013-04-16 07:47:00

We will know soon enough who unleashed Monday’s grotesque violence on Boston. But it is fair to say that many Muslims who heard that explosions had marred the end of the Boston Marathon had a simple, poignant thought: Please don’t let it be...

Jury pool tainted by news on priests' sex abuse, church lawyers say

2013-03-16 10:02:29

Civil rights group warns of rising danger from extreme right

2013-03-05 14:45:00

Efforts to limit gun violence and to bring about immigration reform have led to a growing backlash from the extreme right, including the so-called patriot and militia groups, a civil-rights group said Tuesday. In its latest report, the Southern Poverty...

Prosecutor: Professor's fantasies serious as those of mass shooters

2012-08-15 12:03:53

Marie Kolasinski dies at 90; Christian activist ran O.C. crafts business

2012-04-30 00:00:00

Marie Kolasinski, a devoutly anti-government Orange County grandmother who was sent to jail at 85 after clashing with health inspectors at her popular quilting and crafts emporium, has died. She was 90. Once dubbed "Che Kolasinski" by a local newspaper...

After the Oklahoma City bombing, President Clinton, second from left, insinuated that Rush Limbaugh and his imitators were partly to blame.

2013-04-22 18:34:59

Investigators examine the wreckage of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995.

2013-04-16 22:57:00

In Springfield: The season ended with the series first (and only) cliffhanger: who shot Mr. Burns? Beyond Springfield: Oklahoma City bombing; first version of Netscape Navigator released.

2012-02-16 12:34:54