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  • Sept. 11 marked with reading of nearly 3,000 names

    LARRY NEUMEISTER, SAMANTHA GROSS - Associated Press

    NEW YORK (AP) — The names of the Sept. 11 dead, some recited by children barely old enough to remember their fallen mothers and fathers, echoed across ground zero Sunday in a haunting but hopeful tribute on the 10th anniversary of the terror attack. "Hope can grow from tragedy," Vice President Joe Biden said at the Pentagon. Weeping relatives of the victims streamed into a newly opened memorial at the spot where the World Trade Center stood. They placed pictures and flowers beside names etched in bronze, and traced them w...

  • Times Square bomber sentenced, warns of more attacks

    LARRY NEUMEISTER TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writers

    Times Square bomber sentenced, warns of more attacks LARRY NEUMEISTER TOM HAYS, Associated Press Writers NEW YORK (AP) — The Pakistani immigrant who tried to detonate a car bomb on a busy Saturday night in Times Square accepted a life sentence with a smirk Tuesday and warned that Americans can expect more bloodshed at the hands of Muslims. "Brace yourselves, because the war with Muslims has just begun," 31-year-old Faisal Shahzad told a federal judge. "Consider me the first droplet of the blood that will follow." His p...