SEPTEMBER 11, 2023: Today (Sept. 11, 2023) marks the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Below are reflections from local leaders shared with DRG in 2021 about what they were doing and what they remember about the events and the following days. . SEPTEMBER 2021: Sept. 11, 2021, marked the 20th an...

NEW YORK (AP) - Companies from toothpaste makers to beauty chains are adding more premium items like designer creams and services as they reach out to wealthier shoppers who are still spending freely even in the face of higher inflation and volatile economic environment. Think $10 toothpastes and $90 creams on supermar...

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Meteorologists are urging people to be ready for dangerous weather in parts of the Midwest and South. The National Weather Service's Storm Prediction Center warns that an outbreak of severe thunderstorms Friday (March 31, 2023) could cause hail, damaging wind gusts and tornadoes that could be stro...

The Department of the Interior has made a more than $120 million investment from the Inflation Reduction Act to rebuild and restore units of the National Wildlife Refuge System and partnering State Wildlife Management Areas that have been affected by adverse weather events. The investment prioritizes projects that prom...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - Two fatal fires in Sioux Falls are under investigation. Police spokesman Sam Clemens says a 30-year-old man died in one of the weekend fires while three others in the mobile home made it out safely. Firefighters brought the man out of the burning home, but he was pronounced dead at the hospital...

UNDATED (AP)- A decade after the 9/11 attacks, Americans were reasonably positive about the state of their rights and liberties. Today, 20 years since Sept. 11, 2001, not as much. That's according to a poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The survey builds on work conducted in 2011. Som...

WASHINGTON (AP) - As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks approaches, Americans increasingly balk at intrusive government surveillance in the name of national security - and only about a third believe that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq were worth fighting. That's according to a new poll out ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Millions of Americans were guided through the horror of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks by one of three men on television news - Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and Dan Rather. Each had been their network's chief news anchors for more than two decades, with long stints as reporters before then, careers that p...

UNDATED (AP)- Rudolph Giuliani was a hero before he was a punchline. Lisa Beamer was a wife and mother before she became a symbol of Sept. 11, 2001, and though her celebrity passed, her widowhood cannot. In the aftermath of the planes falling from the sky, America and the world were introduced to an array of personalit...

NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly 3,000 people who died from the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 aren't being forgotten. Their stories endure at the 9/11 Memorial & Museum, where personal artifacts help memorialize some of those who perished. From scorched and bloodied shoes to mangled eyeglasses, the growing inventory at...

UNDATED (AP)- David Paine and Jay Winuk - who successfully lobbied the federal government to officially rename the day September 11 National Day of Service & Remembrance - have packed and distributed thousands of meals across the country, as well as encouraged millions to commemorate the day with volunteerism. To m...

NEW YORK (AP) - Even after two decades, the work to rebuild the World Trade Center complex after its destruction in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks is still incomplete. While the memorial plaza and several towers at the site have been finished for years, construction is ongoing at a planned performing arts center and at a ...

UNDATED (AP)- Twenty years on, Associated Press photographer Richard Drew still gets asked about the "Falling Man" photograph he took on 9/11. He has been invited on national talk shows, interviewed by foreign TV crews and asked to speak about it at universities across the country. Esquire magazine published ...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York City's medical examiner's office is continuing the difficult task of identifying remains recovered from the rubble of the World Trade Center. Just days before the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, officials say they have identified the remains of two more people. In all, 2,753 peo...

NEW YORK (AP) - Immigrant workers who helped clean up buildings in lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks have long asked for years to obtain legal status as a way to compensate for the work and subsequent health problems they suffered. But 20 years after 9/11, only several dozen are still participating in protests...

NEW YORK (AP) - Two decades after the collapse of the World Trade Center, people are still coming forward to report illnesses that might be related to toxic dust that billowed over the city after the terror attack. To date, the U.S. has spent $11.7 billion on care and compensation for those exposed to the dust. More th...

BOSTON (AP) - Both of the hijacked jetliners that slammed into the World Trade Center towers flew out of Boston. But only subdued remembrances are planned at Boston's Logan International Airport to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. It underscores how Boston has never truly come to terms with its supporting...

NEW YORK (AP) - The 9/11 museum is backing off uncommon restrictions on researchers after complaints that the institution was stifling scholarship. Until at least Aug. 21, 2021, the National Sept. 11 Memorial & Museum's website detailed rules for scholarly access to its collection. They required researchers to let ...

NEW YORK (AP) - Twenty years after terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center, the memorial at ground zero is like a lot of city tourist sites. Visitors from around the world come and go, snap selfies and then leave. But for those who live and work close to the memorial, the site is both a part of their dai...

UNDATED (AP)- Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber spent some time this week reflecting on the Sept. 11 attacks. He says he's glad he made the decision then to cancel the remainder of the league's regular-season games following the tragedy. The MLS came back for the playoffs that year. The league will mark the 2...