2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (862+ words) The phone messages got to me. “I’m on a plane that’s been hijacked. I’m on the plane. I’m calling from the plane. I want to tell you I love you. Please tell my children that I love them very much,…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (540+ words) Jennifer Messaros walked along Broadview Boulevard in Harrison on Friday, American flag in hand, thinking about the unsung heroes from Sept. 11, 2001. “Even though it’s been 25 years, I find out something new every year,” Messaros said, while participating in the annual…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (709+ words) Several thousand people made their way to the Flight 93 Memorial Plaza in Stonycreek Township, Somerset County, Friday to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Morning and afternoon ceremonies centered around the 40 passengers and crew who died preventing the hijacked…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1778+ words) Outside tiny Shanksville’s fire station stands a gleaming steel cross made of material salvaged from remnants of the World Trade Center’s North Tower in New York City. Prominently displayed on the cross are a date, 9/11/01, the letters “WTC” and one…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (372+ words) CHISINAU, Moldova — A flight that was scheduled to carry Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Moldova to Norway earlier this week was ​delayed when authorities closed Moldova’s airspace because of a drone incursion, a government spokesperson said. Moldovan police said a…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (667+ words) As Southwestern Pennsylvania grappled with the grief and shock of Sept. 11, 2001, another task soon emerged: preserving the stories of the people whose lives intersected with United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-five years later, an oral history project at Flight 93 National Memorial in…...

4+ day, 56+ min ago   (743+ words) As his staff prepares to mark the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks Friday, Flight 93 National Memorial Superintendent Stephen Clark said they had no trouble coming up with a theme for this year. “It’s three words: ‘The Next Generation,’ ” Clark said. That…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago   (346+ words) Work on a leaking roof and other finishing touches are all that remain for the first phase of a $22 million project that will double the size of the terminal at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity. Westmoreland County Airport Authority…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (963+ words) As the FBI wrapped up its work at the United Flight 93 crash site in Somerset County, then-Coroner Wally Miller had a message for the grief-stricken families of the 40 passengers and crew members aboard the airplane. Miller told them that if…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1563+ words) Today’s students weren’t alive when the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks shook the nation — and neither were many of the rookie teachers educating them about the historic event. As students and young teachers work to connect with a day they do not…...