WTC steel found buried at ground zero
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Large steel columns from the fallen twin towers have been found beneath a service road being excavated at ground zero in the search for long-buried Sept. 11 remains, officials said Wednesday.
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A New York police detective died of  lung disease caused by injecting ground-up pills not exposure  to toxic air from working in the rubble of the World Trade  Center after the September 11 attacks, the city's medical  examiner said on Thursday.
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Shoddy materials, illegal construction and a culture of corruption were blamed Saturday for the deaths of more than three dozen people buried when a 12-story apartment building crumbled to the ground.
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The World Trade Center site's owner turned over land where two office towers are planned to a developer, clearing the way for construction to begin soon on more skyscrapers at ground zero.
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A computer simulation of the September 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center, posted on the Web site YouTube by Purdue University researchers, shows how hijacked planes crashed through the twin towers, stripping fireproofing materials from the steel columns and eventually leading to their collapse.
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Images from Ground Zero as the US commemorates five years since the 11 September terror attacks
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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30 -- U.N. weapons inspectors stumbled upon evidence of Saddam Hussein's elusive weapons of mass destruction: a vial of potentially lethal chemical gas that was stored in a U.N. shipping crate in Midtown Manhattan more than 10 years ago and forgotten, U.N. officials announced...
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As firefighters searched for survivors after the Sept. 11 attacks, heat from the World Trade Center&#039;s smoldering ruins burned the soles off their boots. They needed new ones every few hours, and Chris Christopherson made sure they got them.
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PHILADELPHIA _ International Steel Group Inc., which includes the remains of the bankrupt Bethlehem Steel Corp., is being acquired by a Dutch steel company for $4.
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Nearly three years to the day of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, lawyers for more than 800 "Ground Zero" rescue and clean-up workers announced Monday a billion-dollar class-action lawsuit against owners of the World Trade Center for exposing the workers to allegedly toxic conditions.
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Federal investigators have largely ruled out a design flaw as a central factor in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers.
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A remarkable tale of survival and loss in the World Trade Center comes under scrutiny.
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Plans to build the Freedom Tower and   three other skyscrapers at Ground Zero were formally approved   on Thursday in a deal that would see the former World Trade   Center site rebuilt by 2012.
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Federal health officials have drawn up a plan for autopsies of Sept. 11 workers when they die, to determine whether they were slowly killed by their exposure to World Trade Center dust.
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Researchers have solved the mystery of the boy in the iron coffin. The cast-iron coffin was discovered by utility workers in Washington two years ago. Smithsonian scientists led by forensic anthropologist Doug Owsley set about trying to determine who was buried in it, so the body could be placed in a new, properly marked grave.
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The first steel columns of a new Freedom Tower were raised at the World Trade Center site on Tuesday, more than five years after 2,749 people died when the Twin Towers were hit by two hijacked airliners and collapsed.
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Debris from an explosion of an aging steam pipe in midtown Manhattan contained asbestos, New York authorities said on Thursday, but no airborne samples of the dangerous mineral fiber were detected.