Jim Crogan

What happened at the nondescript roadside motel outside Oklahoma City was just a fleeting encounter during the twisted cross-country odyssey of the terrorists who would carry out the September 11 attacks. Mohamed Atta, alleged leader of the plot, and two companions wanted to rent a room, but couldn’t get the......

This too was captured on video: As Inglewood police officer Jeremy Morse lifted his hand to punch handcuffed Donovan Jackson again, another Inglewood police officer, Mariano Salcedo, leaned in to block him. The intervention of Salcedo, a senior lead officer and eight-year veteran, appeared to end the violent confrontation and......

Either convicted Oklahoma City bombers Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were part of a conspiracy, possibly involving Middle Eastern and Filipino connections, or they were not. Seven years later, the authorities have still not fully examined this question. But taking on this issue would seem to fit the mission of......

The mainstream press finally has started paying attention to a story the L.A. Weekly broke 10 months ago about warnings that Middle Eastern terrorists were plotting an attack against the U.S. around the same time as the Oklahoma City bombing. Seventeen days after the 911 attacks, we reported that the......

For the first time since September 11, the Bush administration is on the defensive about how it handled warnings of possible hijackings by Osama bin Laden’s network. The Bush team claims the warnings were too vague to have thwarted the attacks on New York and the Pentagon, but some intelligence......

IT'S 3:30 P.M., THE DAY AFTER A SIMI Valley jury acquitted four white officers in the Rodney King case. And I am standing at the corner of Slauson and Figueroa, reporting on the riot. Nearby, a small group of onlookers gawk at a burning building. Around me the smoke from......

FIFTY-THREE PEOPLE DIED in L.A.'s riot 10 years ago. Gunfire killed 35, including eight people shot by law enforcement and two by National Guardsmen. Six died in arson fires. Attackers used sticks or boards to kill two others. Stabbings killed two. Six died in car accidents; two in hit-and-runs. One......

In response to articles published in the L.A. Weekly and Indianapolis Star, U.S. Representative Dan Burton, (R-Indiana) is planning to hold congressional hearings into whether a conspiracy, with Middle East connections, was behind the 1995 truck bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building in Oklahoma City. Burton, the chairman......

The District Attorney‘s Office has decided not to file charges against an LAPD detective who was admonished by a judge for submitting phony fingerprint tests in an attempted-murder case. The detective’s action prompted the judge to throw out the case against a 22-year-old San Pedro man. The faulty evidence involves......

A victory by the U.S.-led coalition and its Northern Alliance supporters would not only boost America’s power and influence in this strategic Caspian region, but it would reopen the door to a potential energy windfall for the West. Afghanistan’s oil, gas and coal reserves are waiting to be exploited. And......