One Year After a Massacre in Maine, Survivors and Loved Ones Search for New Beginnings
LEWISTON, Maine — Ben Dyer was shot five times during Maine’s deadliest mass shooting, when a gunman killed 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar. A year later, Dyer and fiancée Keela Smith want to turn the worst day of their lives into the best. As Lewiston prepares to mark the grim first […]
Troops Fired on Kent State Students in 1970. Survivors See Echoes in Today's Campus Protest Movement
KENT, Ohio — Dean Kahler flung himself to the ground and covered his head when the bullets started flying. The Ohio National Guard had opened fire on unarmed war protesters at Kent State University, and Kahler, a freshman, was among them. M1 rifle rounds hit the ground all around him. “And then I got hit,” […]