Opinion

Editor,

WASHINGTON — The FBI has meticulously pieced together a broad terrorist plot, securing evidence the hijackers trained for months or years without raising suspicions in the United States, received financial and logistical support from others and identified additional targets for destruction. -more-

SACRAMENTO — California school districts that hoped for more money to build new schools will now have to wait until at least early 2003 for any new money. -more-

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SAN FRANCISCO – Lawmakers in Sacramento have decided on a Bay Bridge earthquake retrofitting deal that requires the state to pay about 40 percent of the $1.46 billion needed for the project. -more-

The San Francisco division of the FBI said today that agents will be placed at all three major Bay Area airports as a precaution. -more-

SACRAMENTO (AP) — State lawmakers sent to the governor Thursday a sweeping handgun bill that would require gun buyers to pass a written test and demonstrate to a safety instructor that they know how to operate the gun. -more-

WASHINGTON — President Bush branded the attacks in New York and Washington “acts of war” on Wednesday and braced a shaken nation for a long fight against the terrorists who orchestrated them. The manhunt took investigators from Florida to Canada and along the Internet. -more-