Several Lodi-area churches plan observances of the 9/11 tragedy during their services on Sunday.

On Thursday - two years to the minute when the second plane hit the World Trade Center - area residents remembered the 9/11 attacks by gazing upon a new flag being raised by the local Boy Scouts.

A street maintenance worker with the city of Lodi is about to leave for duty in Kuwait.

A street maintenance worker with the city of Lodi is about to leave for duty in Kuwait.

With their heads bowed, 70 people listened to the wail of police sirens fade in and out, the noise slicing through the silence. The sirens represented all of the firefighters, police officers and volunteers who drove toward the World Trade Center when the towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001.

President Barack Obama has announced that the world's most wanted terrorist, al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, was killed by U.S. forces on Sunday at a compound deep inside Pakistan.

Sept. 11, 2001 changed the lives of many over the last 10 years. Some church congregations have banded together for support and prayer. Here are the reactions of some local pastors of how this event changed their congregation:

President Bush will take a break from conducting his war against terror to visit Stockton on Oct. 3 to raise campaign cash for Rep. Richard Pombo, R-Tracy.

Donations for Red Cross terrorist attack relief growing

The fatal shooting of a Lodi murder suspect who lunged at a judge was the top story of 2009, according to News-Sentinel readers.

It was autumn 1941.

It was autumn 1941.

A U.S. Marines flag hangs from a garage door, an enlarged portrait on the wall, a framed e-mail from a co-worker, endless stories about a son who is lost but never forgotten.

No story - internationally, nationally or locally - dominated the headlines as did the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

By April 1917 "The Great War" - as it was known then, for there hadn't been a second one to give it a number - had been raging for more than two-and-a-half years and had engulfed most of Europe in a holocaust of unprecedented slaughter in which hundreds of thousands of men had died on hundreds of battlefields.

By April 1917 "The Great War" - as it was known then, for there hadn't been a second one to give it a number - had been raging for more than two-and-a-half years and had engulfed most of Europe in a holocaust of unprecedented slaughter in which hundreds of thousands of men had died on hundreds of battlefields.