WATERBURY— Former Mayor Neil M. O'Leary circled the old Odd Fellows Hall time and again walking the downtown beat as a rookie police officer in 1980, never imagining the building would be renamed ...

Sounds of somber, strength and resilience were heard at the Outdoor Symbolic Memorial, now sacred ground, in place of where the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building once stood.

"Let’s set the example for the rest of the nation. Let’s tell them our story again, so that the nation doesn’t forget. Let’s teach the nation how to love and forgive," Sen. James Lankford said.

The John Harvard sat placidly outside Memorial Hall, in what would now be part of the Science Center Plaza, for 40 years. Only in 1924 — after a years-long campaign involving the statue’s sculptor ...