Halloween is the last day of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Doctors have seen a spike of breast cancer cases among people who worked at Ground Zero after 9/11. Hundreds of people from the area were killed or injured in the collapse of the World Trade Center 18 years ago.
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October 31, 2019
October 31, 2019
Governor Tony Evers made a stop in Kewaskum on Thursday, Oct. 31. He signed a bill establishing the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial Highway and the Wisconsin 9/11 Memorial and Education Center. Amidst the snow, an unfinished memorial awaits a portion of its unveiling in Kewaskum.
October 31, 2019
Five days after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September of 2017, Bill Keegan, a retired lieutenant with the Port Authority Police of New York, and a band of New York City firemen, police officers and tradesmen from his nonprofit HEART 9/11 were there on the ground to help.
October 31, 2019
More than 100 local residents, joined by a very special guest from France, participated in the first-ever Fontana Tunnel to Towers 5K Run at Fontana Park on Oct. 26.
October 28, 2019
James ‘Jimmy’ Boyle, a former two-time president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association, died over the weekend at age 80.
October 26, 2019
These heroic Port Authority workers are finally getting their just rewards. The agency’s board has voted to restore an extra yearly vacation day to employees who went above and beyond during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
October 25, 2019
A former NYPD detective and 9/11 survivor advocate died early Friday from cancer related to his work sifting through the rubble after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Daily News has learned.
October 23, 2019
A new special exhibition exploring the almost 10-year search for Osama bin Laden will open on Nov. 15 at the 9/11 Memorial Museum.
October 23, 2019
No one expected to encounter one of the most deadly, single-day terrorist attacks in United States history on September 11, 2001.
October 23, 2019
North Tonawanda will honor the lives lost on 9/11 with a Memorial Healing Field at Gratwick Park in September 2021. Hosted by the Erie Niagara Sunshine Exchange Club, the 9/11 Memorial Healing Field will be held on the 20th anniversary of the attacks in 2021.
October 22, 2019
Former Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Tuesday said she left office because "saying no" and refusing to do things that others in the administration wanted was "not going to be enough." "There were a lot of things that, there were those in the administration who thought that we sho
October 22, 2019
The top section of the antenna from one of the World Trade Center towers currently on display at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., will be placed into storage when the museum closes instead of going to the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York City.
October 19, 2019
Peter Farrenkopf had only been off the job for a year, and was living in the Ulster County farmhouse he and his wife had bought a few years earlier when he got a shattering diagnosis for the illness he had been feeling.
October 19, 2019
DNA testing identified the remains of a victim previously considered missing during the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack in New York City, the city's medical examiner's office confirmed. The man is the 1,645th person to be identified as killed in the World Trade Center attack.
October 18, 2019
September, 11, 2001, is not being forgotten — thanks in part by those people who keep the memory in the forefront and who are educating the youths who were born after the devastation.
October 15, 2019
Boston Globe Reporter Mitchell Zuckoff wrote about the September 11th terrorist attacks in 2001. His latest book Fall and Rise, The Story of 9/11 is a culmination of years of research and countless interviews with victims and their families.
October 13, 2019
On 9/11 first responders climbed 110 stories trying to save the lives of people trapped in the twin towers. To honor those who lost their lives that day hundreds climbed stairs at the Peoria Civic Center Sunday.
October 11, 2019
The names of 47 Finest who died from 9/11-related illnesses were added to the Fallen Heroes Memorial in Battery Park City on Friday. Arthur Halbran, 92, lost his daughter, Officer Diane Halbran, in September 2017 after she fell ill from her heroic 9/11 rescue efforts. “I am so proud of her.
October 9, 2019
Eighteen years after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, educational institutions near the World Trade Center are finally beginning to reach out to former students and teachers to apprise them of the health risks they face as survivors, and how they can get help if they need it. At a Sept.
October 9, 2019
A veteran of 9/11 has concluded his nearly three decades of service. Lt. Col. Daniel Donahue retired Sept. 27 at Bob Jones Auditorium. He was honored for his 28 years of service by ceremony host Maj. Gen. Thomas Todd, program executive officer for aviation.
