9/11

A former police lieutenant-turned-lawyer was sentenced Monday in White Plains federal court to 51 months in prison for stealing $900,000 that was due to a fellow officer who worked at the smoldering remains of the World Trade Center site after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, prosecutors said. Gustavo Vila, who has been disbarred from practicing law amid the scandal, pleaded…

A prayer bench used by a Fire Department chaplain killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center towers was driven to the New York area to join the collection of the Sept. 11 Memorial and Museum

A year after a disagreement over coronavirus protocols spawned competing Sept. 11 ceremonies in New York, the 20th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attacks will be marked with the traditional reading of victims’ names at the World Trade Center’s memorial plaza, officials announced

Retired firefighter Dennis A. Farrell died Tuesday after battling a 9/11-related illness, the New York City Fire Department announced on Friday. “We lost another FDNY brother to 9/11 illness,” the Ray Pfeifer Foundation, a nonprofit helping firefighters and police officers who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center with medical needs not covered by insurance, said…

NBC New York’s Chris Glorioso reports.

Michael Dorian, a 9/11 hero who volunteered, was struck with cancer linked to his time at ground zero and had to proof he was there that day in order to receive 9/11 benefits has passed away.

Prosecutors said Gustavo Vila gave money to his family while lying to former NYPD Officer John Ferreyra, who was diagnosed with cancer after working at Ground Zero for months after the attack, about the fate of over $1 million he was awarded in 2016

The coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of an annual run honoring a fallen firefighter

Following the loss of a dozen colleagues on 9/11, one NYPD detective began a search for her biological family, soon discovering that her relatives were already closer to her than she could have ever imagined. News Four’s Jen Maxfield has the remarkable story

They met in the ashes of 9/11, and out of the horror of that day, Michael Hankins and Victoria Burton built a foundation of love that would lead them to want to spend the rest of their lives together, and were well on their way to doing exactly that — until the pandemic hit

Two ceremonies in Lower Manhattan exemplified the divided state of America currently finds itself in amid a pandemic, as one ceremony read all the names of 9/11 victims aloud, while another had pre-recorded tributes. NBC New York’s Ray Villeda reports.

In ceremonies across the country, Americans remember the heroes and victims of Sept. 11, 2001, 19 years after the terrorist attack.

Flags are flying half-staff across the tri-state area Friday in remembrance of the thousands of lives lost to the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001 — in full awareness of the tens of thousands of lives first responders helped save amid the pandemic and the many more thousands they could not. The governors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut…

Both the Yankees and the Mets said their players would don FDNY and NYPD hats for their games as a tribute to both departments, and to honor those who lost their lives in the 9/11 attacks

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden marked the 19th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks at memorials Friday, and their differences in style were sharply on display

He had been diagnosed with a 9/11-related illness which put him at greater risk for the coronavirus. His widow now works to keep his legacy alive. News 4’s Marc Santia reports.