NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) --Hundreds of first responders are heading to Washington D.C. to rally for a permanent extension of the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act. The group boarded buses ...

Leah Betso says her late father, NYPD Officer James Betso, was supposed to be off on 9/11, but he rushed to Ground Zero when ...

The House of Representatives will vote to make the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act permanent, according to U.S. Rep. Dan Donovan, who was among the elected officials from New York ...

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WASHINGTON (CBSNewYork)-- Retired New York City firefighter Ray Pfeifer worked on the pile at Ground Zero. Now he's working to stay alive, living with advanced kidney cancer since 2009. "I am the ...

Seeking to put a public face on the statistics behind Sept. 11-related illnesses suffered by first responders, elected officials and police union leaders asked the families of victims to tell their ...

WASHINGTON -- Comedian Jon Stewart turned serious Wednesday as he lobbied members of Congress to permanently extend a law providing medical monitoring and treatment for Sept. 11 first responders.

A spending bill expected to pass this week will include an extension of the Zadroga Act. The Zadroga Act is expected to be extended until 2090, essentially providing permanent health care for those ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. It’s a victory for 9/11 first responders who ...

Joseph Zadroga, whose first responder son died of a respiratory condition in 2006, was pronounced dead after being struck by a car in New Jersey Alamy Joseph Zadroga, a prominent advocate for the ...

Joseph Zadroga, the father of an NYPD cop whose death from illness due to his time working at Ground Zero led to a massive compensation package for first responders and others sickened after the 9/11 ...