The Civil Service Employees Association has won a $3.6-million class-action lawsuit stemming from charges that Westchester County unilaterally and illegally diminished the health-insurance benefits of retired workers. The union filed suit in 2004 on behalf of 1,600 retired members who lost benefi... More...

Mayor Bloomberg Aug. 14 praised the hard work, courage and dedication of a Sanitation Worker who died of a heart attack on the job three days earlier. Nelson Diaz, 60, died slumped over the wheel of his garbage truck while driving the same Bronx route he tended for the last 15 years. More...

A pregnant Traffic Enforcement Agent gave birth to a baby boy Aug. 14 just before dying of injuries sustained when two vehicles hit her while she was on duty in The Bronx. At about 2 p.m. Donnette Sanz, 33, was walking at the corner of East 188th St. and Webster Ave. when a 1986 Dodge van struck ... More...