A study by the World Trade Center Medical Monitoring and Treatment Program at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine has found that a small number of law-enforcement responders who worked at Ground Zero have developed cancer, but not enough to prove that there is a link between their illnesses and exposure at the site. More...

Teamsters Local 237 and the Housing Authority have agreed to a new wage contract providing two 4-percent raises and a tenth of a percent in special compensation under a deal that is retroactive to Dec 15, 2008 and runs through Dec 14, 2010. More...

United Probation Officers Association President Dominic Coluccio charged that recently departed Probation Commissioner Martin F. Horn's decisions to give his members guns while increasing their workloads contributed to the suicides of four officers in the last four years after 31 years of no self-inflicted deaths at the agency. More...

Firefighter Paul Warhola died Aug. 14 at Bellevue Hospital as a result of a stroke he suffered earlier in the week while responding to a fire alarm. The 15-year veteran of Engine 221 in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn was 47 years old. More...