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Tunnel to Towers Foundation Chairman and CEO Frank Siller and family members honored his late brother Stephen Siller — a heroic 34-year-old husband, father, and firefighter who, after hearing about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attack, loaded himself down with gear, and traversed through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel on foot heading to the Twin Towers, and ultimately giving his life — by retracing the man's steps on Friday as Americans marked […]

Terry Strada, whose husband was killed in the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, said Friday during the 25th anniversary ceremony at Ground Zero that Saudi Arabia continues to evade responsibility for the terrorist attacks.Strada went on to accuse the U.S. government of "protecting" Saudi Arabia, saying "administration after administration" had failed the victims' families over the last quarter-century."The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia fomented a rancid culture of anti-American […]

The lone holdout juror in the Lindsay Clancy case was also the only Black person on the jury, one of the panelists revealed in a new interview.Paula Devlin, one of the outspoken jurors who was part of the 11-person majority in favor of finding Clancy not criminally responsible for strangling her three young children, explained that the lone holdout was a Black man and the only person of color on […]

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An Illinois mother accused of strangling her 2-year-old son was suffering a "psychotic episode" when the child was killed, her high-profile defense attorney says, even as prosecutors allege she was plotting to poison her husband.The competing accounts come as Corie A. Walsh's attorneys accuse jail officials of failing to provide her prescribed psychiatric medication after hospital doctors recommended she receive around-the-clock psychiatric care upon her discharge, according to the defense.The […]

A California man was arrested early Thursday amid allegations that he and two others paid homeless people living in Los Angeles' Skid Row neighborhood to sign petitions using the stolen identities of registered voters in an effort to qualify ballot initiatives for local elections.James Brass, 47, a.k.a. "Lord," was taken into federal custody in Victorville, 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, the Justice Department said. Brass and the other two […]

A 20-year-old Michigan man who had moved to Central Florida just days earlier to begin the Disney College Program was killed in an apparent lightning strike while on a walking path, authorities and his family said.Matthew Eric Jenkins of Shelby Township, Michigan, was found unresponsive Tuesday evening on a walking path behind a hotel in Celebration, according to the Osceola County Sheriff's Office.Jenkins' father told WESH-TV his son had moved […]

A World War II-era plane crashed while attempting to land at a Pennsylvania airport Wednesday evening, trapping the pilot inside the overturned aircraft before police and an airport employee freed him, authorities said.Limerick Township police responded to Heritage Field Airport around 7:17 p.m. and found the small aircraft upside down on the runway with the pilot, its only occupant, trapped inside.An airport employee and officers freed the pilot from his […]

When President Donald Trump awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to Welles Crowther for his heroism during the 9/11 terrorist attack during a Tuesday ceremony, Crowther's mother Alison specifically mentioned the Upper Nyack, New York, volunteer firehouse where Welles got his training."Welles... would not have been able to do what he did as effectively on 9/11 if it had not been for the training and experience he gained as […]