Thousands of New Jersey’s 9/11 responders shut out of World Trade Center-related disability benefits because they did not meet a filing deadline have a chance to reapply for the retirement allowances. More.

Monroe County plans to build a 9/11 first responder memorial in Highland Park in an area across from St. John’s Home. “We actually had received grant funding from (New York State) assembly member Harry Bronson in the amount of $250,000,” said Bob Kiley, deputy director of Monroe County Parks. More.

Almost 22 years after Kathy Ball-Toncic ran barefoot from the North Tower on 9/11, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. While her team at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute cannot, definitively, link her disease to the toxic dust she inhaled as she fled the World Trade Center site, she is part of the WTC Health Program. More.

New York State recently finalized regulations requiring employers to notify current and former employees who worked in Lower Manhattan and Western Brooklyn during and in the months after the September 11th terrorist attacks of their potential eligibility for benefits from two federal compensation funds. More.

The right to petition under the First Amendment helps ensure the government remains accountable to the people. While the government does not have to respond to or act on anyone’s “petition for a redress of grievances,” it cannot retaliate against people when they ask for change. More.

Those born on Sept. 12, 2001, turn 24 next month. They are old enough to drink, drive and vote, but have no recollection of life in a pre-9/11 world. More.

An Air Force judge who was in college at the time of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks has been named as the new judge in the long-running terrorism case at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. More.

The city will mark 24 years since the terror attacks on Sept. 11. The impact of that day still lingers for so many people. Thousands of first responders have either died from 9/11-related illnesses or are sick. More.