Sept. 11 first responders and state pols are pressing Gov. Cuomo to sign a bill granting better pension benefits to public employees disabled following Ground Zero rescue and recovery work. A bill that passed the Legislature in June expands the World Trade Center Disability Law to include nonuniformed responders. More.

Moving toward a final reckoning as the nation approaches the 20th anniversary of the day that led to the longest war in American history, a military judge on Friday set a date for the death penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay of the five men accused of plotting the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. The judge, Col. W. Shane Cohen of the Air Force, set Jan. 11, 2021, for the start of the selection of a military jury at Camp Justice, the war court compound at the Navy base in Cuba. More.

A stone memorial that was erected upstate in honor of first responders from 9/11 was reportedly vandalized with spray paint this week. “To see something like that is really tough,” said Adam Blowes, assistant city manager of Geneva, where the memorial is located. More.

A memorial dedicated those who have given their lives in service since Sept. 11, 2001, will be displayed on the downtown square starting today and running through Labor Day weekend. The Remembering Our Fallen memorial shows the faces of those who have served since the terror attacks, AmVets Commander Jim Duncan said. More.

A park on Long Island will be named after a retired NYPD detective who died of cancer related to his work at ground zero and fought in Washington for continued benefits for other 9/11 responders. A resolution was filed to officially change the name of Terrell Avenue Park in Oceanside to Detective Luis G. Alvarez Memorial Park. Alvarez, an Oceanside resident, testified before Congress about the need for a permanent Victim Compensation Fund in the weeks before he died.

A Nassau park may soon bear the name of Luis G. Alvarez, the Oceanside man whose sacrifice after one of the country’s darkest days and dedication to fellow 9/11 first responders despite terminal cancer drew the admiration of the nation he served. Nassau County Executive Laura Curran filed a resolution Tuesday to rename Terrell Avenue Park in Oceanside after one of the village’s most revered residents, calling the retired New York Police Department bomb squad detective a “champion” for the men and women who responded to the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center.

The FDNY- Carolinas Retirees Association (FDNY-CRA), an organization of retired New York City Fire Fire Department (FDNY) firefighters who now reside in both North and South Carolina, will host and/or participate in 9/11 Memorial events on September 11. More.

A federal judge has ruled the FBI unlawfully withheld from the Florida Bulldog key sections of records of its investigation of a Saudi family that fled Sarasota two weeks before the 9/11 attacks – leaving behind cars, clothes, furniture, food and other belongings. More.