Volunteers, especially those with carpentry skills, are needed for the 15th Day of Caring of the United Way of Horry County. The annual event starts the United Way fund-raising drive for 40-plus nonprofits serving tens of thousands of residents. Day of Caring is on Sept. 11 and the date has special meaning for United Way volunteer Esther Murphy who had worked in the World Trade Center in New York. More.

She had taken care of her husband for the last eight years of his life, through his blindness, through cancer and heart failure. After he died in 2002, she sold the Long Island house they’d loved and shared, finding it too filled with memories, and moved to their country home in upstate New York. Friends thought Anne Schomaker was coping well with her loss, she recalled. More.

With two programs that provide health care and financial help for Sept. 11 responders set to expire next month, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand was in White Plains Wednesday to show her support for making the provisions permanent. More.

The rising toll of Ground Zero responders and others afflicted with 9/11-linked cancers has hit 3,700. The staggering tally of those suffering cancers certified by the feds as 9/11-related includes FDNY members (1,100), cops and other Ground Zero responders (2,134), and survivors such as downtown workers and residents (467). Many have more than one type of cancer.

A piece of history from the Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York is coming to East Haven. PATH Car 745, from the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was one of two cars found in cast iron tunnel under the North Tower of the World Trade Center during the attacks. That tunnel allowed the cars to withstand the pressures from the collapsing buildings above. More.

It's no longer just New York’s problem. Every state in the nation now has someone suffering from cancer or other illnesses related to the 9/11 terror attacks, the Daily News has learned.

Those receiving aid from the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund vary from just a handful in states like Wyoming, Utah and Alaska to several dozen in North Carolina, sources said. More.

In the past decade due to the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the term post-traumatic stress disorder has become the focus of countless headlines and has entered the collective conscience. But it is far from a new concept. During previous wars in history, the term for PTSD was known as soldier’s heart, shell shock, battle fatigue, and war neurosis, among others. As ancient, is its flipside: post-traumatic growth. More.

U.S. Rep. Tom MacArthur introduced legislation Thursday to enable the federal government to help fund the National September 11 Memorial in New York City.