June is Men's Health Awareness Month, which is dedicated to raising awareness to diseases that are common among males. To raise awareness of these diseases, health care providers encourage men to receive regular medical checkups. "The most common diseases that affect men are heart disease, lung, colon and skin cancer and strokes," said Ashley Rachal, 2nd Aerospace Medical Squadron dietician.

The Woolwich Township municipal building is set to house a major piece of history this Wednesday. One of the last remaining pieces of steel from the September 11 terror attacks will arrive from New York. Woolwich officials will pick it up from the New York/New Jersey Port Authority at 9 a.m. Wednesday morning launching its trek to South Jersey. More.

An ad hoc group of supporters are planning to construct a September 11 memorial park adjacent to the fire station on North Putt Corners Road and Henry Dubois Drive. Supporter Butch Dener on Friday said efforts are being made to have the park opened by the anniversary this year and has gotten the support of several organizations.

US Senator Kirsten Gillibrand announced new bipartisan legislation, known as the Transparency for the Families of 9/11 Victims and Survivors Act of 2015 that would require President Obama to declassify and make publicly available the redacted 28 pages from the Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities Before and After the Terrorist Attacks of September 2001.

Researchers say they are close to developing a first-of-its-kind of medical test that could be used to identify post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). They say that in five years, there could be a range of new tests which will help in diagnosing PTSD and determining which treatment these patients need. More.

Now that the National September 11 Memorial and Museum is open, the task of preserving the artifacts inside is an ongoing process.

With the installation of the national 9/11 flag on the one year anniversary of the 9/11 Museum opening, comes a monumental task. More.

In a significant scaling back of national security policy formed after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the Senate on Tuesday approved legislation curtailing the federal government’s sweeping surveillance of American phone records, and President Obama signed the measure hours later.

The first time I experienced what I now understand to be post-traumatic stress disorder, I was in a subway station in New York City, where I live.

It was almost a year before the attacks of 9/11, and I’d just come back from two months in Afghanistan with Ahmad Shah Massoud, the leader of the Northern Alliance. I was on assignment to write a profile of Massoud, who fought a desperate resistance against the Taliban until they assassinated him two days before 9/11. More.