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Remains of 9/11 Victims Dumped in Landfill

Dover Air Force Base under fire for treatment of cremated remains

(Newser) - Small, incinerated portions of the remains of 9/11 victims ended up in a landfill, the Pentagon has acknowledged for the first time. The remains of victims of the attacks in Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon, too small to identify, were brought to the Dover Air Force Base mortuary, where they...

Number Protesting 'Ground Zero Mosque' Opening: Zero

Well, that was anticlimactic

(Newser) - The definition of anticlimactic: Following almost two years of clashes between those who planned the so-called “Ground Zero mosque” and those who protested it, the Park51 Islamic cultural center opened its first exhibition in New York yesterday without incident. Spectators, not protesters, viewed an exhibit featuring photos of New...

10 Years Later, Last 9/11 Wrongful Death Suit Settled

But Mark Bavis' family will still fight for safer air travel

(Newser) - At last year’s 9/11 anniversary, there was just one victim's family who still refused to settle their wrongful death lawsuit. But little more than one week after this year’s anniversary, the Bavis family has changed its mind. Family members of hockey scout Mark Bavis wanted to expose...

9/11 Victim's Name Misspelled on Memorial

Family of Jeffrey Schreier finds typo

(Newser) - The engravers at the new 9/11 memorial in New York City aren't quite done: The family of victim Jeffrey Schreier has discovered that his name was spelled incorrectly, reports the New York Post . It reads "Jeffery" instead of "Jeffrey." Schreier was one of the Cantor Fitzgerald...

Algorithm Arranges Names on 9/11 Memorial

Order reflects 2,983 personal and professional relationships

(Newser) - The 9/11 memorial at Ground Zero will be dedicated this weekend, and Scientific American explains how planners used a complex algorithm to figure out how to arrange the 2,983 names of victims. They're not alphabetical but instead grouped by sets and subsets of personal and professional relationships. For...

10 Years Later, Ground Zero Remains ID'd

Risk manager from brokerage is 1,629th victim identified

(Newser) - Nearly 10 years after the 9/11 terror attacks, another victim has been identified, reports the New York Daily News . Ernest James, a 40-year-old risk manager who worked at the Marsh & McLennan brokerage, was identified from a DNA sample, the medical examiner announced yesterday. Of the 2,753 people killed...

More 9/11 Cops Died of Cancer Than in 9/11 Attacks

Yet they are not eligible for compensation: NYDN

(Newser) - Since September 11, 2001, 45 NYPD officers have died of cancer. It may not seem like a huge number, until you consider that it’s nearly twice as many as the 23 who died in the 9/11 terror attacks—and that hundreds of other cops also have the disease. But...

10K 9/11 Witnesses Grapple With PTSD

45 minutes of treatment can cost $135 to $165

(Newser) - As the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 nears, the New York Times takes a look at one of the many groups of Americans still touched by—and suffering from—the experience: those with post-traumatic stress disorder. At least 10,000 witnesses developed PTSD, and many are still grappling with it,...

Obama to Attend 9/11 Events in NYC, DC, Pennsylvania

10th anniversary of attack is next month

(Newser) - President Obama and the first lady will attend events in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington in September to mark the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, says the White House. The attacks killed nearly 3,000 people at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, at the Pentagon,...

Eric Holder to Talk Phone Hacking With 9/11 Families

US investigation gets serious

(Newser) - The FBI's investigation into allegations that News of the World reporters hacked the phones of 9/11 victims must be heating up, because Attorney General Eric Holder himself will meet with families of the dead next month to discuss the probe's progress, the Guardian reports. A lawyer for 20...

US Readies News Corp Subpoenas

Investigates police bribery, 9/11 victims' phone hacking

(Newser) - As the News Corp scandal spreads to the US , the Justice Department is readying subpoenas tied to accusations of foreign bribery and allegations of hacking into 9/11 victims’ voicemail, an insider tells the Wall Street Journal —itself owned by Rupert Murdoch’s company. The subpoenas haven’t yet been...

Did News Corp Hack 9/11 Victims? FBI Is on the Case

Feds open inquiry into phone hacking scandal

(Newser) - The FBI is looking into allegations that would bring Rupert Murdoch's phone hacking scandal in the UK much closer to home: Whether reporters for the now-shuttered News of the World tabloid tried to hack into the voicemails of 9/11 victims and their families. The AP quotes an anonymous source...

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