NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The 14 Connecticut firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case in a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court have had...
nydailynews.com | Adam Lisberg and Erin Einhorn | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York
Mayor Bloomberg's administration quietly reported an unexpected tax windfall of $683 million this year - of which $145 million will exempt cops, firef...
The Huffington Post | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books
If The Joy of Sex is on the Nook, will it be called "Nookie"? And if Sebastian Junger's Fire is on the Kindle, will it be called "Kindling"? We...
AP | JACOB ADELMAN and THOMAS WATKINS | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green
LOS ANGELES — Investigators worked around-the-clock Friday as they sought to build a murder case stemming from a huge wildfire that claimed the ...
AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | Home
LOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles County Sheriff's official says two people tried to ride out the firestorm in Big Tujunga Canyon in a backyard hot tu...
New York Times | KAREEM FAHIM | Posted 09.27.2009 | New York
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg testified in a discrimination lawsuit on Wednesday that he did not recall receiving a report more than six years ago warnin...
David Quigg | Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics
If we seize this moment, if we maintain this momentum, we can give our children an America free from the totalitarian, communist abomination of public firefighting.
Connexion France | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
TWO volunteer firefighters have admitted starting fires to boost their pay. The men, aged 22 and 25 face 15 years in prison for setting fires to ear...
Tina Dupuy | Posted 08.30.2009 | Politics
Less government is not always good. The private sector is not always first-rate. And free market capitalism does not cure all.
Huffington Post | Jessica Gusman | Posted 08.23.2009 | New York
The annual New York Firefighter "Hunks" Calendar is out featuring some of the city's finest. Below is a slideshow of a few of the men wearing some of...
Michael Shaw | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
This line of primarily white "first responders" makes for a vivid non-verbal argument that Sonia is stepping up to the high court on the backs of these white heroes.
Bob Franken | Posted 07.30.2009 | Politics
It may be one of the dumber Supreme Court rationales in quite some time. Writing for the 5-4 majority which ruled in favor of New Haven's white firef...
CBS | Posted 07.25.2009 | New York
New York City's Fire Department has disciplined seven commanders over mistakes that led up to a deadly fire at a ground zero office tower in 2007. Th...
Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 04.26.2009 | Living
In what I think may be the most poignant picture of the obesity epidemic, it was reported today that 3 out of 4 military-age Americans are unfit for service.
Miami Herald | Jose Pagliery and Diana Moskovitz | Posted 03.06.2009 | Business
In just under 12 hours Monday, the chance to become a Miami firefighter disappeared. More than 1,000 applicants had stood in line -- many of them cam...
Diane Francis | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics
The United States cannot afford to take any risks. President Obama, and his family, must live in a bubble all their days in office. Handshaking, baby-kissing and plunging into crowds must be forbidden.
AP | TERENCE CHEA and MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 09.06.2008 | Home
SAN FRANCISCO — Eight firefighters and a pilot are presumed dead in the crash of a helicopter that had just picked up workers battling a blaze i...
Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed today on homeland security, Rudy Giuliani references September 11 nine separate times. In one of those instances, he cl...
Huffington Post | E.A. Hanks & Patrick Waldo | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living
Whatever is floating around in the air of Southern California has to be about as good for people's lungs as swallowing tar would be for your digestive...
Reuters | Michelle Nichols | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
"He's running for president of the United States on the back of my dead son," said Jim Riches, a deputy chief of the New York Fire Department whose fi...
AP | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York