Category Archives: Families in the News

FDNY Battalion Chief Joe Downey will run his sixth marathon this weekend with two of his nieces, running in honor of his father, Deputy Chief Ray Downey, Sr., who was killed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The father and son ran a marathon, Joe’s first, together in 1981. One day, Joe hopes […]

Joy Bennett, an Englishwoman whose son, Oli, was killed at the age of 29 in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, spoke to the Daily Mail about her feelings that Mounir el-Motassedeq, an al Qaeda terrorist who helped to finance the attacks, has been freed. An excerpt is below. “It’s hard to put into words […]

Caitlin Nelson, 20, died last year after choking during a charity pancake-eating contest. Her family has filed a lawsuit against Sacred Heart University for sponsoring the contest, alleging that the college “failed to investigate the safety of a pancake eating contest before granting approval.” The suit also claims that the school did not provide “adequate and […]