Category Archives: Health Issues

9/11 witness Lawrence Altman’s fight to erase stigma of mental illness

Lawrence Altman lost friends in the World Trade Center terrorist attack and saw the second plane crash into the South Tower. He moved to Vail and founded Aspen Strong to help people with mental illness.

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NYPD needs to ‘break the silence’ around cop suicides: priest

Father Joseph Fonti, while officiating at the funeral of NYPD Deputy Inspector Denis Mullaney, urged the attending police officers to “break the silence” around suicide, reports Dana Kennedy for the […]

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Sayville hero James Bast honored in street renaming ceremony

Retired NYPD Sergeant James P. Bast, who died of World Trade Center-related cancer last year, has been honored with an Islip street renaming.

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