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NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - Rep. Peter King is calling out presidential candidate Ted Cruz amid controversy over the senator's comments on "New York values." On Saturday, King tweeted that Ted Cruz was lying when he said he supports New York's firefighters and police. "Not true," the Republican said, adding that Cruz did not co-sponsor or vote in favor of the Zadroga 9/11 Health & Compensation Act. King went on to call Cruz "a fraud." @tedcruz can't tell truth. Says he fights 4 cops & firefighters. Not true. Didn't cosponsor or vote 4 Zadroga 9/11 health bill. What a fraud -...

Bloomberg backs 9/11 benefits billLast Updated: Monday, December 20, 2010 | 6:51 PM ET CBC News New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg urged the U.S. Congress on Monday to approve a bill to help the police, firefighters and other emergency workers who became ill after working in the area around the World Trade Center towers that collapsed on 9/11. "Caring for the men and women who rush to our defence on that dark day and on the days that followed is nothing less than a national duty," Bloomberg said during a news conference attended by politicians, police officials and the families...

Congressional Democrats don’t really love our Constitution. They see it a pesky fly that occasionally lands on their plans and has to be shooed away. When in power Democrats will rip up the Constitutions, and laugh as they throw the pieces into the faces of the Republican “Boy Scouts.” ….. So it was no surprise that Nancy Pelosi ordered a supermajority vote to pass a simple health care bill designed to help sick and dying first responders who rushed to the rubble of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to do anything they could. Real Americans are like that....

A retired, 34-year-old New York City police detective who spent hundreds of hours searching for Sept. 11 victims at ground zero has died of a respiratory disease related to the cleanup, union officials said. James Zadroga is believed to be the first emergency responder to die as a result of exposure to World Trade Center dust and debris, said Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives’ Endowment Association. “Unfortunately, I do not think he is going to be the last,” Palladino said Saturday. Zadroga died Thursday at his home in Little Egg Harbor, N.J., officials said. Results of an autopsy were...

A young police detective who spent nearly 500 hours sifting through rubble at Ground Zero has died of a lung disease connected to his cleanup efforts, police union officials said yesterday. James Zadroga, 34, who died Thursday at his parents' New Jersey home, retired from the NYPD in July 2004 because of his deteriorating health. He is the first emergency worker to die from constant exposure to the Sept. 11 wreckage at the World Trade Center, said Michael Palladino, president of the Detectives' Endowment Association. A high-ranking police source said the department does not have the medical authority to link...