A group of white New Haven firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court are seeking back pay, damages and legal fees.
Amid blaring bagpipes, the crowd erupted with even louder cheers, whistles and shouts when firefighters entered a high school auditorium to receive their promotional badges after a 5-year legal battle that ended with a U.S. Supreme Court victory.
The 14 Connecticut firefighters who won a reverse discrimination case in a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court have had their promotions approved by New Haven's Board of Fire Commissioners.
A group of black Connecticut firefighters hopes to block promotions for white firefighters who won a discrimination case before the U.S. Supreme Court.
Two veteran firefighters who died trying to save the lives of dozens trapped in the largest wildfire in Los Angeles County history were remembered as heroes Saturday in a memorial service at a sun-dappled Dodger Stadium attended by Vice President Joe Biden and others.
A firefighters union says a New York City engine company had to close its firehouse for 30 minutes to bathe a circus elephant on city orders.
Firefighters report some progress against a gigantic blaze on the edge of Los Angeles, but warned that this one might be just a preview of even greater dangers ahead.
The body of fallen firefighter Capt. Tedmund Hall is being escorted through Los Angeles to a mortuary in Victorville.
Kujo, a 120-pound Presa Canario, is little the worse for wear after firefighters hauled him out of a 30-foot-deep abandoned well where he could have drowned during a rainstorm. “I was nervous,” admitted rescuer Travis Lambert. “He’s a big dog.”
More than 5,000 firefighters lined several city blocks in Buffalo and saluted with white-gloved hands as the flag-draped casket of a fellow firefighter arrived at a downtown cathedral. The sad scene played out twice Friday on a day of mourning.
The brother-in-law of a man convicted of setting a Southern California wildfire that killed five firefighters has surrendered to police in a jury tampering case.
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee aren't letting go of the issue involving white firefighters from Connecticut who last month won a reverse discrimination case at the Supreme Court.
Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has defended her ruling against white firefighters who accused the New Haven, Conn., government of engaging in reverse discrimination against them.
Foes of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor celebrated the high court's reversal of her decision in a reverse discrimination case.
The Supreme Court ruling in favor of white New Haven firefighters who said they were victims of reverse discrimination will probably leave employers confused, civil rights advocates and labor attorneys say.
Spinning a Supreme Court decision in its favor, the White House said Monday that the justices' reversal of a ruling that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge proves that she follows judicial precedent.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that white firefighters in New Haven, Conn., were unfairly denied promotions because of their race, reversing a decision that high court nominee Sonia Sotomayor endorsed as an appeals court judge.
A convicted arsonist was sentenced to death Friday for setting a Southern California wildfire that killed five federal firefighters struggling to defend a rural home from raging, wind-driven flames.
When an important reverse discrimination case came before federal appeals court judge Sonia Sotomayor last year, she and two other judges issued an unusually brief decision that went against white firefighters.
Authorities in Texas say six firefighters in San Antonio have been hospitalized after being exposed to chlorine gas while battling a blaze at a cemetery.
A divided Supreme Court took up its first examination of race in the Obama era Wednesday, wrestling with claims of job discrimination by white firefighters in a case that could force changes in employment practices nationwide.
In an April 19 story about a lawsuit accusing the city of New Haven of violating the rights of white firefighters by discarding a promotion test because no blacks would have been promoted, The Associated Press erroneously reported one of the credentials of psychologists who filed a Supreme Court brief supporting the defendants. They are elected fellows of the Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology, not officers of the organization, which isn't involved in the suit.
Houston fire officials say they're investigating the deaths of two firefighters who died when they went inside a burning home after neighbors told them no one was inside.
A jury recommended the death penalty Wednesday for a man convicted of murdering five federal firefighters who were overrun by one of several wildfires he ignited in Southern California in 2006. Jurors took less than a day to decide that Raymond Lee Oyler deserved to die. Prosecutors cited the horrific pain the fire crew suffered and the terror the auto mechanic's fires caused in rural areas of Riverside County.
Vice President Joe Biden said Monday the Obama administration is committed to getting firefighters the equipment, training and additional staffing they need to do their jobs.