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Monday, April 15, 2013  Two firefighters are set to be memorialized with signs where they were gunned down by a sniper in western New York last year.

Thursday, April 11, 2013  The memory of West Webster volunteer firefighters Lieutenant Michael Chiapperini and Tomasz Kaczowka will continue to live on in the community they served and beyond.

Wednesday, April 03, 2013  A New York woman has been indicted on a charge she lied on a form while buying two guns that authorities say a neighbor used two years later to ambush and kill firefighters.

Monday, March 18, 2013  A New York college student has pleaded not guilty to charges she bought guns for a neighbor who later ambushed firefighters at his burning home Christmas Eve.

Monday, March 18, 2013  A New York college student faces arraignment on charges she bought guns for her neighbor, who later ambushed firefighters arriving at his burning home Christmas Eve.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013  A Webster firefighter who survived a Christmas Eve shooting ambush that left two colleagues dead is visiting the nation's capital.

Wednesday, March 06, 2013  The two Rochester-area firefighters who survived the Christmas Eve shooting the claimed the lives of two comrades are speaking publicly about the incident for the first time.

Wednesday, January 09, 2013  An upstate New York woman charged in connection with two guns used in a former neighbor's deadly Christmas Eve ambush of firefighters has pleaded not guilty to a state charge of filing a falsified business record.

Monday, January 07, 2013  Two western New York firefighters who survived the Christmas Eve ambush shootings in Webster have been released from the hospital.

Monday, December 31, 2012  A real estate agent says William Spengler's sister had planned to sell the family home that Spengler set on fire to lure firefighters into a deadly trap.

Monday, December 31, 2012  A 19-year-old volunteer firefighter is being laid to rest in western New York.

Friday, December 28, 2012  State and federal authorities have charged a 24-year-old woman in connection with the guns used in the ambush slaying of two volunteer firefighters responding to a house fire in upstate New York.

Friday, December 28, 2012  Hundreds of firefighters from the U.S. and Canada are heading to the Rochester area for the wakes and funeral services for the two volunteer firefighters killed in a Christmas Eve ambush.

Thursday, December 27, 2012  New York has invested nearly $6 million over the past three years subsidizing the upstate factory that makes legal firearms as well as the semiautomatic rifles like those used to kill 20 children in Connecticut and two firefighters outside Rochester.

Thursday, December 27, 2012  State police say an autopsy shows the gunman who lured two New York firefighters to their deaths died of a self-inflicted shot to the head and wasn't hit by return fire from a police officer.