This Sunday, we spring forward at 2 a.m., so make you set your clock an hour ahead. And, as the Fire Department always reminds us during daylight savings time, it's a great time to change the batteries in your smoke detectors. (While many homes have smoke detectors, 33% have dead batteries—a situation that could be dangerous.) Duracell has donated 9-volt batteries to the FDNY Foundation, and the FDNY and Duracell will be giving them out in all five boroughs today through Sunday. Here are the locations: more ›

An early-morning fire in Bushwick yesterday left a man and a woman in critical condition and cost the lives of four dogs, but it could have been worse had it not been for the fast-acting FDNY. The fire in a wood frame home on Bleecker Street was discovered by neighbors just after 3 a.m., at which point it had spread from an unoccupied ground floor unit to the second floor, where two boys were leaning out the window with their dogs to escape smoke inhalation. "I was saying jump, jump,” neighbor Eddie Clay tells the Times. “But instead of jumping, they threw the dogs." more ›

Tonight is the night we all set our clocks ahead an hour in observance of the strange springtime ritual known as Daylight Saving Time. Until last year Daylight time began on the first Sunday in April. Thanks to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, DST now begins on the second Sunday in March and lasts until the first weekend in November. more ›