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1937 — Orson Welles produces, directs, and stars in Les Miserables, the first radio play to be produced by the fledging Mercury Theater group.

1939 — In response to Hitler’s invasion of Poland, Britain and France, both allies of the overrun nation declare war on Germany

1957 — Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus enlists the National Guard to prevent nine Black students from entering Central High School in Little Rock.

Israel allows expelling those who aid terror suspects allowed

Israeli military argues expulsion is an effective deterrent against attacks while relatives fear for those being expelled.

By STEVE WEIZMAN
Associated Press

JERUSALEM — Israel’s Supreme Court gave the army a new tool in its two-year struggle against Palestinian violence Tuesday, allowing it to expel Palestinians from the West Bank to Gaza for aiding terror suspects.

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Texas governor delays plan to tighten security at capitol

Perry wants an increasingly expensive security plan meant to be voted on Sept. 10 to cover the entire Capitol complex.

By CONNIE MABIN
Associated Press

AUSTIN (AP) — Gov. Rick Perry has told the State Preservation Board to call off its plans to tighten security at the state Capitol because he wants a broader security study to include surrounding buildings.

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Campus Headlines

Water main breaks block streets, will not affect buildings

A water main break caused temporary flooding of campus streets Tuesday evening. The break ruptured on Princeton Street causing water to flow from the cracks in the road and down gutters for several blocks down Greene Street.

“A lot of these have been breaking in this area,” said Ralph Cuellar, assistant supervisor to Fort Worth Water Department Field Operations.
A break on Lowden Street held Fort Worth water crews there earlier in the day.

“The pipes are just old and this sort of thing happens when a lot of pressure is put on them,” Cuellar said.
Water service to campus buildings was not affected.

— Alisha Brown

Sept. 11 photographer takes new picture for Newsweek

HACKENSACK, N.J. — The photographer who captured the image of three dusty firefighters hoisting a tattered flag at ground zero on Sept. 11 has taken a new shot of the men for his newspaper and Newsweek magazine.
The four reunited Aug. 20 in Battery Park. The background of Thomas E. Franklin’s new photo contains no destruction, just the Statue of Liberty looming over the bay.

The New York firefighters stand in the same order they appeared in the first photograph: George Johnson on the left, Dan McWilliams in the middle and Bill Eisengrein on the right.

The new photo, a joint project of The Record of Hackensack and Newsweek, appeared Sept. 2 on the newspaper’s front page and the magazine’s cover. Both ran the original photo last fall.

“Tom Franklin shot a historic photo that became a historic cover for Newsweek,” said Mark Whitaker, the magazine’s editor.

The magazine said Franklin’s new image “is, like the first picture, a metaphor for a country that’s also unbowed.”

Franklin shot the original photo shortly after 5 p.m. on Sept. 11.

It’s among the most enduring images of the day, and was later nominated for a Pulitzer Prize and used on a postage stamp.

Record Editor Frank Scandale said the firefighters “are American heroes for what they did that day.”

Slave descendants file suit demanding reparations

NEW ORLEANS — About 200 Louisiana residents identifying themselves as descendants of slaves filed a federal lawsuit seeking reparations from companies that allegedly profited from slave labor.

The lawsuit was one of several plaintiffs said were being filed around the country Tuesday, part of an effort that began with a lawsuit filed in March in New York.

The original New York lawsuit seeks reparations from Aetna Insurance, CSX Railroad and FleetBoston financial services.
Tuesday’s lawsuits added to the list of those seeking reparations from those companies and added new companies to the list of defendants.
New Defendants included Lloyds of London; Brown Brothers Harriman & Co.; R.J. Reynolds; Liggett Group; Brown and Williamson; and three railroads, Canadian, Norfolk Southern and Union Pacific.

The new lawsuits were to be filed in federal courts in Illinois, Texas, New York and California.

Quintuplets born Labor Day weekend in Austin

AUSTIN — A central Texas family is a lot bigger after a Labor Day weekend delivery.

A set of quintuplets was delivered by Cesarean-section at Seton Hospital on Sunday, News 8 Austin reported.

The babies, two girls and three boys, were reportedly doing well at the Seton neonatal unit. Each baby weighed about 2.5 to 3.5 pounds.

A hospital spokeswoman would not give any details about the births, saying she did not believe the mother, who for now wishes to remain anonymous, was ready to talk.
The mother and the babies are being monitored but all require minimal care.

One dead, one injured as tank explodes at plant

HOUSTON — A worker at a cooking oil processing plant died Tuesday when a tank he was applying water to exploded and threw him into the air.

The victim’s body landed in a nearby parking lot after the explosion catapulted him about 50 feet. The explosion occurred shortly before 9 a.m. in northwest Houston. The victim’s identity was not immediately released.

Authorities said another employee was welding the bottom of the tank while the worker who died in the explosion applied water to the top of the tank to cool it. The employee who was welding the tank was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was treated for shock.

“There was this big ‘whoosh,’ and I looked up,” said Dale Capstan, who works nearby. “I didn’t know what to think, but I looked up because it was like a big wind, and this guy was flying. Then the boom came, and I ran inside.”

Witnesses said the explosion caused the ground to shake.

Houston Fire Department Senior Capt. Mark Donovan said there was minimal damage to the tank and no fire.

Another county added to ‘killer bee’ quarantine

CONROE — Montgomery County has become the 144th county in the state to be added to the so-called “killer bee” quarantine list.

The quarantine, announced Tuesday, restricts the movement of commercial bee operations following the detection of Africanized honey bees in the southeast Texas county just north of Houston.

The Africanized honey bees were discovered after a worker was stung at Cedar Break Park in Montgomery, about 15 miles west of Conroe. The worker recovered and park officials removed the wild bee colony from a hollow tree at the park. A sample from the colony was sent to the Texas Honey Bee Identification Lab in College Station, where the sample was positively identified.

The quarantine allows beekeepers to move hives within but not out of the zone, which includes more than half of Texas’ 254 counties.

The Africanized bee was first detected in the United States near Brownsville in October 1990. Since then, the bee has spread through much of the state.

Africanized honey bees also have been found in Arizona, California, Nevada and New Mexico.

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