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Saturday SPORTS

As storms rolled into the area, which Friday night football football games were played and which games got postponed?

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It’s Where You Live! www.troydailynews.com September 21, 2013

Volume 105, No. 223

INSIDE

‘I felt him breathe’: Escape from the Navy Yard WASHINGTON (AP) — The first bang sounded distant and muffled. On the fourth floor, Bertillia Lavern assumed somebody downstairs was setting up for an event and had dropped a folding table. But when the bangs kept coming, Lavern recognized the sounds. See Page 10

US, Iran eye diplomatic defrosting WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Iran’s new president may meet briefly next week for the first time, marking a symbolic but significant step toward easing their countries’ tense relationship. An exchange of letters between the leaders already has raised expectations for a revival of stalled nuclear talks, though Iran is still likely to seek an easing of international sanctions in exchange for significant progress. In small steps and encouraging statements, Iran’s leaders appear to

be opening a door more widely to detente in their nuclear dispute with the U.S. Cautiously optimistic yet still skeptical, Washington is weighing whether Iranian President Hasan Rouhani’s recent overtures actually represent new policies or just new packaging. “Negotiations with the Iranians is always difficult,” President Barack Obama said in a recent interview with ABC News. “I think this new president is not going to suddenly make it easy. But, you know, my view is that if you have both a credible threat of force,

combined with a rigorous diplomatic effort, that, in fact, you can strike a deal.” Both Obama and Rouhani will be in New York next week for the annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly. The White House hasn’t ruled out the possibility of a direct exchange, though spokesman Jay Carney said no meeting is scheduled. Obama has long said he would be open to discussions with his Iranian counterparts if Tehran shows

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In this Sept. 10 photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian Presidency, Iranian President Hasan Rouhani speaks during an interview with state television at the presidency in Tehran, Iran. President Barack Obama and Iran’s new president are heading to New York next week for the U.N.’s annual meeting of the General Assembly, and could share the first exchange between See IRAN | 2 American and Iranian leaders in more than three decades.

Preserving history

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large amount of pictures, documents and artifacts which have been housed in the building for more than 50 years. “I love the pictures and I love when people come in to tell their stories,” Delcamp said. “I love when the older townspeople stop in and remember what certain buildings used to be and hear about certain people who have contributed to our culture.”

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Pleasant Hill History Center boards members Sharon Bledsoe and John Weaver look over historic photographs of Pleasant Hill businesses in the Merchants Room on the second floor of the Oakes-Beitman Memorial Library.

Pleasant Hill museum gets new name Melanie Yingst

Staff Writer myingst@civitasmedia.com

PLEASANT HILL — With a new name and a new vision, the village of Pleasant Hill’s history moves forward to preserve its past and keep its history alive. Once the Oakes-Beitman Museum, the trust which endowed the museum, has been dissolved. The village and Newton Township residents have renamed the

entity the Pleasant Hill History Center Museum. The Pleasant Hill History Center Museum is housed in the upper level of the Oakes-Beitman Memorial Library at 12 N. Main St., Pleasant Hill. It is currently open every Monday from 3 p.m - 7 p.m. “We are just started new with a new name and a new vision,” said Lesa Delcamp, one of many members of the Pleasant Hill History Center Museum. Delcamp said she has enjoyed going through the

GOP House: Keep the government running WASHINGTON (AP) — Charting a collision course with the White House, the Republican-controlled House approved legislation Friday to wipe out the three-year-old health care law that President Barack Obama has vowed to preserve — and simultaneously prevent a partial government shutdown that neither party claims to want. “The American people don’t want the government shut down, and they don’t want “Obamacare,” Speaker John Boehner said as members of his rank and file cheered at a celebratory rally in the Capitol moments after the 230-189 vote. He stood at a lectern bearing a slogan that read, “#Senate must act.” S enate Majority Leader Harry Reid said it will — but not the way Boehner and his tea party-heavy Republican contingent want. Assured of enough Senate votes to keep the government open and the health care law in existence, the Nevada Democrat accused Republicans of attempting “to take an entire law hostage simply to appease the tea party anarchists.”

Mexico looks for landslide victims, chopper ACAPULCO, Mexico (AP) — Mexican soldiers dug through tons of mud and dirt Friday in the continuing search for landslide victims, as authorities looked for a federal police helicopter that went missing while carrying out relief operations on the floodstricken Pacific coast. See Page 7

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Syrian opposition condemns al-Qaida militants BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s main Westernbacked opposition group warned on Friday that the expanding influence of al-Qaida-linked militants in the rebel movement is undermining its struggle for a free Syria. The warning came as a cease-fire ended fighting near the Turkish border between the mainstream rebels and fighters belonging to the al-Qaida offshoot known as the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. During the battle, the jihadis overran the town of Azaz.

As the cease-fire took hold, al-Qaida militants fought heavy street battles against Kurdish gunmen in northern Syria. The infighting was some of the worst in recent months between forces seeking to bring down President Bashar Assad, and it threatened to further fragment an opposition movement outgunned by the regime. The Syrian National Coalition, the main opposition group, condemned ISIL in a strongly worded statement, saying the jihadis’ push to establish

an Islamic state goes against the principles of the Syrian revolution. “ISIL no longer fights the Assad regime. Rather, it is strengthening its positions in liberated areas at the expense of the safety of civilians,” the statement said. “ISIL is inflicting on the people the same suppression of the Baath party and the Assad regime.” Al-Qaida-linked fighters in Syria have been some of the most effective forces on the battlefield, See SYRIA | 3

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In this Thursday photo, opposition fighters return from the battlefield in the Idlib province countryside, Syria. For Syria’s divided and beleaguered rebels, the creeping realization that there will not be a decisive Western military intervention on their behalf is a huge psychological blow.

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