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Miss New York Nina Davuluri, left, reacts after being named Miss America 2014 as Miss America 2013, Mallory Hagan, celebrates with her, Sunday in Atlantic City, N.J.
Larry Smith of Waterloo stands in the 12-acre corn maze designed with likeness of Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck. Smith and
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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Terrin Thomas’ quest to become Miss America ended Sunday night, when she was not selected as one the 15 finalists for the crown. Thomas, 21, of Auburn participated in the weeklong competition as Miss Indiana. Miss New Thomas York, Nina Davuluri, was named Miss America in the scholarship pageant held in Atlantic City, N.J. Thomas enjoyed a moment in the spotlight of Sunday’s national television broadcast of the pageant finals on ABC. As the telecast came out of a commerical break, co-host Lara Spencer stood beside Thomas and asked if she thought she would be one of the last two finalists to be announced.
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his family run Amazing Fall Fun, an outdoor fall festival area, for six weeks between September and October.
Corn maze is Colts strong BY OCTAVIA LEHMAN olehman@kpcmedia.com
WATERLOO — Residents in northeast Indiana don’t have to go far to see Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck. He’s been in Waterloo since July and won’t leave until October. Larry Smith, a fourth-generation farmer, turned his corn maze into a 12-acre likeness of the quarterback. Three years ago, Smith and his family transformed a portion of their 450-acre farm into a fall festival area. For six weeks between September and October, the Smith family of Waterloo goes “all hands on deck” to run Amazing Fall Fun. The fall recreation area opens for the season Saturday. The idea came for the maze
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came from his sister after she visited a maze near Chicago. “She said, ‘This might be something you could do,’ ” Smith said. Smith is excited to provide something that draws so many people into DeKalb County. He estimates that nearly 10,00012,000 will visit this year’s maze. “I get to meet people from all over,” Smith said. He recalls a British couple who were driving on U.S. 6, noticed a sign and stopped in because they were curious.
Video at kpcnews.com Larry Smith talks more about the process of setting up the corn maze and other activities at Amazing Fall Fun in video at kpcnews.com. Scan the QR code to watch it on your tablet or smartphone.
“We want families to have good wholesome fun,” Smith said. “You can spend 2-3 hours in (the maze).” Smith said weather is a big factor in his business, mostly with rain. Last year’s corn was only SEE MAZE, PAGE A6
WASHINGTON (AP) — Motorists coming off the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge into Washington are treated to a postcard-perfect view of the U.S. Capitol. The bridge itself, however, is about as ugly as it gets: The steel underpinnings have thinned since the structure was built in 1950, and the span is pocked with rust and crumbling concrete. District of Columbia officials were so worried about a catastrophic failure that they shored up the horizontal beams to prevent the bridge from falling into the Anacostia River. And safety concerns about the Douglass bridge, which is used by more than 70,000 vehicles daily, are far from unique. An Associated Press analysis of 607,380 bridges in the most recent federal National Bridge Inventory showed that 65,605 were classified as “structurally deficient” and 20,808 as “fracture critical.” Of those, 7,795 were both — a combination of red flags that experts say indicate significant disrepair and similar risk of collapse. A bridge is deemed fracture critical when it doesn’t have redundant protections and is at risk of collapse if a single, vital component fails. A bridge is structurally deficient when it is in need of rehabilitation or replacement because at least one major component of the span has advanced deterioration or other problems that lead inspectors to deem its condition poor or worse. Engineers say the bridges are safe. And despite the ominous
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Cracked concrete exposes parts of reinforcement bars on the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge which spans the Anacostia River in Washington. The bridge, which carries more than 70,000 vehicles a day, was designed to last 50 years. It’s now 13 years past its life expectancy.
sounding classifications, officials say that even bridges that are structurally deficient or fracture critical are not about to collapse. The AP zeroed in on the Douglass bridge and others that fit both criteria — structurally deficient and fracture critical. Together, they carry more than 29 million drivers a day, and many were built more than 60 years ago. Those bridges are located in all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, and include the Brooklyn Bridge in New York, a bridge on the New Jersey highway that leads to the Lincoln Tunnel, and the Main Avenue Bridge in Cleveland. The number of bridges nationwide that are both structurally
deficient and fracture critical has been fairly constant for a number of years, experts say. But both lists fluctuate frequently, especially at the state level, since repairs can move a bridge out of the deficient categories while spans that grow more dilapidated can be put on the lists. There are occasional data-entry errors. There also is considerable lag time between when state transportation officials report data to the federal government and when updates are made to the National Bridge Inventory. Many fracture critical bridges were erected in the 1950s to 1970s during construction of the interstate highway system because they were relatively cheap and easy to build.
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LYONS, Colo. (AP) — The cars that normally clog Main Street in Lyons on the way to Rocky Mountain National Park have been replaced by military supply trucks. Shop owners in Estes Park hurriedly cleared their wares in fear that the Big Thompson River will rise again. A plywood sign encouraged residents mucking out their homes to “Hang in there.” Days of rain and floods have transformed the outdoorsy mountain communities in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain foothills affectionately known “The Gore-Tex Vortex” from a paradise into a disaster area with little in the way of supplies or services — and more rain falling Sunday. The string of communities from Boulder to Estes Park, the gateway to Rocky Mountain National Park, is a base for backpackers and nature lovers where blue-collar and yuppie sensibilities exist side by side. Now, roadways have crumbled, scenic bridges are destroyed, the site of the bluegrass festival is washed out and most shops are closed. Chris Rodes, one of Lyons’ newest residents, said the change is so drastic that he is considering moving away just two weeks after settling there.
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BEIRUT (AP) — A high-ranking Syrian official called the U.S.-Russian agreement on securing Syria’s chemical weapons a “victory” for President Bashar Assad’s regime, but the U.S. warned Sunday “the threat of force is real” if Damascus fails to carry out the plan. The comments by Syrian Minister of National Reconciliation Ali Haidar to a Russian state news agency were the first by a senior Syrian government official on the deal struck a day earlier in Geneva. Under the agreement, Syria will provide an inventory of its chemical arsenal within one week and hand over all of the components of its program by mid-2014. “We welcome these agreements,” Haidar was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti agency. “On the one hand, they will help Syrians get out of the crisis, and on the other hand, they averted a war against Syria by removing the pretext for those who wanted to unleash one.” He added: “These agreements are a credit to Russian diplomacy and the Russian leadership. This is SEE SYRIA, PAGE A6
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