Good Morning! Friday September 11th 2009

6am Headlines

Drawing on the spirit that spurred volunteers to rush to the burning World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001, Americans looked for ways to help each other on a day better known for mourning the thousands of people killed in the nation's worst terrorist attack
take sometime today to remember the four hijacked jetliners that crashed into the twin towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field, killing nearly 3,000 people, most in New York.



But the dog days of August added up to another dismal month
here, as revenue declined 16.3% from a year ago.

In a month that is traditionally one of the best for seaside resort, all 11 casinos reported declines, ranging from 6.9% at the Tropicana Casino and Resort, to nearly 30% at Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino.

Atlantic City is now in the third straight year of falling revenues due to the recession and out-of-state competition.

For the first eight months of the year, revenue is down 15.1% here, to $2.7 billion.



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A teenager whose collapse and death spurred a reckless homicide prosecution of his coach likely had a temperature of 109 degrees when he went down, a heat stroke expert testified Thursday.

Douglas Casa, an associate professor of heat and hydration issues at the University of Connecticut, said 15-year-old Max Gilpin's temperature stayed dangerously high for more than an hour before he began to cool down.

Casa also told jurors in the trial of former Pleasure Ridge Park football coach David Jason Stinson that eight to 10 players were showing signs of heat stroke during the 40 minutes of sprints the players ran on Aug. 20, 2008.

"No coach in American should have 40 minutes of conditioning without a mandatory break," Casa said. "How could you get water? They'd miss repetitions. The coach has to implement the guidelines."




A 24-year-old graduate student at Yale University's School of Medicine vanished days before her wedding and has been declared missing by campus police.

Annie Marie Le, who is supposed to be married on Sunday, has not been seen or heard from since Tuesday morning, according to the Yale Police Department.