42 still missing from 9/11 terrorist attacks\nNEW YORK -- Among the 2,792 names on the official World Trade Center death toll are 42 people actually listed as missing -- not dead -- because their remains have not been identified and their whereabouts on Sept. 11 cannot be established with certainty.\nSome of those people may not be dead, or even exist. A few may be trying to fake their deaths, while others could have been wrongly reported missing, city officials said in interviews with The Associated Press.\nBut 42 cases have no such proof and no identified remains. They will remain listed on the trade center death toll for now. The names of the missing will be included in the list read aloud at Thursday's second-anniversary ceremony.
Alabama governor keeps promise to monument supporters\nMONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Gov. Bob Riley opened an exhibit at the Capitol on Tuesday that included a small plaque of the Ten Commandments, keeping a promise to supporters of a massive granite monument removed by court order from the state judicial building.\nThe plaque was given to Riley by supporters of the 2 1/2-ton Ten Commandments monument.\nRiley and Alabama's attorney general included other historical documents, including the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, in the display to make it more legally defensible than the 5,300-pound monument that sat alone in the rotunda of the Supreme Court building before it was wheeled away on Aug. 27. \nsh: Judge allows 9/11 suit against airlines
NEW YORK -- The crashing of a hijacked jetliner was the kind of "foreseeable risk" that the airline industry should have guarded against, a judge ruled Tuesday as he permitted lawsuits related to the Sept. 11 attacks to proceed.\nU.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein said negligent security screening could have contributed to the deaths of 3,000 people in the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and the crash of a hijacked plane in Pennsylvania.\nAmerican and United Airlines, the Boeing Co. and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey had attempted to get the suits dismissed, arguing they had no duty to anticipate and guard against deliberate, suicidal aircraft crashes. The defendants also argued any alleged negligence on their part was not the cause of the deaths and injuries.\nIn his 49-page ruling, Hellerstein said that while it may be true that terrorists had never deliberately flown airplanes into buildings, "airlines reasonably could foresee that crashes causing death and destruction on the ground was a hazard that would arise should hijackers take control of a plane"
