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LEBANON TWP. – A settlement deciding that the township should build 65 new units of affordable housing and two additional non- affordable units was announced at the Township Committee ’s Wednesday, Aug. 16, meeting. The settlement now awaits court approval following a fairness hearing before Superior Court Judge Thomas Miller at the Somerset County Courthouse . The Fair Share Housing Center (FSHC), a Supreme Court- designated interested party in determining third- round Mount Laurel obligations by municipalities to provide affordable housing , agreed the township should build 65 new units plus one accessory apartment and one market-to- affordable unit . The third round obligation covers the years 1999 to 2015. Township Attorney Richard Cushing gave a brief summary of the litigation at the Township Committee meeting . He said following the township’s filing for a Declaratory Judgement in 2015, there had been several conferences with the FSHC and the court’s special master, Pet...

Hate, Hope and Swimming Lessons An American Summer With the First Syrians in Iowa Abdul Fattah Tameem and his family enjoy the pool on a hot summer day at the family's new apartment complex in West Des Moines , a suburb of Des Moines, Iowa." width="1520" height="1014" /> Abdul Fattah Tameem and his family enjoy the pool at the family’s new apartment complex in West Des Moines . By ROBIN SHULMAN | Photographs by DANNY WILCOX FRAZIER —VII for TIME Just over a year ago, Ghazweh Aljabooli and her husband and five children landed at the Des Moines airport and became the first refugees from Syria’s ongoing civil war to settle in Iowa . In their first summer in America, each step felt momentous . The first shopping trip to Walmart, the kids playing in a pool and taking the bus to school, all put the horrors of war further behind them—the years without sufficient food, the bombs that destroyed their house and ruined their city of Homs, the month they cam...

SYLACAUGA, Alabama – Harold Franklin never set out to attend Auburn University . The school with its agricultural heritage had little appeal for the bookish Franklin. “I used to hate when daddy grew a garden and I had to go out and help with it,” Franklin said. "That was the last place I wanted to go.” He had dreamed of being an attorney, inspired by his childhood idol Thurgood Marshall , the prominent counsel for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and first black Supreme Court justice . “I wanted to be a lawyer,” Franklin said, sitting on the couch in his two-bedroom apartment in Sylacauga below a framed photo of Samford Hall. “That was the most important thing to me.” Franklin graduated from Alabama State University , then named Alabama State College , in 1962 with a degree in government and psychology. Franklin was seeking character references for a law school application when an encounter with civil rights attorney Fred Gray put him on the track to b...

Condemned Texas inmate set to die next week gets reprieve" /> Steven Long Condemned Texas inmate set to die next week gets reprieve" /> Steven Long HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) - The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has halted next week's scheduled execution of a man condemned for the rape-slaying of an 11-year-old Dallas girl in 2005. The court said in a brief order Monday it wanted additional review of arguments that 45-year-old Steven Long is mentally impaired . The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled mentally impaired people may not be executed. Mugshots: Texas Death Row --> http://www.ktxs.com/147315846 Long was set for lethal injection Aug . 30 for the slaying of Kaitlyn Briana Smith . She disappeared May 21, 2005, after spending the night at a friend's home in her Dallas neighborhood. Her body was found in a plastic bag under a nearby vacant mobile home . Long's bloody fingerprint was found near her body. He confessed later that day, blaming the attack ...

Large fire breaks out in Hagerstown apartment building The fire broke out in the Hagerstown area of western Maryland about 70 miles northwest of the District of Columbia. The fire marshal's office says no injuries have been reported, and all 74 residents have been accounted for. Roku's Market Share Lead is Growing The company can form partnerships more easily because it doesn't promote specific content or platforms, the firm said. Its market share is up from 33 percent in the first quarter of 2016 to 37 percent in the first quarter of 2017. Rod Stewart to perform remotely on MTV Video Music Awards His new version updates the song for a new generation with DNCE , which Jonas formed a couple years ago . Stewart is now working on his first album since 2015's Another Country . New US sanctions against N. Korea could bite Earlier this month, US President Donald Trump threatened Pyongyang with "fire, fury ... the likes of which this world has never seen". ...

Granta’s online editor Luke Neima in conversation with Nicole Krauss on the genesis of her new book,  Forest Dark, her love for Kafka and the reality of ‘the self’. Luke Neima: To start with, can you tell me about the genesis of this book? Where did it come from, what inspired it? Nicole Krauss : There was no singular genesis. I remember having the feeling that I wanted to write a book that somehow evoked thousands of years of history, and at the same time the longing to break free of it. Along with that, I knew that I wanted in some way to address the waning of wonder or awe in our time, and their replacement by an obsession with factual and rational knowledge. What do we give up when we turn our backs on the unknown, in our anxious hurrying toward the comfort and stability of certainty? Why do we see not-knowing and formlessness as a temporary, less useful station on the way toward the known, rather than an authentic and even valuable state of being? Neima : The book blends elemen...