Deadline looms for land sales for 911 memorial

SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Today is the deadline set by the U.S. government to get all the land needed for the Flight 93 memorial in western Pennsylvania without using eminent domain.

National Park Service acting Director Dan Wenk said Thursday the land owners and the government have been working together all week to get the transaction done without seizing the land.

Last week, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said the government would use eminent domain if deals aren’t worked out by close of business today.

Flight 93 was hijacked by terrorists on Sept. 11, 2001, and crashed in rural Somerset County, about 65 miles east-southeast of Pittsburgh.