Sept. 12, 1937

The Richardson pitch was the scene of one of the toughest

soccer battles ever staged here Sunday afternoon when the Auburn United held the Syracuse Turners to a scoreless tie. It was the first battle for both teams on the 1937-38 schedule.

Sept. 12, 1957

Rocky Graziano who should be a top authority on middleweights vs. welter weights bet $100 against $1,200 today that Sugar Ray Robinson will knockout Carmen Basilio in the first round.

Sept. 12, 1997

AUBURN - The city has come up with another price tag for water wanted by the county Water and Sewer Authority. The authority, planning a network of pipes to ensure a constant source of clean water to outlying areas, has asked to buy Auburn water to supply its customers.

Sept. 12, 2002

On a bleak day clouded by mourning and memory, Americans marked the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by gathering Wednesday for solemn public rites that revealed the nation's undiminished grief. From the thousands who marched down into the scarred pit of New York's Ground Zero and up to the newly renovated walls of the Pentagon, to the tiny crowds who attended a firehouse ceremony in Coventry, Ohio, and hundreds of other memorials across the country, Americans paid respects to the 3,025 who died, and recalled a devastating day that echoed a year later with fresh warnings of new terror.

- Compiled by Linda Simmons