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Fort Worth, Texas A 2 4 2 0 1 3 I Air quality: Moderate Weather 7 8B 90 65 Classifieds 8-13C Comics 4-5D Crosswords 9C Editorials 7B Horoscopes 4D Lottery 2B Obituaries 4-6B Television 6D Your favorite pages Different ways to get your news. www.star-telegram.com/apps www.star-telegram.com/ipad www.facebook.com/fwstar www.twitter.com/startelegram Connect with the Star-Telegram fortworth.dealsaver.com $10 for $20 worth of hamburgers 3D 7 488727 00001 Daily 1 Sunday $2.50 Copyright Fort Worth Star-Telegram; 108th year; Issue 170; 36 pages actor walks a tightrope Joseph Gordon-Levitt shares memories of work- ing in Texas as he promotes his new project. 1D Controversial IRS official resigns The woman at the center of the scandal over inappro- priate targeting of conser- vatives quit Monday. 2A Senators split over Obamacare In a break with Tea Party conservatives, GOP leader Mitch McConnell will not back a bid to cause a partial government shutdown. 3A New bridge opening ahead of schedule The new West Seventh Street bridge over the Trinity River may open the first week of October.

1B Inside Daniel McFadden Joseph Gor- don-Levitt and Scarlett Jo- hansson star in Don Jon. Sports DeMarco Murray heard no criticism after first two games 1C FORT WORTH Bell Helicopter laid off 290 workers on Monday, mostly in Fort Worth, blaming reductions in defense spending that prompted a need to tighten costs. Both hourly and salaried em- ployees, including management, were affected by the layoffs, Bell officials said. Another 85 Bell contractors are also being trimmed, officials said. realities of our business are Bell President and CEO Jim Garrison said in a state- ment released on Monday.

questration is having an adverse impact on our industry, making the future for defense spending more uncertain than Bell Helicopter, a division of Rhode Island-based Textron, manufactures the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft, which can take off like a helicopter and fly like an airplane. It is capable of flying long distances at high speeds and Karp Bell new contract with the Pentagon reduces the build rate on the V-22 Osprey by nearly half. Company cites reductions in Defense Department spending By Yamil Berard Bell Helicopter lays off 290; Fort Worth plant hit hardest More on BELL, 7A Texas Motor Speedway is proud of its size big- gest crowd, biggest fa- cility, biggest roar. Now, biggest big- screen. The speedway an- nounced Monday that it plans to install a high- definition video board that will be the largest in the world a 218-foot- long display across the backstretch that will be almost 100 feet tall, boast 4.8 million pixels and dwarf the famed scoreboard at Stadium.

everybody raises the bar, got to as track president Eddie Gossage said. not about topping the Cowboys. about do- ing the best we can for the fans. would tell you, though, got to give Jerry and the Cow- boys all the credit, be- cause they made this a big-screen Not only will new screen, to be built by Panasonic, be bigger than the video board, it will eclipse the scoreboards installed by sister track Charlotte Motor Speedway and the Houston Texans at Re- liant Stadium. At 20,633.64 square feet of usable space, the TMS screen will be 79 percent bigger than the square-foot board.

The Texans have 14,549 square feet, and the Texas Motor Speedway N. Texas to get largest video screen The enormous high-definition board will measure 20,633.64 square feet Texas Motor illustration The Texas Motor Speedway video board will be 218 feet long and almost twice as big as the video board at Stadium in Arlington. 108 Weight, in tons, of the video display board 9 Alamo buildings would fit inside the screen area 373 NASCAR Spring Cup Series cars would fitinside the screen area 4,792,320 Numberof pixels Source: Texas Motor Speedway By Carlos Mendez More on TMS, 4A Texas Motor Speedway 218 94.6 feet 20,633 square feet Rangers Ballpark 120 42 feet 5,040 square feet Stadium 160 72 feet 11,520 square feet FORT WORTH A two- alarm fire early Monday destroyed a 101-year-old house on East Rosedale Street that has been the fo- cus of legal dispute be- tween Texas Wesleyan University, which wanted to tear it down, and Histor- ic Fort Worth, which want- ed it saved. That may be moot now that the two-story Dillow House at 3216 E. Rosedale St.

is a total loss and struc- turally unsound, said Art Brender, the attorney rep- resenting Historic Fort Worth in the suit against Wesleyan. Brender said he would wait for the Fire Depart- report before ask- ing the Historic Fort Worth Fire guts house at center of lawsuit 7 Historic Fort Worth had sued to prevent the razing of the structure. By Sandra Baker and Deanna Boyd More on FIRE, 5A NAIROBI, Kenya The bloody standoff at a Ke- nyan shopping mall edged closer to a conclusion on Monday night, with Ke- nyan officials saying that their troops were securing the building and that there were no more civilians trapped inside. Among the militants were two or three young U.S. men who appeared to be of Somali or Arab origin, foreign minister, Amina Mohamed, said Monday.

In an interview on PBS, Mohamed said the U.S. attackers were origi- nally from Minnesota or Missouri. just goes to un- derline the global nature of the war that fight- U.S. men allegedly took part in attack 7 A Kenyan official says foreigners were involved in bloody assault on mall. From wire reports More on KENYA, 8A While the number of ille- gal immigrants in the U.S.

remains below its peak, the population continues a steady climb in Texas, according to a study re- leased Monday. At its height in 2007, the illegal immigrant population reached 12.2 million in the United States. The number dipped to 11.3 million in 2009 during economic hard time, but it inched back to 11.7 million last year, according to the most recent estimates compiled by the nonpar- tisan Pew Research Cen- ter. The trend was mir- rored in five of the six states with the highest number of illegal immi- grants. But not in Texas.

The population of ille- gal immigrants slightly increased here, the center found. The center esti- mated that the number of people illegally in Texas rose to 1.75 million in 2012, up from 1.70 million in 2011. In 1990, the center estimated there were 450,000 illegal immi- grants in Texas. The Pew Research Center say in the report what led to the sit- uation in Texas, but Jef- frey Passel, senior de- mographer at the center, said the relatively stron- ger economy in the Lone Star State is Illegal immigrant population continues to increase in Texas 7 The growing numbers defy a downward trend elsewhere in the U.S. By Tim Eaton Austin American-Statesman More on MIGRATION, 6A.