Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from April 2000:
SPEND A DOLLAR, BANK A PENNY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: JEANNINE AVERSA Associated Press WASHINGTON -- American consumers, the driving force behind the supercharged economy, spent with abandon in February at a pace more than double their income growth. It dragged the personal savings rate to a record low. ...
E. COLI OUTBREAK STILL UNSOLVED.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: SYLVIA WOOD Staff writer Seven months after New York's largest and deadliest E. coli outbreak, the state released a report Friday saying the cause could not be determined. Two people died and up to 5,000 became ill after attending the Washington County Fair ...
YEAR 16: NO BUDGET BY DEADLINE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau - New York legislators begin their 16th consecutive spring today without an on-time budget. When the next state budget will be done is anyone's guess, and it wasn't supposed to happen this way anymore -- in back-room ...
UGANDA CULT DEATHS SURPASS JONESTOWN.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: HENRY WASSWA Associated Press KAMPALA, Uganda -- The death toll in the doomsday sect massacre in southwestern Uganda was raised Friday to 924, surpassing the 1978 Jonestown tragedy in Guyana as the worst modern-day cult-related mass killing. Ugandan ...
HIGH-TECH CROPS BEING CUT BACK.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: New York Times CHICAGO -- For the first time since 1996, American farmers expect to plant fewer acres with genetically engineered crops, largely because of concerns about selling those crops in international markets, the government said Friday. According to a ...
BUSH TARGETS CLINTON OVER ETHICAL FAILURES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: SANDRA SOBIERAJ Associated Press ASHWAUBENON, Wis. -- George W. Bush hit back at President Clinton on Friday, calling him ``campaign manager for Al Gore'' and describing Clinton's latest legal battle as a reminder that he has ``fallen 41 presidents short'' of his promise ...
SINGLES NIGHT AT ROSIE'S CLASS BASH.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Rosie O'Donnell is footing the bill for a 20th anniversary class reunion for fellow classmates of Commack High School South on Long Island on May 5, but spouses or significant others cannot attend. ``How can spouses not be invited? We are a part of this person's life for the ...
CHICAGO IS TWINKIES' SWEETEST KIND OF TOWN.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Twinkies, the golden, cream-filled snack cakes, on Friday marked 70 years of existence in Chicago, the city with the highest per capita Twinkie consumption in the United States. Kansas City-based Interstate Bakeries Corp., which owns Twinkies and other Hostess brands, had a ...
POLICE TIRE OF VISITING RODMAN'S NEIGHBORHOOD.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Dennis Rodman once again is living up to his rowdy reputation. Police in Newport Beach, Calif., say he's setting a record in his neighborhood for most police calls to a house, usually because of loud parties. Since the former basketball player moved in, officers have ...
DICAPRIO QUIZZES PRESIDENT ON ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Friday was no day at ``The Beach'' for Leonardo DiCaprio -- it was a day at the White House, interviewing President Clinton. The 25-year-old actor, whose latest role was that of an amoral backpacker in search of the perfect beach, assumed the role of journalist for ABC to interview ...
PANEL PROBES ASSIGNMENTS TO CLINTON NOMINEES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A special panel is beginning an investigation of the chief federal judge in the District of Columbia because she assigned six Whitewater and campaign fund-raising prosecutions to Clinton appointees. Appeals Judge Stephen ...
CSX REVIEWS RAIL WORK AFTER FEDERAL STUDY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WASHINGTON -- CSX Transportation announced an internal review of its track maintenance Friday after federal railroad inspectors found deteriorating conditions in its system used by passenger, freight and commuter trains up and down the East Coast. ...
BOY TELLS JUDGE HE DIDN'T FATALLY SHOOT CLASSMATE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press FLINT, Mich. -- With little more than his eyes and nose visible over the witness stand, a 6-year-old boy denied Friday that he shot classmate Kayla Rolland to death and blamed another first-grader. The boy testified at a preliminary hearing ...
U.N. OBSERVER TESTIFIES ABOUT GENOCIDE THREAT.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press THE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A U.N. military observer testified Friday in the genocide trial of Gen. Radislav Krstic that Bosnian Serb commanders planned to wipe out the Muslim population of Srebrenica in 1995 if they refused to leave. Lt ....
ELIAN KIN HARDEN STANCE ON CUSTODY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: MILDRADE CHERFILS Associated Press MIAMI -- Elian Gonzalez's Miami relatives said Friday that they are no longer willing to hand the boy over to his father if he comes to Florida to await the outcome of their court appeal, in an escalation of the custody battle that has ...
VOLCANO IN JAPAN ERUPTS A 3RD TIME.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: KOJI SASAHARA Associated Press DATE, Japan -- A volcano in northern Japan erupted twice today, a day after it roared to life and sent a spectacular plume of molten rock and ash billowing two miles above the crater and rolling down the snow-quilted slopes. ...
RUSSIA NEEDS TO BECOME NATION OF LAWS, PUTIN SAYS.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times MOSCOW -- A Russian state with fewer nuclear weapons, laws that are firmly enforced and a working market system: President Vladimir V. Putin said Friday that he plans to make it all happen. In his first substantial comments on policy since ...
WAR ON DRUGS HELPS MAGAZINES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: ALEX KUCZYNSKI and MARC LACEY New York Times Under a little-known financial agreement, the Office of National Drug Control Policy has indirectly encouraged magazines to include anti-drug messages in their editorial content. An article in the online magazine ...
NURSES STRIKE AT MASSACHUSETTS SITE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: Associated Press WORCESTER, Mass. -- Hundreds of nurses, some fresh from work with white uniforms and stethoscopes, went on strike Friday at St. Vincent Hospital, saying its big corporate owner wants to bolster profits at the expense of staff and patients. ...
GAMBLING'S NO GAME.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... It's Final Four weekend, and time to ponder who doesn't have a wager or two, from a bracket in the office pool to high-stakes action, riding on the college basketball championship. Betting on college sports, which is supposed to be illegal in all but a handful of states, is more pervasive ...
E-MAIL ME THE ROSETTA STONE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: ANDY ROONEY If I'm in a hurry reading the newspaper, I don't pause for long over something I don't understand. I figure it isn't important enough to spend any time worrying about it. The other day, though, I read a story that was very important. I wouldn't ...
PROPOSALS SEEK TO LIGHTEN THE STATE'S TAX BURDEN.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: NEIL D. BRESLIN Member New York State Senate Albany New York holds the dubious distinction of being one of the states with highest taxes in the nation, and it's primarily because our local tax burden is double the national average. And worse, one of the biggest reasons ...
TAKING ISSUE WITH POWER-PLANT SITING-LAW STORY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: DAVID M. ALLEN SUSAN L. TAYLOR Cohen, Dax & Koenig, P.C. Albany We write to take issue with your coverage of the March 15 conference held at Albany Law School regarding the state's power-plant siting law, Article X of the Public Service Law. The headline accompanying ...
SOCIAL SECURITY SHOULD BE RESERVED FOR RETIREES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: HAROLD KASPER Albany The writer is retired unemployment insurance director for the state Department of Labor. - Your front-page article of March 23 explains the U.S. Senate's passage of a bill enacting the removal of all penalties from Social Security (old age) payments ...
WAIVE GAS TAX TO BOLSTER TRAVEL DURING SUMMER.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: SHELDON SILVER Assembly Speaker Albany In recent months, motorists throughout New York have been forced to dig deeper into their pockets to pay for the rising cost of gasoline. Some pumps already read over $2 per gallon. This increase can be a real hardship for ...
PRAISE FOR SPONSORS OF HEALTH PROGRAM AT MALL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: SYMA TABACHNECK Albany My family had the privilege of attending the ``Journey Through the Body'' show at Colonie Center and sponsored by St. Peter's Hospital, Mercycare Corp. and News Channel 13. Hats off to the sponsors and all the ...
ADVICE FOR BUSH?: BETTER GET A NEW ADVISER.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: GARRY WILLS A front-page article in The New York Times tells us that George W. Bush must win the women's vote in order to win the presidency. Ann Coulter, one of the interchangeable blond right-wing commentators, says that he can do that easily: ``Chicks like ...
OIL CRISIS A GREAT INVENTION.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: ROBERT RENO The oil crisis of 2000 is now a thoroughly exhausted, not to say dead, cow. For a crisis that never really existed, it is a splendid example of our capacity to invent grave national problems during those recurrent periods when there is relative ...
A BIG CHALLENGE FOR PUTIN AND RUSSIA.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: LEON ARON Vladimir Putin faces a fundamental and unavoidable choice, one that will be at least as fateful as the one made by the Russians almost four years ago, when they gave Boris Yeltsin the victory over the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov. He must choose ...
REALITY OF FINANCE REFORM.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: THOMAS SOWELL In many countries around the world, for centuries on end, those with wealth have had to pay tribute to those with power. Yet today, when the same thing happens in our own country, the press stands the situation on its head and demands ``campaign finance ...
MOTHER GETS 19 TO LIFE FOR KILLING BABY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer After expressing regret for her actions, a 24-year-old Altamont woman was sentenced Friday to 19 years to life in prison for the suffocation murder of her newborn daughter three years ago. Melissa Strawbridge showed no emotion as ...
LEAGUE FUNDING WITHHELD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: THEOLA S. LABBE Staff writer The United Way has frozen monthly grant payments totaling $10,000 for three Urban League programs until the agency settles a federal tax lien and submits overdue financial statements. Executive Vice President Bruce R. Stanley also ...
PLANE WRECKAGE YIELDS FEW CLUES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: LINDA TRISCHITTA Staff writer An investigator probing a crash that killed a flight instructor and his student said Friday he had not yet discovered evidence that mechanical failure contributed to the accident and cautioned that the cause may be unknown for six months. ...
PROSECUTION TESTS ALLOWED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: MELISSA GRACE Staff writer Saratoga County prosecutors will be allowed to test the hair, blood and fingernail scrapings of a teen accused of murdering a 91-year-old Colonie widow. Attorneys for Jeffrey T. Hampshire, 19, asked a state appeals court to block ...
E. COLI SHUTS DINING HALL AT UALBANY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: BRUCE A. SCRUTON Staff writer The University at Albany's Indian Quad dining hall was closed Friday after two students who ate there were confirmed with cases of E. coli infection, university officials said. Notices went up on campus late Friday afternoon ...
RELEASE OF VICTIM'S RECORDS DEFENDED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: DONNA DE LA CRUZ Associated Press NEW YORK -- Mayor Rudolph Giuliani and Police Commissioner Howard Safir decided to release sealed records of an unarmed man fatally shot by police because of past experience: in three other cases involving people killed by cops, those ...
FIRST LADY USES CHAIN-TYPE LETTER TO RAISE FUNDS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: SERGIO BUSTOS Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- The day after her expected Senate opponent Rudolph Giuliani boasted raising $19 million for his campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday dashed off a hasty e-mail message to supporters begging them to do two things: Send ...
WOMAN KILLED IN CRASH WITH COP ON WAY TO A FATALITY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press WATERVILLE -- One tragedy spawned another when a 70-year-old woman died after the car she was in collided with a state police car as a trooper responded to a logging accident that left a state prison guard dead. Shirley Lockwood died ...
ONEIDA INDIANS SUE COUNTY TO STOP FORECLOSURES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press SYRACUSE -- The Oneida Indian Nation filed a lawsuit in federal court Friday to stop Madison County from foreclosing on more than a dozen tribal properties for overdue taxes. It is the second time in two months that the Oneidas have gone to ...
MAN CONVICTED OF FRAUD OFFERED REDUCED TERM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press NEW YORK -- A judge Friday offered a Syracuse businessman accused of engineering the largest pyramid scam in history the chance to win back 10 years of his life by giving all his assets to cheated investors, thus reducing his yet-to-be-imposed prison ...
MORE PROBLEM GAMBLERS PLAY QUICK DRAW WEEKLY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ALBANY -- Regular weekly players of the state Lottery's Quick Draw game in 1999 were more likely to be black or Hispanic and to be making less money than weekly players did in 1996, a Pataki administration study released Friday said. The ...
SAFETY CLASSES NOW LESSON IN POLITICS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ State editor After years of fighting fires and riding an ambulance, Jeffrey Malo got an idea: What if there was a safety course for homeowners, like a defensive driving course? Wouldn't it reduce the risk of accidents? And wouldn't it be ...
PATAKI AHEAD IN POLLS FOR 3RD TERM IN 2002.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: LARA JAKES Political writer AlbanyTwo years before the next New York gubernatorial election, GOP incumbent Gov. George Pataki is leading his two top potential Democratic rivals in a poll released Friday by the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. But the ...
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... AMNESTY JUICE AND JUSTICE. 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Sunday, 110 Spring St., Saratoga Springs. Write letters on behalf of prisoners of conscience worldwide. Sponsored by the Open Space Project. 587-5554. ARMENIAN HERITAGE DAY. 12-4 p.m. Sunday, State Museum. Art, live music and dancing, ...
PLANS TO SELL ALBANY WATER REMAIN ON TAP.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Staff writer The city's more than year-old plan of plunging into the bottled water market by selling its surplus from the Alcove Reservoir hasn't dried up, officials say. It's just trickling along a little slower than expected. Water ...
APPIO, ALBERT L.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... COLONIE -- Albert L. Appio, 74, of Colonie, died Wednesday, March 29, 2000 at Albany Memorial Hospital. He was born in Albany and served in the US Navy during World War II. He was a member of Operating Engineer Local #106 for 40 years. He was a member of Musicians Local #17 and the Wig ...
CASTLE, CONCETTA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... WATERFORD -- Concetta `Connie` Castle, 84, of 2nd St., died Thursday at Schuyler Ridge Health Care Center, after a long illness. Born and educated in Waterford, she was a lifelong resident. She was daughter of the late Panfilo and Angeline Puglielli LaGatta. Mrs. Castle had been employed ...
EICHLER, ELIZABETH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... ALBANY -- Elizabeth (Betty) Eichler, age 95, of the Albany County Nursing Home, died Friday morning at the nursing home. Betty was born in NYC and resided in the Scranton, PA area for many years, where she was educated. She later moved to the Capital District. She was married to Herman ...
ENOCH, LAWRENCE V.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... SCOTIA -- Lawrence V. Enoch, 95, died Wednesday at the Baptist Nursing Home, after a long illness. Born in Parkersburgh, WV, he lived in Guilderland for many years. He was a retired real estate broker and a member of the Mercedes Club and the Telegraphers Club of Albany. Husband of the ...
FLOOD, KATHRYN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Kathryn Barber Flood, 79, died Friday, March 31, 2000 at the Wesley Health Care Facility, Saratoga Springs. Kathryn loved the decorative arts and had taught decorative art painting for several years. More recently, she worked as a nutritionist at the Warren County ...
HALSE, BLANCHE A.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... BRUNSWICK -- Blanche A. Halse, 58, of Mellon Avenue, died Thursday evening , March 30, 2000 at her home, after a brief illness, surrounded by her loving family. Born in Troy on December 22, 1941, she was the daughter of the late Mortimer and Margaret E. Conovor Barbour. She was raised in ...
RACE, HOWARD C. SR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... EAST GREENBUSH -- Howard C. Race Sr., 67, died Thursday at the VA Medical Center. Born in Hillsdale, NY, son of the late Clyde and Viola Minkler Race, he attended Roe Jan High School. He resided in Defreestville for many years and then moved to East Greenbush. He was a U.S. Army combat ...
REIMANN, JOANN M.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... RENSSELAER -- Joann M. Butler Reimann, passed away on Friday, March 31, 2000 at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany. Daughter of the late Myron and Helen Butler. She is survived by her husband, William R. Reimann and daughter, Helena M. Reimann. She is also survived by 10 siblings, Mrs ....
SHER, BERTHA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... GREAT BARRINGTON, MA -- Bertha Sher, age 84, of the Willowood Health Care Center, Great Barrington, MA, died Friday morning at the Health Care Center, after a long illness. Miss Sher was born in Albany, where she resided most of her life. She was the daughter of the late Isadore and Dinci ...
SHMALTS, ILYA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... SCHENECTDAY -- Ilya Shmalts, 90, of Rosehill Blvd., Niskayuna, died March 30. Mr. Shmalts was born and lived in Russia most of his life. He immigrated to the United States in December 1997 to Schenectady. He worked as a lawyer in Russia. Mr. Shmalts was predeceased by his wife, Eugeniya ....
STEVENSON, FLORENCE J.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... ALBANY -- Florence J. Stevenson, 86, of Albany, died Friday, March 31, 2000 at her home. Miss Stevenson was born in Albany, the daughter of the late Michael D. Stevenson, M.D. and Florence Cleary Stevenson. She was employed by the Albany Medical Center Hospital for over 25 years, and was ...
WESSINGER, GEORGE D.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... GUILDERLAND -- George D. Wessinger, 87, died Wednesday, March 30th, after a long illness at the Guilderland Center Nursing Home. Born in Cherryville, NC, he was the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Benjamin D. Wessinger. Mr. Wessinger graduated valedictorian of his class at Florida Southern ...
LAWYER CALLS ARREST OF OFFICER POLITICAL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer The attorney representing the most recent member of the Rensselaer County Sheriff's Department to be arrested for alleged misuse of sick time said Friday that the case seems to be part of a political agenda within the department that also has ...
MENINGITIS SCARE WAS FALSE ALARM.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: SYLVIA WOOD Staff writer A University at Albany student suspected of having meningitis is not sick with the bacteria after all, but campus officials still are urging students to get vaccinated against the highly contagious -- and sometimes fatal -- illness. ...
PLAZA BUILDING FIRE ACCIDENTAL, INVESTIGATORS FIND.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: JAY JOCHNOWITZ State editor AlbanyInvestigators on Friday said a fire a day earlier in Agency Building 3 at the Empire State Plaza was accidental, caused by spontaneous combustion of chemical-soaked cloths in an unventilated room on the 19th floor. The ...
ARMY NATIONAL GUARD UNIT TO TRAIN FOR BOSNIA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: CHRIS STURGIS Staff writer For the first time in the history of the New York Army National Guard, a female officer will command a unit being activated for an overseas peacekeeping mission. Capt. Linda Thorburn, commander of the 138th Mobile Public Affairs ...
DRIVERS CHARGED WITH DWI AFTER HITTING SAME TRUCK.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Bruce A. Scruton COLONIE -- Two drivers who separately ran into a car carrier on Central Avenue early Friday morning now face drunken driving charges, town police said. The two accidents, a half-hour apart, occurred in front of Colonie Toyota, where a ...
MAN ON PROBATION FACES NEW HEROIN CHARGES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Bruce A. Scruton ALBANY -- A 32-year-old city resident, already on probation for heroin charges, was arrested by Albany County sheriff's deputies Thursday after police said they found him with 20 bags of heroin in his pocket. Edward Rivera of Green Street ...
MAN CHARGED IN ROBBERIES AT ALBANY SMOKE SHOP.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: -- Carol DeMare ALBANY -- An Arbor Hill man was behind bars Friday after a downtown Albany store clerk picked him out of a police photo book as an alleged robber, police said. Charged with two counts of first-degree robbery was Bradford Carter, 34, of 26 Swan ...
THE MADNESS ENTERS FINAL DAYS OF PLAY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2000 ... Byline: United Features Syndicate March Madness enters its final phase as CBS pre-empts its primetime lineup for coverage of the NCAA Basketball Tournament (5:30 p.m., WRGB Ch. 6). What will we do in April? Maybe spend time with our families? The Independent Film ...