Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from September 2001:
BUDGET BATTLE STRAINS SCHOOLS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: RICK KARLIN Staff writer With the deadline for setting property tax rates today and the budget gridlock between the governor and Legislature still intact, school districts across the Capital Region have been struggling to balance their books -- with the result being ...
VENDOR VIOLATIONS EMERGE IN HOMESTRETCH.(BUSINESS)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: JIM ROGALSKI Saratoga County bureau chief Inspectors flunked food vendors 27 times at Saratoga Race Course recently, but the state Department of Health withheld the results until near the end of the track season, raising questions about whether officials hoped to avoid ...
WHITNEY RESIGNS SPAC POSITION.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: STEVE BARNES Arts editor Marylou Whitney resigned from the board of directors of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center earlier this week, the final gesture in a history of disagreements between her and longtime SPAC chief Herb Chesbrough, who Whitney believes is paid too ...
INJURY FINISHES POINT GIVEN'S CAREER.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: TIM WILKIN Staff writer - Point Given, who a week ago today lit up Saratoga Race Course with a rousing win before a record crowd in the Travers, was retired from racing Friday. A strained tendon in his left foreleg ended the magnificent 3-year-old chestnut ...
2 SHOT DEAD AS GUNMAN FLEES.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: DENNIS YUSKO Staff writer Two men were shot dead on Swinton Street late Friday night and police continued their search for suspects early this morning. The killings occurred around 11:40 p.m. near the intersection of Swinton and Thornton streets, according to ...
MCDONALD'S HOPES TO TAP INTO TRUST OF CUSTOMERS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: DAVID BARBOZA New York Times CHICAGO -- McDonald's is having a $10 million instant giveaway this weekend. But don't ask people at the hamburger restaurant's counter about it, they might not have heard. ``I have no idea, to tell you the truth,'' said a clerk ...
DIANA MOURNED IN PUBLIC AND PRIVATE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Princess Diana's sons marked the fourth anniversary of her death in private Friday while a devoted core of admirers bore their tokens of remembrance to the palace gates that have become an unofficial public shrine in London. Tears slid down the painted face of ``Garibaldi'' the ...
SEN. HUTCHISON, HUSBAND ADOPT A BABY GIRL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, has become ``Senator Mom.'' Hutchison, 58, and her husband, Ray, 68, have adopted an infant, Kathryn Bailey Hutchison, who will be called Bailey. ``It's just a dream come true for us,'' the senator said Friday. ``We've wanted to ...
MR. ROGERS LEAVES NEIGHBORHOOD SMILING.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... After Lady Elaine awarded everybody first place in an arts contest in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and the Trolley rang its bell and rolled around the corner, Fred Rogers looked at the camera and said in that voice of unconditional love: "I like being your television neighbor. It's ...
CONDIT DISTRICT FACES OVERHAUL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Lawmakers unveiled a California redistricting plan Friday that would apparently give Democrats only one additional seat in Congress next year -- not the two or three national party leaders had hoped for -- and overhaul the district ...
AMERICANS WORKING LONGER HOURS ANNUALLY, REPORT FINDS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: STEVEN GREENHOUSE New York Times A United Nations agency provided some discouraging news Friday to Americans who believe they are overworked, finding that American workers have increased their substantial lead over Japan and all other industrial nations in the number of ...
MAN HELD IN SLAYINGS OF 7 IOWANS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press SIOUX CITY, Iowa -- A 23- year-old man was arrested Friday on suspicion of killing his girlfriend, her five children and an acquaintance in what a shaken police chief called the worst mass murder in the city's history. Adam Matthew Moss, 23, ...
MOBS ATTACK MACEDONIA LAWMAKERS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: BRIAN MURPHY Associated Press SKOPJE, Macedonia -- Macedonia's fragile peace effort moved Friday into the hands of lawmakers stuck between two powerful forces: NATO leaders expecting support and mobs outraged that ethnic Albanian insurgents may be rewarded with greater ...
MOTHER'S SUICIDE ATTEMPT DETAILED.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: PAM EASTON Associated Press HOUSTON -- A woman accused of drowning her five children told a doctor two years ago that she tried to kill herself because she was afraid she might ``hurt somebody,'' according to medical records filed Friday. Andrea Pia Yates, ...
U.S. POSTPONING ITS PROPOSAL ON REFORM OF IMMIGRATION RULES.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: MIKE ALLEN Washington Post WASHINGTON -- President Bush is developing a Mexican guest worker program that would encourage participants to learn English but will not have a plan ready when Mexican President Vicente Fox visits next week, administration officials said ...
SOCIAL SECURITY CHECKS GO TO DEAD.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: DAVID PACE Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Social Security paid $31 million through the end of last year to dead people who were listed as deceased in the agency's own electronic files, auditors say. One woman who died in November 1993 was still receiving ...
FORMER BUSH AIDE SENTENCED OVER TAPE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas -- A former aide to George W. Bush's campaign media adviser was sentenced Friday to a year in prison and fined $3,000 for mailing a Bush debate practice videotape to Al Gore's campaign. Juanita Yvette Lozano, 31, who pleaded ...
MAN EXECUTED AFTER PLEAS FOR CLEMENCY ARE IGNORED.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. -- A man who said his lawyer bungled his defense because he was drinking up to 12 shots of rum a night during the trial was executed by injection early Friday for the 1983 stabbing death of his landlord. Ronald Wayne Frye, ...
NETSCAPE CHIEF WITHHOLDS DONATION OVER POLICY.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Netscape founder Jim Clark is withholding $60 million he pledged to build a biomedical research center at Stanford University to protest President Bush's restrictions on stem cell research and congressional attempts to ban human ...
ISLAMIC AFGHANS CLOSE CHRISTIAN AID OFFICES.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Associated Press KABUL, Afghanistan -- Afghanistan's hard-line Islamic rulers closed the offices of two Christian aid organizations Friday -- less than a month after shutting down a German-based group and arresting its staff for allegedly preaching Christianity. ...
ARAFAT ACCUSES ISRAEL OF RACISM.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: RAVI NESSMAN Associated Press DURBAN, South Africa -- The Middle East dominated the opening of the world conference against racism Friday as Yassir Arafat accused Israel of ``racist practices'' against the Palestinian people. The Palestinian leader's sharp ...
DEAF MAN CITES ORDEAL IN JAIL.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: ANANDA SHOREY Associated Press WASHINGTON -- A deaf, mentally ill man who spent two years in a District of Columbia jail after his misdemeanor charges had been dropped, said Friday that he was ignored, mistreated and kept in isolation. Joseph Heard, 42, was ...
FREEH'S ACTIONS IN SPY CASE CITED.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- Then-FBI Director Louis Freeh supported pulling the security clearance of Wen Ho Lee as early as fall 1997 because of suspicions the nuclear scientist was spying, but his advice went unheeded, secret sections of a government report show. ...
HIV LIKELY TO BE MORE TENACIOUS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The share of HIV infections that are drug-resistant will jump to 42 percent in San Francisco by 2005, according to a team of researchers. Estimating the current rate of drug resistance to the virus at 28.5 percent, the group ...
EXIT MR. BOWEN.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... It hardly required the critical thinking abilities expected of students at the State University College at New Paltz, or anywhere else in the SUNY system, to sense that Roger Bowen was doomed as the campus president, almost from the start. Mr. Bowen had been at New Paltz for ...
ST. FRANCIS WOULD HAVE BEEN A BIG FAN OF THE WEB.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... In the 13th century, a man by the name of Francis of Assisi brought religion into the marketplace. His popular preaching, simple and direct, affected the lives of many people. For Francis, the marketplace was the world. In the 21st century, there is a new marketplace that Francis would use ...
EVERY COLLEGE STUDENT SHOULD READ `LAST CALL'.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... I want to recognize the Times Union, Paul Grondahl, and all the contributors to the articles on ``Last Call'' in the Aug. 26 paper. Collectively, the articles gave a thoughtful overview of very real and complex issues. From my professional experience, I know that most parents believe that ...
TIMESUNION.COM IS A HOME AWAY FROM HOME.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... My family's roots are in the Capital Region. I went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute for two years. I make my way to the family cabin in Alps every year even though I have moved to Tempe, Ariz. The beauty of the area, its history, its personal memories and fantastic weather brings me ...
ECONOMY WILL BENEFIT FROM REDUCED SURPLUS.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Based on your editorial, ``A disappearing surplus'' (Aug. 24), this must come as a surprise to you, but the 1920s are over! No matter how comforting the superstition that the federal government is just like junior's lemonade stand may be, it is quite simply not true. The money ...
LATE TALKERS OFTEN ARE MISDIAGNOSED.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: THOMAS SOWELL What have famed pianist Arthur Rubinstein, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, India's self-taught mathematical genius Ramanujan, Nobel Prize-winning economist Gary Becker, talk show host G. Gordon Liddy and renowned physicists Richard Feynman, Edward Teller ...
ENDLESS NATURE OF BASELESS HATRED BY LEE HOCKSTADER.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... JERUSALEM -- There is little in this city to suggest hope these days. The emotional aftershock and violent aftermath of the terror attack Aug. 9, in which a Palestinian suicide bomber killed himself and 15 others in a Sbarro pizzeria, has left Jerusalem bitter and on edge. Fear of what ...
ROCK SOLID POLITICAL MARRIAGES.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: STEPHANIE SALTER SAN FRANCISCO -- How many more Gary Condit-type scandals will it take before the finger waggers and doomsayers understand that they've got it all wrong? Philandering congressmen (and presidents) aren't evidence of a breakdown in societal ...
ARSON SUSPECTED AS DOZENS DIE IN FIRE.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... TOKYO -- A fire in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment and sex-trade district early today killed at least 44 people and badly injured three others in the city's deadliest blaze since World War II. Japan's Kyodo News agency reported that police suspect arson, but officials declined ...
LABOR DAY WEEKEND.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Holiday forecast: Nothing but sunny skies and moderate temperatures will take the Capital Region all the way through to Tuesday. Nights will be cool and clear. On the road: 1(800) THRUWAY or (847-8929) for ...
ONE PROCEDURE, NO LAWSUIT.(MAIN)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: ANDY ROONEY Today I want to talk about something I'd rather not talk about. Three years ago, my doctor suggested I should have a colonoscopy to check for cancerous growths in those nether regions of my body. ``You suspect something?'' I asked ...
WEST NILE RETURNS TO REGION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writer Two dead crows found in Albany have tested positive for West Nile virus, the first evidence of the potentially deadly infection in the Capital Region this year, health officials announced Friday. The birds, both adult females, were ...
DRUG BUST YIELDS CRACK, CASH AND GUNS.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: DENNIS YUSKO Staff writer City police seized 13 ounces of crack cocaine, two loaded guns and about $18,500 in small bills during two related drug arrests Friday. Anthony Buchanan, 32, of 677 Third St. faces felony charges of weapons possession, criminal ...
DRIVER INDICTED IN YOUNGSTER'S DEATH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: TIM O'BRIEN Staff writer A motorist accused of striking a 12-year-old East Greenbush boy and leaving him to die was indicted on criminally negligent homicide charges by a Clinton County grand jury Friday. A second motorist police say stopped and refused pleas ...
LAW CLASS STARTS JOURNEY TO BAR.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: JACQUELYN SWEARINGEN Staff writer With the economy teetering, Lucas Mihuta is glad to be starting Albany Law School this fall on his way toward a career in the FBI that he has dreamed of since childhood. ``Coming out of an undergraduate program, it is tough to ...
MONTH'S DRY SPELL ENDS WITH A SPLASH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: DENNIS YUSKO and ANDREW TILGHMAN Staff writers Heavy thunderstorms pounded the Capital Region late Friday, complicating the start of the Labor Day weekend and causing headaches for rescue and utility workers. The storms, which moved into the area from the ...
TEENAGER CHARGED IN 2 KILLINGS IS ARMY DESERTER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press ELIZABETHTOWN -- An 18-year-old Army deserter faces murder charges in the shooting deaths of his step-uncle and a Quebec man, following a manhunt that led officers from the Catskills to the Canadian border and back. Ronald Caruso, a native of ...
POLICE STEP UP HUNT FOR BANK ROBBERS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO -- Police and FBI agents searched Friday for three violent bank robbers who have terrorized customers and employees during three ``takeover'' robberies in as many weeks. The robberies have grown increasingly violent, ...
PATAKI HINTS AT DEAL ON BUDGET.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: GLENN BLAIN and ERIKA ROSENBERG Gannett News Service WHITE PLAINS -- Gov. George Pataki said Friday that state leaders have made ``a lot of progress'' in budget talks and could agree on how much to hike state spending on schools and other programs within days -- possibly ...
BILL SIGNED TO SPEED POWER PLANT REVIEWS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: MICHAEL GORMLEY Associated Press ALBANY -- Gov. George Pataki on Friday signed a bill that will speed the process for reviewing plans to modernize old power plants to increase electricity production while reducing air pollution. The law will hasten the review ...
PANEL CENSURES JUSTICE FOR ABUSES IN OFFICE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ALBANY -- A town justice who once jailed teens who had no lawyers to teach them a lesson has been censured, officials said Friday. The state Commission on Judicial Conduct found that Chesterfield Town Justice Richard Rock disregarded the ...
SUFFOLK COUNTY LEGISLATOR APOLOGIZES FOR COMMENTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Associated Press HAUPPAUGE -- A Suffolk County legislator apologized Thursday for commenting that residents would ``be out with baseball bats'' if undocumented immigrant workers ``attacked'' a Long Island town. ``It is clear to me that my words ...
MCCAIN TAPES COMMERCIAL IN SUPPORT OF BLOOMBERG.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... NEW YORK -- Arizona Sen. John McCain has taped a television commercial on behalf of Michael Bloomberg, the billionaire media mogul who is spending millions of his own money in a bid to win the Republican nomination for mayor. ``It's a tough job being mayor of New York City. And ...
MISSING DOG RETURNED TO BROOKLYN WOMAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Associated Press PLATTSBURGH -- A Brooklyn woman found Ghandi, her missing poodle, in northern New York eight days after a car crash sent him scampering into the woods. Gretta Sabinson returned home with her beloved pet Thursday. The 1-year-old ...
RESULTS AT SARATOGA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Vendors at Saratoga Race Course that failed health inspections: Aug. 1: Club Terrace Kitchen: One chicken found at 118 degrees. We discarded; hamburger found at 120 degrees; pair of chicken breasts found at 132 degrees, discarded. Main Kitchen in Clubhouse: Chicken being ...
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... ALL-AMERICAN LABOR DAY BARBECUE. 11 a.m. Monday. Rail Pavilion, Saratoga Race Course. 584-6200 ext. 4750. $20, adults; $13, children under 12.ARTS AND CRAFTS FESTIVAL. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. today and Sunday. Town Hall, Bolton Landing. 644-3831. Free. BREWERS FESTIVAL. Noon to ...
SUNY CHANCELLOR VISITS MOSCOW.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... In February, a host of Russian university leaders came to the Capital Region with the promise of expanding their relationship with the State University of New York. Today, SUNY Chancellor Robert King is expected to return the favor in Moscow. King will give remarks during the ...
MAN INDICTED IN ROBBERY OF CABDRIVER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer A city teenager was indicted Friday for allegedly robbing a cabdriver with a younger cousin earlier this week. Samuel Alston, 19, of Lark Drive was charged with two counts of second-degree robbery in connection with a gunpoint holdup ...
MAN ADMITS SHOOTING GIRLFRIEND DURING FIGHT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer A 42-year-old Saratoga man pleaded guilty Friday to shooting his girlfriend in the face with a .357-caliber revolver when they argued last November, District Attorney James A. Murphy III said. Jack J. Straight admitted that on ...
JENNINGS TO PUT RADIO SHOW ON HOLD FOR RACE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings will put his weekly radio call-in show on hiatus for the last leg of his re-election campaign. One day after Joseph Sullivan, Jennings' Republican opponent, said he would demand equal time on the airwaves ...
INDICTED DOCTOR HAS CLEAN WORK RECORD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer A doctor accused of illegally dispensing painkillers and defrauding insurance companies has had no previous misconduct problems, a state Health Department spokeswoman said Friday. Dr. Arvinder Singh, 47, of Loudonville, was named in a ...
POLICE BELIEVE SUSPECT BROKE INTO DOZENS OF CARS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Dennis Yusko ROTTERDAM -- Police believe a 19-year-old man arrested early Friday on petit larceny charges may be responsible for at least 30 or more car break-ins. Robert Baia of 1733 Crane St. was arrested by investigators Chris Foster and Mike Brown, who ...
COURT HEARING THURSDAY FOR OWNER OF PIT BULLS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Theola S. Labbe SCHENECTADY -- A City Court hearing is scheduled for Thursday for the owner of two pit bulls whose animals set upon a Scotia man, leaving him hospitalized. Judge Karen Drago set the hearing date on Friday for Maurice Roscoe. She did not ...
SCHENECTADY BROWNFIELDS APPROVED FOR CLEANUP.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Dina Cappiello Three brownfield sites in Schenectady have a chance at a new life. On Friday, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved three properties where it will assist the city in assessing environmental contaminants and redevelopment. ...
LOOK OUT, WEEDS: UNION HAS YOUR NUMBER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer Union College President Roger Hull, leading by example, will join an army of about 500 freshmen conducting a massive cleanup of downtown today. The annual community service effort by the students, created by Hull in 1995, will include ...
RENSSELAER COP FACES FELONY CHARGES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: BOB GARDINIER Staff writer A 10-year veteran police sergeant was suspended from duty Friday after he was charged with forgery for allegedly altering college transcript records to cover up a failing grade in a community college course. Officer Thomas E ....
FACES OF FAITH.(RELIGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Name: The Rev. Dave Martin is pastor of the Hope United Methodist Church in Brunswick Background: Born and raised in Kalamazoo, Mich. Graduate of Albion College and Yale Divinity School. Ordained in 1991. Married with three children. Prayer celebration: Taize, a midweek prayer ...
EXPLORING THE MEANING OF MIDLIFE.(RELIGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: JIM HALE A recent British poll found Madonna ranked as the most envied celebrity among 30-year-old females. I was surprised at first. Men maybe, but what would draw young women in their prime to one who was entering the waters of middle age? It seems her success, fame, ...
MANY INVESTORS SWAYED BY THEIR FAITH.(RELIGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: ADELLE M. BANKS Religion News Service More than half the nation's investors are influenced by their religious beliefs when they make financial choices, a survey released by Mennonite Mutual Aid shows. Fifty-six percent of all U.S. investors said they include ...
CONDIT'S ORDEAL MIRRORS SUFFERING IN `THE SCARLET LETTER'.(RELIGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... Byline: ANDREW GREELEY The country does not seem to have changed much since the days about which Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote in his novel ``The Scarlet Letter.'' Adultery is still a public crime. The adulterer must be pilloried and destroyed. Congressman Gary Condit is ...
CAPITAL REGION ALMANAC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Sep 01, 2001 ... This almanac of community news provides coverage of local governments, local courts and police calls from selected communities in our region. Government listings focus on communities in Albany County, and police calls are taken from the actual police blotters from larger communities ...