Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from December 2001:
OK, TIME'S UP: IT'S HANDS-FREE OR HANG IT UP.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer Hang up and drive. The one-month grace period for violators of the new cellphone law ended Friday. Now cops say they will write you up if they spot you chatting away while steering with one hand. But State Police officials ...
PATAKI REACHES OUT TO EPA ON DREDGING.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writer ALBANY -- With the final Hudson River dredging order expected to be in the hands of the state this coming week, Gov. George Pataki telephoned U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Christie Whitman to urge that the final cleanup ...
LETTER EYED IN ANTHRAX DEATH.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: SETH BORENSTEIN, SUMANA CHATTERJEE and LENNY SAVINO Knight Ridder WASHINGTON -- Traces of anthrax discovered on a letter sent to a home near a 94-year-old Connecticut woman led health officials Friday to speculate that contaminated mail may have caused her Nov. 21 death ....
`QUIET BEATLE' SPOKE THROUGH HIS MUSIC.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: GEOFF BOUCHER Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES -- George Harrison, the shy lead guitarist of the Beatles who added a spiritual pilgrim's sensibility to the band's massive cultural impact, has died. He was 58. Harrison died at 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Los Angeles ...
TRIBAL ALLIES DELAY FIGHTING.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: RAJIV CHANDRASEKARAN and JOHN POMFRET Washington Post - QUETTA, Pakistan -- U.S. warplanes conducted withering airstrikes Friday against Taliban defenses around Kandahar, but as the United States redoubled its air campaign to smash the last holdout of Taliban rule, ...
IT'S A GIRL FOR JAPANESE ROYAL COUPLE.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... After more than eight years of marriage to Japan's royal heir, Crown Princess Masako gave birth to a baby girl today, her first child. According to the Imperial Household Agency in Tokyo, both mother and baby were in good condition. The birth occurred at 2:43 p.m. Tokyo time, or ...
WHAT COULD `IT' BE? WE'LL FIND OUT MONDAY.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Word that Dean Kamen finally will reveal his latest invention next week has sparked a flurry of activity on a Web site devoted to the secret project. Kamen plans to introduce the invention, called ``Ginger'' or ``IT,'' on ABC's ``Good Morning America'' on Monday. ABC's parent ...
MEXICAN TRUCK BILL ADVANCES.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press WASHINGTON -- The House approved restrictions Friday on Mexican trucks driving into the United States that are stricter than President Bush wanted and will delay the vehicles' entry into this country, probably for months. The new rules -- ...
ARTIFICIAL HEART RECIPIENT DIES.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Robert Tools, the first person to receive a fully self-contained artificial heart, died Friday of internal bleeding and organ failure after living with the device whirring in his chest for 151 days. He was 59. The death was ...
SUSPECT HELD IN SERIAL DEATHS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press SEATTLE -- A man was arrested Friday in connection with the slayings of four women whose deaths were believed to be part of the nation's worst unsolved serial killer sprees. Police had blamed the four women's deaths on the so-called Green ...
ARTIST OFFERS TRIBUTE.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: MARTHA WAGGONER Associated Press MORRISVILLE, N.C. -- An artist has been working 21-hour days in the past three weeks as he puts the finishing touches on a mammoth painting in honor of children affected by acquired immune deficiency syndrome and the human ...
PENTAGON DETAILS PLANS AFTER MISSILE DEFENSE TEST TONIGHT.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: ERIC ROSENBERG Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon's top missile defense official said Friday that if this weekend's missile defense test is a success, the military will begin tougher, more realistic tests to make them resemble an actual nuclear ...
BUDGET DIRECTOR OUTLINES PRIORITIES.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: DAVID EGGERT Times Union Washington bureau WASHINGTON -- The White House budget director said Friday that the federal government will spend ``every dollar necessary'' to win the war against terrorism and that some domestic spending should be trimmed to avoid permanent ...
SHUTTLE LAUNCH READY FOR TUESDAY.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA will try again Tuesday to launch space shuttle Endeavour on a flight to the international space station after two cosmonauts aboard the orbiting outpost go out on a spacewalk to clear away a piece of junk. The ...
GOP CHAIRMAN SIGNALS HE'LL RESIGN IN JANUARY.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON -- GOP Chairman James C. Gilmore said Friday that he plans to quit after a year in the post, following two key Republican losses last month. Gilmore, whose term as governor of Virginia also is ending, said he would leave the helm ...
ISRAELI FORCES NEAR CITIES IN WEST BANK.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: JASON KEYSER and BARRY SCHWEID Associated Press JERUSALEM -- Responding to the latest suicide bombing, the Israeli military on Friday entered Palestinian-controlled land on the outskirts of the West Bank cities of Jenin and Nablus, Israeli radio and a military source ...
TERROR'S TOLL.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: Associated Press - Latest additions to the names of those confirmed dead, reported dead or reported missing in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. CONFIRMED DEAD: World Trade Center ...
TAPES BROUGHT SECRET TALKS WITH TALIBAN.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Washington Post KABUL, Afghanistan -- Ten days ago cassette tapes and a handwritten letter were secretly delivered to top Northern Alliance officials here in the Afghan capital. According to alliance officials, the message on the cassettes and in the ...
A MONTH OF FOOD STORED FOR RELIEF IN AFGHANISTAN.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Knight Ridder WASHINGTON -- Food aid agencies have delivered enough food to warehouses in Afghanistan to see the country through the next month, officials said Friday. The bad news, the officials said, is that lawlessness and transportation problems are ...
BUSH LOOKS TO PRESSURE IRAQ.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: PATRICK E. TYLER and DAVID E. SANGER New York Times WASHINGTON -- A top State Department official said on Friday that the United States was on ``a roll'' in its campaign against the Taliban in Afghanistan and that President Bush intended to use the momentum to force Iraq ...
ASHCROFT WEIGHS MORE FBI CLOUT.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft is considering a plan to relax restrictions on the FBI's spying on religious and political organizations in the United States, senior government officials said Friday. The proposal would loosen one of the most fundamental restrictions ...
MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: ANDY ROONEY What follows is a list of questions about the Muslim world we know so little about. I made the list in anticipation of talking to someone in the State Department. After questioning two officials there, I called a professor of Middle Eastern Studies to see how ...
GEORGE HARRISON.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... The devoted but devastated fans of the Beatles and the magic they once brought to music and culture were mourning again Friday. They were gathered in places like Abbey Road in London, and Strawberry Fields in New York City, created in honor of John Lennon, shot to death by a madman 21 ...
SOLOMON WAS A FIGHTER, FAMILY MAN AND FRIEND.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: PAT M. CASALE Member of the Assembly Troy Rep. Gerald Solomon has passed away, but the good impression he left on the people he represented always will be remembered. I knew Rep. Solomon as a friend through my years as an elected official. He certainly was a ...
DOING A GOOD JOB OF TEACHING POST 9-11 LESSONS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: JOHN SCHNEBLY North Greenbush The writer is Founding Chairman, Northeast Sustainable Energy Association, 1974-1979 - Your lead editorial Nov. 25 was a pleasure to read. As a guy who has been centrally involved in our nation's response to the first OPEC oil embargo from ...
ALL MUST BE CONCERNED WITH ISRAEL'S WELL-BEING.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: LES FISHER Delmar On Nov. 27, in Israel's north, more civilians were intentionally killed by another Palestine Liberation Organization-linked terrorist group. But will the U.S., European and U.N. groups continue their routine response, threatening Israel not to act in ...
GREELEY'S BLATHER COULD BE BAD FOR HIS HEALTH.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: JOHN E. COLLIER Delmar Since Sept. 11, we have been subjected to a steady diet of contentious, anti-U.S. blather from certain of your contributors. Perhaps the best, or worst, example was Andrew Greeley's Nov. 24 diatribe headlined, ``Our fascism more dangerous than ...
ONE PRICE NO LONGER FITS ALL.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: MICHAEL KINSLEY In Kmart recently, as I stood contemplating the purchase of a cheap suitcase (never mind why), an employee came over to ask whether she could help. This was shocking enough. But then, when I confessed to indecision, she offered me 20 percent off. She ...
FOREIGN HATRED CAN BE POISONOUS.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: THOMAS SOWELL Why do they hate us so? And what can we do to understand their point of view? These seem to be the big questions for a large segment of the intelligentsia, whether in the media or academia, as well as various politicians and activists. Many of ...
DON'T USE THIS WAR TO PURSUE ANOTHER AGENDA.(MAIN)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: ANDREW GREELEY It is acutely embarrassing that the United States has to learn from Spain, only a couple of decades free from its long and dark Fascist night, about the importance of civil liberties. The Spanish authorities have arrested eight men whom they ...
IT'S NO HOLIDAY FROM ROBBERY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer 'Tis the season for Christmas tree hunting, yuletide music, bargain shopping and ... bank heists. Each year as the holiday season arrives, police brace for an occasional spike in bank robberies. Since Wednesday, Capital ...
SCENES OF THE PAST GUIDE HER FUTURE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writer The first thing you notice about Frances Coleman's apartment are the magnets. Well over 100 cling to her refrigerator, much like how the 61-year-old has hung onto life. ``I've never stopped living. I can't walk, but I'm ...
LAND SWAP ADDS TO PINE BUSH.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writer A building that Pine Bush protectors once protested for being constructed in the rare pine barren became part of the preserve on Friday, when the state announced it traded a piece of the Harriman State Office Campus for the State Employees ...
JACK FROST IS NAPPING, NOT NIPPING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: BRUCE A. SCRUTON Staff writer Think November and mental pictures form: Cold, damp, raw; sleighs going to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving; crackling fireplaces. Now, this year's visions: warm, dry, sunny; golfers in sunglasses and shorts working off the ...
FACING AN UPHILL BATTLE WITH AIDS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: PAUL GRONDAHL Staff writer In Zimbabwe, where thousands of people die of AIDS each month, hospice worker Charakupa Simplisius Ngwerume can only apply a Band-Aid to a hemorrhage. ``They're dying like flies every day, and we have almost nothing to give them,'' ...
FUND GAP SHUTTERS SERVICE GROUPS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau ALBANY -- As more community service organizations close their doors because of a lack of state funding, legislators aren't yet sure how to dole out $200 million allocated for such groups. Lawmakers are, however, certain how much ...
MCCALL TAKES TO AIRWAVES WITH 5-MINUTE MESSAGES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- James M. Odato ALBANY - Morning radio listeners may get more than music today as gubernatorial candidate H. Carl McCall takes five-minute spots on 21 stations for live addresses. ``For far too long, New York has not had a real discussion of the problems ...
SWIPED SANDWICH DOES IN FUGITIVE MURDER SUSPECT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Associated Press BETHLEHEM, Pa. -- Fugitive murder suspect Robert Durst, the estranged scion of one of New York's wealthiest real estate families, was arrested Friday after shoplifting a sandwich in Hanover Township, police said. Durst, who was suspected ...
189 MORE PASS BAR EXAM DUE TO ERROR IN GRADING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Associated Press ALBANY -- A grading error on the bar examination administered in July has resulted in 189 more applicants being given passing scores, the state Board of Law Examiners said Friday. The board said 6,664 prospective lawyers passed the bar ...
DONOHUE SAYS SHE'S CONTENT TO STAY SECOND FIDDLE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: MARC HUMBERT Associated Press ALBANY -- Lt. Gov. Mary Donohue, seeking to end speculation she might run for state attorney general or take a judgeship, said Friday she likes her current job and expects to be Gov. George Pataki's running mate next year. ``If ...
KEY DEMOCRATIC POSTS PLAYING MUSICAL CHAIRS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Capitol bureau The executive chairman of the state Democratic Party's executive committee, Watertown attorney Michael Schell, announced Friday that he will step down from his post to make way for a woman. A clause in the party's bylaws ...
NIGHTMARE OF SEPT. 11 REMAINS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: MALCOLM RITTER Associated Press NEW YORK -- For many New York City firefighters, Sept. 11 still takes a toll in nightmares, sleepless nights, anxiety and other psychological stresses, say mental health professionals who are helping them deal with their reactions. ...
WEEKEND HAPPENINGS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... AVIATION HOLIDAY ART CLASS. 1 to 2 p.m. Sunday. Empire State Aerosciences Museum, 250 Rudy Chase Drive, Glenville. Children 7 to 12 can make an aviation-themed decoration. 377-2191. $6 a participant. CAPITAL HOLIDAY LIGHTS IN THE PARK. 6 p.m. today and Sunday. Washington Park, Albany ....
QUEENS MAN CONVICTED IN SHOOTING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: ANDREW TILGHMAN Staff writer Albany A jury took only three hours Friday to convict a Queens man for trying to kill a man on Bradford Street earlier this year. Andrew Mulings, 25, also known as Tony, faces up to 30 years in prison for shooting Emanuel Badio, ...
CORNERED BY COPS, MAN KILLS HIMSELF.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: KENNETH C. CROWE II Staff writer An 18-year-old man kidnapped his ex-girlfriend at gunpoint Friday morning and forced her to drive to Vermont, where he killed himself with a rifle shot to the head when cornered by police, New York and Vermont State Police said. ...
AIRPORT TO CUT BUDGET AS REVENUES DIP.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: CATHY WOODRUFF Staff writer The windows will be washed a little less frequently, advertising will take a back seat and other cosmetic touches are likely to be reduced at Albany International Airport next year to help offset lagging revenues from air traffic. ...
MISSISSIPPI SUSPECT JAILED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... ALBANY -- A Mississippi man who allegedly bragged to local friends that he shot at an unmarked police car down South was arrested Friday on attempted murder and burglary warrants. City Detective Tony Ryan developed information this week that Latoris Cooley of Shubuta, Miss., ...
MINORITY PARTY'S OFFICE FUNDS CUT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer Troy Democrats will lose at least two staffers in Rensselaer County's legislative minority office on Jan. 1 after a Republican announcement Friday that their personnel budget was cut in half. The existing $168,000 budget ...
COPS SAY 3 BROUGHT CRACK FROM NYC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... ALBANY -- Three people, apparently returning from a trip to New York City, were arrested early Friday when they were stopped by police and allegedly found to have crack cocaine. The Community Response Unit had received a tip that the three would be returning to an apartment on ...
MAN CHARGED WITH BANK FRAUD.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer Albany A Rensselaer man who allegedly set up a fraudulent company using a stolen identity was charged Friday with bank fraud. Tracy Collins, 48, of Broadway, told authorities he found a wallet with a driver's license, credit cards ...
NEW LIFE FOR CIVIL SERVICE PANEL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer The chairman of the County Legislature is backing a move to restore a civil service commission to oversee county operations. Neil J. Kelleher's proposed law calls for a three-person panel with not more than two members of any ...
REVIEW OF TOWER GUIDELINES SOUGHT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: DINA CAPPIELLO Staff writer New guidelines for the construction of cellphone towers in the Adirondack Park have some residents and environmentalists calling for an independent review. The LA Group -- a Saratoga Springs-based consulting firm -- was the only ...
STATE THWARTS ATTEMPT TO BLOCK VOTE ON SCHOOL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... ALBANY -- The state Department of Education rejected an attempt to block a Dec. 11 vote on a $174.6 million school building project by the City School District, according to Superintendent Lonnie Palmer. Last week, two members of the group Friends of Westland Hills Park filed a ...
HOUSE OKS ROAD FUNDING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: Gannett News Service WASHINGTON -- A final transportation spending agreement will provide money for Capital Region transportation projects. U.S. Rep. John Sweeney, R-Clifton Park, said the bill includes $2 million he requested for a study of the feasibility of ...
MAN ACQUITTED ON FELONY DRUG CHARGES.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: KIM MARTINEAU Staff writer A city man charged with trying to transport $7,000 worth of crack cocaine to Saratoga Springs has been cleared of two felony drug charges that carried a potential prison term of up to 25 years. Dwight Singleterry was arrested April 6 ...
MEMO PAINTS A PICTURE OF POWER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: KIM MARTINEAU Staff writer After CSEA, the state's largest public employee union, fired the Albany law firm of Roemer & Featherstonhaugh, James Roemer gave the union's new president detailed advice on how to do his job. In a July 1988 memo, he advised union ...
INDICTMENT ACCUSES MAN OF SEXUALLY ABUSING TEEN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... TROY -- A 33-year-old Castleton man was indicted by a Rensselaer County grand jury Friday on 20 charges of sexually abusing a teenager. Charles T. Wager, of 118 S. Main St., also known as ``Ace,'' was arrested by Schodack police Aug. 28 and is being held at Rensselaer County ...
BLUES WEAR WELL ON HAMMOND.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union SCHENECTADY -- The last time John Hammond was in town, he was sporting the same killer combo that backed him on his most recent album, the Tom Waits-produced ``Wicked Grin.'' Friday night, Hammond was all alone at The Van ...
NBC, FOX SEEK BIDS FOR CHILDREN'S TV.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: SALLIE HOFMEISTER Los Angeles Times Unable to compete in the crowded children's television market, NBC and Fox are preparing to call it quits by leasing their Saturday morning TV slots to the highest bidders. Two networks are in serious negotiations with ...
PRESSED FOR TIME, PASTORS RAID THE INTERNET.(RELIGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: G. JEFFREY MACDONALD Religion News Service When churchgoers in Bluffton, Ind., turn out at Fellowship Baptist Church to hear Pastor Lenny Stringer preach, they might hear a sermon he wrote himself. Or they might hear one somebody else gave years ago to another ...
RAYS OF JOY WILL SHINE AMID SORROW.(RELIGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: THE REV. MARK MUELLER As we quickly approach another Christmas, the signs of another joyous holiday are all around us. Many houses have been decorated for some time. My son has already sat on Santa's lap. Church choirs are rehearsing the joyful angelic chorus of ``Peace ...
FACES OF FAITH.(RELIGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Elgin Taylor: Deacon and minister of music at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, Albany. Background: Born and reared in Albany. 37 years old. Graduate of Albany Business College. Senior student loan control representative at the state Higher Education Services Corp. ...
CAPITAL REGION ALMANAC.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 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 ...
WREATHS TO BRIGHTEN STREETS OF TROY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... TROY -- More than 130 fresh balsam wreaths will trim the downtown area during Sunday's Victorian Stroll and throughout the holiday season, part of the Troy Wreath Project. Mane and Peter Stewart have served as chief patrons of the project since its inception seven ...
ASSISTANCE OFFERED FOR HOMELESS VETERANS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Dec 01, 2001 ... Byline: -- Erika Groff COLONIE -- A coalition of veterans organizations and public agencies will offer free assistance for homeless war veterans from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. today at the Colonie BPOE Lodge 2192 on Elks Lane. Flu shots, clothing, food, medical ...