Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from April 2002:
RATS BACK TO LOSING WAYS.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press Sound Tigers 6 River Rats 0BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Juraj Kolnik had a goal and three assists, and Jason Krog added two goals and an assist as the Bridgeport Sound Tigers defeated the Albany River Rats 6-0 Sunday in the American Hockey League. ...
FIFE CAN'T HOLD ANYTHING BACK.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: REGGIE HAYES Fort Wayne (Ind.) News-Sentinel - ATLANTA -- Among the printable names his Indiana University teammates call Dane Fife is ``Psycho.'' It reflects his no-holds-barred approach to the game, as well as his tendency to be, well, a little flaky. He'll ...
LATHAM REF GETS THE CALL.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MARK SINGELAIS Staff writer It's a record of excellence that Indiana or Maryland could be proud to call its own. Six national championship game appearances, including tonight. Thirteen Final Fours in all. Those impressive credentials belong to ...
CROWE IS ACCUSED OF ACTING UP.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press SYDNEY, Australia -- Actor Russell Crowe has been accused by an Australian rugby league coach of trying to lure several players to South Sydney, a team Crowe avidly supports. Chris Anderson, coach of the Sharks team, said Crowe, who has no ...
KENYAN SETS 10K RECORD.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW ORLEANS -- Sammy Kipketer broke his own world record for 10 kilometers, leading a 1-2-3 Kenyan sweep in winning the Crescent City Classic on Saturday. Kipketer quickly pulled away and finished in 27 minutes, 10 seconds. He beat the record ...
AGASSI WINS 700TH AT NASDAQ-100.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: JUAN C. RODRIGUEZ Miami Herald KEY BISCAYNE, Fla. -- Roger Federer was unaffected. This didn't equate to facing childhood idol Pete Sampras at Wimbledon. Federer followed a four-time Nasdaq-100 Open and seven-time Grand Slam event champion into Stadium Court. Not once ...
MONTENARO WINS TITLE.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. -- Dave Montenaro of Amsterdam rolled a 255 final game Saturday to vault past five bowlers and win a Huck Finn tournament at Cove Lanes. Montenaro, who won $1,100, finished the five-game sweeper with 1,179 (235.8 average) to beat Chris Leonard of Great ...
SINGH ENDS VICTORY DROUGHT.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press THE WOODLANDS, Texas -- Vijay Singh didn't allow for much suspense in the final round of the Shell Houston Open. Singh won his first PGA Tour title since the 2000 Masters, closing with a 4-under 68 Sunday for a six-stroke victory and ...
SORENSTAM WINS IN STYLE.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. -- The shoes arrived on Thursday, patent leather slip-ons so outrageously red that Annika Sorenstam wouldn't even think about wearing them in public, much less during a major championship. She changed her ...
INDIANS START WITH SHUTOUT.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: KEN PETERS Associated Press Indians 6 Angels 0ANAHEIM, Calif. -- The new-look Cleveland Indians opened the 2002 major-league baseball season with the pitching they've been looking for. Bartolo Colon pitched a five-hitter to become the first Cleveland ...
IN FINAL, ONE NUMBER COUNTS.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MIKE LOPRESTI Gannett News Service ATLANTA -- Two very different teams are left to play one game tonight. The national championship of college basketball is down to this: the apple or the orange. It will be the Maryland team that was expected to be here. ...
RARE AIR FOR TERPS' WILLIAMS.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: STEVE CAMPBELL ATLANTA -- Roy Williams insists -- rightly -- that the lack of a national championship on his Kansas resume does make him a coaching failure. In the same breath, Williams admits he longs to win the ultimate game of the NCAA Tournament ``as much as I want ...
OPTIMISM STEPS TO PLATE AS SEASON GETS INTO SWING.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: BEN WALKER Associated Press Roberto Alomar is ready. Really ready. ``I can't wait to start the season the right way and win lots of games,'' the New York Mets' new second baseman said during Sunday's workout at Shea Stadium. Same goes for Luis ...
SOMETHING TO HOWL ABOUT HUSKIES COMPLETE PERFECT SEASON WITH FINAL WIN VS. SOONERS.(SPORTS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MEL GREENBERG Philadelphia Inquirer - Connecticut 82 Oklahoma 70SAN ANTONIO -- Unbeaten Connecticut provided a perfect ending to one of the most dominating performances by a women's college basketball team last night when it turned aside Oklahoma, 82-70, to capture ...
A NEW TACK IN ENRON INQUIRY.(BUSINESS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: KURT EICHENWALD New York Times Prosecutors have opened a new phase in their investigation of the collapse of the Enron Corp., advancing beyond the indictment of its auditor, Arthur Andersen, to focus on executives of Enron and their activities, according to people ...
UPSTART TEOMA TAKES ON SEARCH GIANT GOOGLE.(BUSINESS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Apostolos Gerasoulis has a message for everyone who relies on Google as an online guide: It's time to move on. After spending the past six months fine-tuning the technology, Gerasoulis and his development team ...
SWISSAIR SUCCESSOR TAKES MAIDEN FLIGHT.(BUSINESS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: NAOMI KOPPEL Associated Press GENEVA -- Switzerland's new national airline, Swiss, took to the air Sunday morning, combining the services of the defunct carrier Swissair and regional airline Crossair. The first Swiss flight was a 30-minute hop from Basel to ...
COMPANIES CASH IN ON TRAVEL WORRIES.(BUSINESS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: JIM KRANE Associated Press NEW YORK -- For Americans who travel abroad, the world looks like a more menacing place. Since Sept. 11, a swarm of travel intelligence services and executive tracking programs have emerged, capitalizing on the fear of things ...
IT'S POSSIBLE TO REDUCE CLUTTER IN PORTFOLIO.(BUSINESS)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: LISA SINGHANIA Associated Press NEW YORK -- If you're planning a spring cleaning, make sure your mutual fund portfolio is on your to-do list. It's not uncommon for shareholders to find themselves inundated with statements and documents, even unnecessary funds ....
FOSTER'S `PANIC' FINDS BIG AUDIENCE.(ARTS & ENTERTA)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: DAVID GERMAIN Associated Press LOS ANGELES -- Moviegoers were on full alert for ``Panic Room.'' Starring Jodie Foster and Forest Whitaker, the thriller about a mother and daughter hiding from burglars in their home's fortress-like sanctuary took in $30.2 ...
STROKES OF GENIUS THOMAS KINKADE TURNS OUT ART EN MASSE WITH ASSEMBLY-LINE PRECISION AND PROFIT.(ARTS & ENTERTA)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MARCO R. della CAVA USA Today MORGAN HILL, Calif. -- Inside a 400,000-square-foot factory set amid the Central Valley's rolling green hills hums the sound of ... art? Nearly 500 paintings emerge daily from this immaculate place, a cross between a ...
PHOTO CONTEST CALLS FOR ENTRIES.(ARTS & ENTERTA)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Photographers interested in being part of the 24th annual Photo Regional may drop off work at the Fulton Street Gallery, 408 Fulton St., Troy, today through Saturday. The regional is open to photographers over the age of 18 who live within a 150-mile radius of the Capital Region. ...
40TH YEAR FOR FINN TV SHOW.(TV & RADIO)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press ISHPEMING, Mich. -- A popular Upper Peninsula TV show, ``Suomi Kutsuu -- Finland Calling,'' is celebrating 40 years on the air. Last week, Carl Pellonpaa was the host of the 2,000th telecast of the show on Marquette ...
MARTHA STEWART ADDS DASH OF HUMOR.(TV & RADIO)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: DAVID BAUDER Associated Press NEW YORK -- Who knew? Martha Stewart has quite the poker face. On today's edition of her syndicated television show, ``Martha Stewart Living'' (which airs locally at 1 p.m. on WEDG Ch. 4), the star stands in front of a giant to-do ...
WOMEN DOING MORE CAR CARE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Newsday While there's been little growth in the percentage of households that do some of their owncar maintenance, the percentage of women doing that work has increased to 34 percent from just 27 percent in 1994. Most of the women stick with ...
HIGHLIGHTER MAKES READING GUIDE EASIER.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: HELOISE DEAR HELOISE: We all have trouble from time to time trying to read the television viewing guide from the Sunday paper. But for senior citizens, it can be harder due to not being able to see as well as they used to. Looking at the small print, it seems ...
TESTS BACK ARTHRITIS ALTERNATIVE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Apr 01, 2002 ... About 21 million Americans have osteoarthritis, the most common type of arthritis. Conventional treatment for the disease involves oral drugs -- both over-the-counter and prescription -- that relieve pain and inflammation. But chronic use of some of these medications has been ...
BEST BETS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Con job David Suchet, above, perhaps best known as Hercule Poirot on ``Mystery,'' leaps to the other side of the law tonight in the first installment of a new ``Masterpiece Theatre'' adaptation of Anthony Trollope's ``The Way We Live Now'' (9, WMHT Ch. 17). Suchet plays Augustus Melmotte, ...
GROUP HONORS AREA HOTEL WORKERS FOR HOSPITALITY.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MARTY KLINKENBERG Special to The Times Union Bart Ankenman thought nothing of climbing into a Dumpster to search for a security pass misplaced by a coach in town last month for the NCAA Wrestling Championships. Ankenman, a bellman at the Holiday Inn Turf hotel ...
A GROWING ROMANCE PUPPY LOVE IMPORTANT FOR TEENAGERS AND PARENTS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: STEPHANIE DUNNEWIND SEATTLE TIMES When her daughter Amy was young, Nancy Bernard told her she couldn't date until she was 25 and had her Ph.D. ``She used to believe us,'' lamented Bernard, who lives in Kirkland, Wash. Not anymore. Amy, who just ...
RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... ALBANY COUNTY Here are recent reports of public health inspections conducted at Albany County businesses: Feb. 15 Ground Round, 800 New Loudon Road, Colonie. Routine inspection. Blue items: Personal items stored with food; soiled shelf; unsealed shelves; ...
BIRTHS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Albany Medical Center Hosp. Albany DENTINGER, Rachel Erin, daughter of Jennifer and Aaron Dentinger, Colonie, Dec. 22. BROWN, Philip Paul III, son of Michaeleen and Philip Brown Jr., Troy, Dec. 27. SCHULTZ, Elise Nicole, daughter of Pam and Jim Schultz, ...
IT'S STILL A CONTRABAND BONANZA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Every day, security workers find and confiscate dozens of corkscrews, scissors, pencil sharpeners and similar items from pockets and carry-on luggage. John Owens of Menands, who passed through the security checkpoint last week, said he no longer carries his pocketknife when he ...
SCHOOL NEARS ENROLLMENT GOAL.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MARV CERMAK Staff writer Schenectady The International Charter School of Schenectady has enrolled more than 215 students in the second month of a planned five-month registration period. ``We are well on the way to reaching our goal of 300 students,'' said ...
COP HURT IN SCUFFLE WITH SUSPECT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Albany A traffic safety officer suffered two cracked ribs while trying to make an arrest early Sunday morning. Officer Bill Wilson was injured about 3:30 a.m. in a scuffle with John Robinson, 35, of 253 Colonie St., according to Detective James Miller, public safety department ...
CIGARETTE TAX TO MAKE PRICES HIGHEST IN U.S.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MICHAEL HILL Associated Press ALBANY -- New York's cigarette tax is rising again, and so is Wendy Smith's ire. ``This is the United States. It's supposed to be the land of the free,'' said Smith, a smoker who lives north of Syracuse. ``They're cramming these ...
MESSAGE OF HOPE AMID RUINS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: ELIZABETH LeSURE Associated Press NEW YORK -- Worshipers filled a chapel a block from the World Trade Center site Sunday for a candlelight sunrise Easter service. ``The message of Easter is a message of hope, and hope is something to which we cling amid the ...
GUBERNATORIAL HOPEFULS GET NEW ENDORSEMENTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: ELIZABETH BENJAMIN Capitol bureau Albany It was a banner week for endorsements in the governor's race. Rensselaer Democratic Party Chairman Tim Murphy announced he is backing Andrew Cuomo, citing Cuomo's recent upset win in a vote of upstate Democratic ...
THE NAME IS, LEST YOU FORGET ...(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... The first page of the brochure could be straight out of a textbook on campaign literature. ``Jim Tedisco: Working to Prevent Identity Theft/Criminal Impersonation,'' it reads A picture of the Schenectady Republican covers half the page, and under it is a quote, ...
COP FATALLY SHOOTS SUSPECT IN VAN BREAK-IN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- A police officer fatally shot a man who broke into a van in lower Manhattan, authorities said. An officer on routine patrol saw the man looking into the van just before 8 p.m. Saturday and behaving suspiciously, police said. The ...
OFF-DUTY NYC COP STABBED TO DEATH IN ALTERCATION.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- An off-duty police officer was fatally stabbed Sunday when he interrupted a fight between his girlfriend and another man, authorities said. The officer, whose name was not immediately released, died at Lincoln Hospital from stab ...
BUFFALO MAN ACCUSED OF RAPE, ATTEMPTED MURDER.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press BUFFALO -- Police accuse an 18-year-old Buffalo man of raping a girl in his home, then trying to kill her with an injection. Officers arrested Akbar Salaam early Saturday after finding a screaming, naked and bound 17-year-old girl in the yard ...
POLICE EXPAND SEARCH FOR FUGITIVE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Staff report Albany The search for a man who allegedly fired at police, prompting a Friday night standoff in Arbor Hill, has been expanded to areas outside the Capital Region. City police investigators spent part of Sunday tracking down leads and working ...
SUSPECT CHARGED IN FATAL SHOOTING.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MIKE FRICANO Staff writer Schenectady City police arrested a downstate man Sunday in connection with one of the recent fatal shootings that have plagued the Hamilton Hill area. Mario L. Young, 26, of Far Rockaway, Queens, was charged with second-degree ...
DIVERSITY SOUGHT IN CITY CONTRACTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: ERIN DUGGAN Staff writer Albany Common Council members say they want to see more women and minority-owned businesses included in city contracts, and they want to hold the city accountable for living up to its affirmative action pledge. The council is ...
VOLUNTEERS LEARN EARLY ABOUT SPIRIT OF HOLIDAYS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: ERIN DUGGAN Staff writer Albany While many teens donned Easter dresses and suits Sunday, the Stonbely sisters spent the afternoon in blue jeans, cotton shirts with name tags and red and white paper hats. - Trading church clothes for work garb made sense for the ...
CONFERENCE TO TARGET ISLAM'S IMAGE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- On the eve of an international conference aimed at dispelling perceptions that Islam encourages terrorism, experts on Sunday said the mission would be difficult. Foreign ministers and representatives from the ...
REPORTER FREED FROM ZIMBABWE JAIL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press HARARE, Zimbabwe -- Police in Zimbabwe freed from jail a reporter for a British newspaper who had been detained for allegedly violating strict new media laws. Peta Thornycroft, 57, a correspondent for Britain's Daily Telegraph and two South ...
ROYAL MATRIARCH MOURNED.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: AUDREY WOODS Associated Press LONDON -- The great State Bell of St. Paul's Cathedral tolled Sunday in remembrance of the Queen Mother as people across Britain prayed for her at Easter services and admirers lined up at royal palaces to sign books of condolence. ...
INMATES RIOT AT CANADIAN JAIL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press MILLBROOK, Ontario -- Inmates at an eastern Ontairio jail broke into a control room and opened cell doors, releasing at least 25 prisoners into an interior yard. Negotiators worked to retake control of the jail early today, a government official said. ...
MILOSEVIC ASSOCIATES FACE ARREST.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: KATARINA KRATOVAC Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- Faced with imminent suspension of all U.S. aid to Yugoslavia, Serbia's government issued arrest warrants Sunday against four of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's closest associates to face war crimes ...
ISRAELIS ATTACKED NEAR LEBANON BORDER.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press JERUSALEM -- Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon fired on Israeli troops late Sunday, the second border incident in as many days, raising the possibility of a new front in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Security officials in Lebanon and the Israeli ...
AMERICAN REPORTER STRUCK BY BULLET.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank -- An American reporter was shot in the shoulder in Ramallah on Sunday, and Israel warned that foreign journalists were at risk and should not be in the occupied West Bank city. Anthony Shadid, a Washington-based Boston ...
2 SIDES DISPUTE SHOOTING INCIDENT.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Israeli troops on Sunday fired on a group of Palestinian policemen attempting to surrender, killing five and injuring several more at a building near the center of Ramallah, a policeman in the building and Palestinian officials ...
THE COIN OF DESPAIR BUYS A TICKET TO ETERNITY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: DANIEL WILLIAMS Washington Post BEIT WAZAN, West Bank -- Before she shopped for someone to supply her with an exploding belt, Dareen Abu Aisheh had a long series of Socratic debates with her uncle, Jasser Khalili, over the rightness and wrongness of suicide bombing. ...
STRIFE'S TOLL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... In 18 months of violence, 1,269 people have been killed on the Palestinian side and 416 people on the Israeli side. The Palestinian figure includes 54 suicide bombers, several suspected informers for Israel killed by Palestinian militants, 13 Israeli Arabs killed in ...
BUSH URGED TO TAKE ACTION.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: SCOTT LAIDLAW Associated Press CRAWFORD, Texas -- President Bush pledged Sunday that two more suicide bombings in Israel would not discourage his Mideast peacemaking efforts, but some senators said he needs to do more. ``The President condemns these acts of ...
SENATOR HAS THE RIGHT TO CHALLENGE NEW LAW.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: TIMOTHY P. MURPHY Ballston Lake Since when did challenging in court a law with which you disagree become a bad thing? I thought that was one of the fundamental purposes of the judiciary. I notice, for example, that the nation's print and electronic media are very quick ...
DE RUSSY LIVING UP TO TRUSTEE RESPONSIBILITIES.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: MALCOLM J. SHERMAN Professor of Mathematics UAlbany Bill Scheuerman, president of the SUNY faculty union, my union, criticizes SUNY trustee Candace de Russy because she doesn't see her role as that of a cheerleader for SUNY. Trustees, according to Scheuerman, are ...
STILL ON THE MONEY TRAIL.(MAIN)(Editorial)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Subtlety? Not for PresidentBush. Dexterity, perhaps, but not subtlety. Last week came to a close with the President's views about political fund-raising, and what he tends to see as the niggling attempts by Congress to properly and fairly restrict it, about as clear as ever ....
FOREIGN SCHOLARS DO IMPROVE UNIVERSITY.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: SUE R. FAERMAN University at Albany The writer is dean of Undergraduate Studies and professor of Public Administration ies and professor of Public Administration. - Alan Wechsler's March 14 article ``When words collide in class'' is a piece that should have stopped at ...
COLUMNIST IGNORES YEARS OF SAFE NUCLEAR DISPOSAL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: SCOTT PETERSON Vice President Nuclear Energy Institute Washington, DC 20006 Molly Ivins' alarmist opposition to a central, underground disposal facility for nuclear waste ignores a long history of safe storage and scientific consensus on long-term management of used ...
AFGHAN PEACE FAR FROM SECURE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: DAN RATHER The battle of Afghanistan in the war against terrorism isn't over. Not nearly. And a behind-the-scenes struggle in Washington might well decide how it goes from here on out. Late last year, two weeks after the fall of Kandahar, representatives of ...
WOMAN ACCUSED IN HUSBAND'S MURDER DIES IN JAIL.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: Associated Press BROOKSVILLE, Fla. -- A woman accused of poisoning her husband with a horse tranquilizer last year and burying his body in a California vineyard hanged herself in a jail cell, authorities said Sunday. Laren Sims, 36, had been held without bail ...
SON CHARGED IN BRUTAL BEATING OF JUSTICE.(MAIN)
Apr 01, 2002 ... Byline: DAVID TIRRELL-WYSOCKI Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. -- The brutal attack of a New Hampshire Supreme Court justice occurred in his bedroom in the middle of the night, and he said he could not recognize his assailant. But on Sunday, police arrested the justice's son. ...