Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) back issues from July 2003:
STATE BANS NURSING HOMES' OWNERS.(CAPITAL REGION)(Correction notice)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: CLAIRE HUGHES Staff writer The owners of a chain of nursing homes must pay more than $1 million to the state and are banned from operating nursing homes in New York, after pleading guilty to criminal charges of providing inadequate care to residents. Hallmark ...
DISPUTE LINKED TO FATAL BLAZE.(MAIN)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: BRENDAN LYONS Staff writer Moments before he allegedly set a fire that killed two children, Derrick Garrett pounded on the door of a Clinton Avenue apartment where he and his girlfriend had lived for the past four months. Garrett, 36, would later tell police ...
MAY SINGLE-FAMILY HOME SALES*.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Closed sales of single-family homes in the Capital Region fell again in May over the year before, the fourth straight month of decline. But the region saw a 14 percent increase in new listings in May over the same month last year, after three months of declines. And the median and average ...
ORACLE OFFER BRINGS ANTITRUST CONCERNS.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: MICHAEL LIEDTKE Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO -- Federal antitrust regulators raised a red flag on Oracle Corp.'s unsolicited $6.3 billion bid for rival business software maker PeopleSoft Inc. on Monday by demanding more information about how a merger would affect ...
SEC CLEARS RULES ON OFFERING STOCK OPTIONS.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: AMY STRAHAN BUTLER Bloomberg News NEW YORK -- Companies trading on the biggest U.S. stock markets must get shareholder approval before granting stock options and other equity compensation under rules cleared by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The rule ...
FLEMING TO SELL CORE BUSINESS.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Associated Press DALLAS -- Bankrupt grocery distributor Fleming Cos. has increased the pace of selling assets, announcing plans to sell its core business and 17 discount grocery stores. Fleming is negotiating to sell its sole remaining business, which ...
AUTO COMPANIES HOPE FOR LONG-AWAITED SURGE.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: JOHN PORRETTO Associated Press DETROIT -- New car and truck sales in June likely will top May's tally as automakers continue to pour on record levels of incentives, but a strong industry surge has yet to materialize, analysts say. Automakers report U.S. sales ...
TOBACCO ROAD BECOMES DEAD END.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: EMILY GERSEMA Associated Press WASHINGTON -- It was the nation's first export and the collateral for financing the American Revolution. But with lawsuits, less smoking, import competition and a soon-to-be dismantled system of government controls, farmers are planting the ...
ENRON GIVEN MORE TIME TO FILE RECOVERY PLAN.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... NEW YORK -- A federal judge Monday gave bankrupt Enron Corp. until July 11 to file its reorganization plan, granting the energy company's request for an 11-day extension. The plan had been due Monday. But last week, Enron asked for more time, saying it had reached a tentative ...
GE DEVISES IN-HOME MONITORING.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: KENNETH AARON Business writer When Phyllis Budka fell into a sudden coma in her home after Easter weekend two years ago, it took more than 24 hours before anyone found her. Doctors still aren't sure why Budka, a senior engineer at GE's Power Systems division ...
FEDERAL COURT UPHOLDS RULING AGAINST MADSTER.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... A U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling that effectively shut down the Madster Internet file-swapping service while it fights lawsuits from the Recording Industry Association of America. Madster, founded by Cohoes resident John Deep, was ordered by a federal judge in Chicago to ...
STEWART'S SHOPS PRESIDENT PASSES MANTLE TO SON.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: JEREMY BOYER Business writer Stewart's Shops Corp. has named Gary Dake to succeed his father, William Dake, as president of the 316-store Saratoga Springs-based convenience chain. William Dake had been Stewart's president since 1978. He will remain chairman ...
FARMERS EXPECT SWEET APPLE CROP.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: CAROLYN THOMPSON Associated Press BUFFALO -- This year's apple season is bound to be better than last year's, growers say, because it couldn't possibly be worse. New York's apple farmers harvested just 16 million bushels last year -- a 30-year low -- after a ...
STOCKS SEE BEST QUARTER SINCE '01.(BUSINESS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: AMY BALDWIN Associated Press NEW YORK -- Wall Street ended a stunning second quarter quietly Monday as fund managers spent the day repositioning their holdings, but the narrow losses didn't stop the Standard & Poor's 500 index from achieving its best quarterly gain since ...
LEADING LADY MAKES `FUNNY GIRL' SING.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: MICHAEL ECK Special to the Times Union SHEFFIELD, MASS. -- Jeanne Goodman plays the role of Fanny Brice as if she were born to it. She's got the right look, the right sound and the right pizzazz to re-create the woman who wangled her way to stardom by dint of ...
`THINGS WE DO' LACKS HUMOR, DEPTH.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: JEREMY STOLLER Special to the Times Union BENNINGTON, Vt. -- The title of Alan Ayckbourn's ``Things We Do for Love'' is ironic: None of its characters is really in love. They experience lust, obsession and even some weak variation of love, but the word is overused rather ...
`CURSE' FUN BUT UNEVEN HOLMES.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: JEREMY STOLLER Special to the Times Union DORSET, Vt. -- The ``Masterpiece Theatre''-style music fades as Dr. Watson walks into a ``Masterpiece Theatre''-style study in the Dorset Theatre Festival's production of ``Sherlock Holmes and the Curse of the Sign of Four.'' ...
MORE INFORMATION ON EYEWEAR FASHIONS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Saturday's story about eyewear fashions contained incomplete information about the glasses shown above, prices and store information. The latest in glasses, from the top: Silhouette rimless frames from DiNapoli Opticians, $275; Echo sunglasses, about $209, available at numerous ...
BARBIE'S GOT THE WORLD IN HER LITTLE PLASTIC HAND.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: PAUL LOMARTIRE Cox News Service LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. -- A Barbie woman's work is never done. Unless it's convention time. Then a Barbie woman starts her serious work. Collecting. The 24th annual Barbie Doll Collectors Convention at Walt Disney ...
`PREHYPERTENSIVE' GUIDELINES BAD NEWS FOR MILLIONS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: ELIZABETH LARGE Baltimore Sun Try not to get stressed out about this because it might raise your blood pressure. But those new guidelines announced recently by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute have put 45 million Americans whose blood pressure readings used ...
BIG SOUND, SMALL SIZE IN RADIOS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: CONSUMER REPORTS Table radios promise big sound from small boxes. The question is: Do table radios deliver? To find out, we tested models from Bose and its three competitors. Bose, the most recognizable name in this niche, is at the high end of the category ...
STROLLER STRIDES OFFERS FITNESS FOR BUSY MOMS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: STEPHANIE DUNNEWIND Seattle Times SEATTLE -- This workout includes singing ``If You're Happy and You Know It'' while squatting against a wall and ``Row, Row, Row Your Boat'' while pulling exercise bands to tone arm muscles. For any mom who's faced the ...
POT ALTERS TIME FOR RATS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Cox News Service ATLANTA -- Far out. Now we're learning something about ourselves from stoned rats. University of Georgia scientists have shown for the first time that marijuana really does alter time perception, and most likely makes people more dangerous behind the ...
HEALTH CALENDAR.(LIFE & LEISURE)(Calendar)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Breast-feeding basics. 7-9 p.m. today. Saratoga Hospital, 211 Church St., Saratoga Springs. Reservations required. For more information, call Saratoga Hospital's Education Department at 583-8485. Monthly immunizations for children. 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday. Albany County ...
WOULD-BE DONOR DESERVES DEEP GRATITUDE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... DEAR MISS MANNERS: A close friend of our 33-year-old son just completed testing to be a kidney donor for him. He is not a candidate for the gift. Would it be proper, as parents, to show our gratitude for his ultimate gift offer, to send him and his wife a gift certificate for a ...
SUMMER PROGRAMS STRIVE TO GET KIDS TO BOOK TIME.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: TRACY ORMSBEE Executive features editor Rachel Abate, 10, of Brunswick, likes to read. A lot. Last summer, as part of Brunswick Community Library's summer reading program, she breezed through the first few books in the A to Z Mysteries series, from ``The ...
TOUGH ROW TO HOEENTHUSIASTIC GARDENERS NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT STRAINS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: STEPHANIE EARLS Staff writer You're this close to hiring a backhoe to clear the mysterious bracken blocking your view of the front yard, when it hits you: That bracken used to be a flower bed. Whoa. No need to call in the heavy machinery, you tell ...
BEST BETS.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... True Clint Clint Eastwood's finest Western -- and perhaps his finest film, period -- ``Unforgiven'' airs at 8 tonight on TBS. The multiple Oscar-winner stars Eastwood, above, as a dissolute gunfighter on a terrifying comeback, taking Morgan Freeman and Gene Hackman along for the bloody ...
ABC CANCELS `PORT CHARLES'.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Associated Press NEW YORK -- Low ratings have taken a bite out of "Port Charles," forcing ABC to cancel the daytime drama. The series, a spinoff from ``General Hospital,'' debuted in 1997, making it still a newcomer in the slow-moving soap opera world. It was ...
LETTERMAN FAILS TO CLOSE LENO GAP.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: DAVID BAUDER Associated Press NEW YORK -- As he enjoyed some extra time off this summer, David Letterman would have been wise not to ponder the results of CBS' effort to narrow the ratings gap between him and Jay Leno. The news isn't particularly good. After ...
SIERRA'S HOMER LIFTS YANKEES.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: DAVID GINSBURG Associated Press Yankees6 Orioles5BALTIMORE -- On a night when they committed four errors, allowed 15 hits and fell behind by three runs, the New York Yankees still found a way to win. Ruben Sierra hit a pivotal three-run homer and Andy ...
VALLEYCATS STOP THE EXPOS COLD.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Staff reports ValleyCats4 Expos0BURLINGTON, VT. -- Josh Anderson and Scott Robinson each had a pair of hits to lead the Tri-City ValleyCats to a 4-0 victory over the Vermont Expos in New York-Penn League baseball action on Monday night at Centennial Field. ...
MATSUI GETTING SETTLED.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: BEN WALKER Associated Press - NEW YORK -- Hideki Matsui still has plenty to learn. Proved it during the weekend, in fact. Bounding out of the dugout to take a curtain call after a grand slam at Yankee Stadium, he got tangled up with hitting coach Rick Down. ...
YANKEES GRANT TRAMMELL SOME TIME AWAY.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Associated Press BALTIMORE -- The New York Yankees placed outfielder Bubba Trammell on the restricted list Monday, one day after he unexpectedly left the club for unspecified personal reasons. ``There's obviously something going on,'' Yankees manager Joe ...
TRYING TIME FOR TRYON.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: PETE DOUGHERTY Staff writer - NISKAYUNA -- Ty Tryon approached Blaine McCallister on the 17th hole of the Capital District Skins Game on Monday with a simple question. ``Do you do a lot of these?'' Tryon asked. Upon hearing the answer -- yes -- he asked, ...
GOLFERS GO ON IN STATE QUALIFIER.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Staff reports Tim Seeley of McGregor and Jim Mueller of Shaker Ridge were co-medalists and among 30 to advance Monday in the New York State Amateur qualifier at Olde Kinderhook. Seeley and Mueller each shot 2-over-par 74 to lead the 126-player field. The State Amateur ...
SHALALA FINDS MARK ON THE POWER PLAY.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: IAN O'CONNOR The second Donna Shalala joined the club, all 5 feet of her, the big boys of the Big East did not stand a chance. She already had won a championship for George Steinbrenner, challenged President Clinton's moral authority, scared off three thieves, and lived ...
NEW DESIGN FOR OLYMPIC MEDALS REFLECTS GREEK ORIGINS.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Combined wire services PRAGUE, Czech Republic -- For the first time in 76 years, there will be a major new design on the medals for the Summer Olympics. With the Olympics returning to their birthplace in Greece in 2004, local organizers wanted the medals to ...
DANES ADD RECRUITS.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Staff reports University at Albany men's lacrosse coach Scott Marr announced Monday that 14 student-athletes have made commitments to play for the Great Danes in 2003-04. UAlbany's program captured the America East Conference championship and made its first ...
HASEK CLEAR TO RETURN.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Combined wire services The Detroit Red Wings picked up Dominik Hasek's $8 million contract option for next season before Monday night's deadline, officially welcoming back the retired star and at the same time muddling their goaltending picture. The Wings ...
ONE RUSSIAN SURVIVES.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: CHARLES BRICKER South Florida Sun-Sentinel WIMBLEDON, England -- The Russians are nearly gone. There was a record five of them in the women's round of 16 at the close of business Saturday evening. By late afternoon Monday, only Svetlana Kuznetsova, who is a ...
DETROIT SUMMER TEAM GIVES DEANE A CHANCE.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: MARK SINGELAIS Staff writer Former Schenectady High guard Willie Deane has agreed to play for the NBA's Detroit Pistons in the Orlando Pro Summer League from July 8-12. Deane, who played collegiately at Purdue, was not selected in the NBA Draft last ...
FOR BEEM, FIRST CHILD COMES FIRST.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: Associated Press ROCHESTER -- Rich Beem is clear: The birth of his first child precedes the PGA Championship. ``I've already made up my mind that I'll leave as soon as everything is ready to go,'' Beem said Monday. Beem won last year's major at ...
LEAD SUGGESTS BAYLOR PLAYER SHOT IN HEAD.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: TOMMY WITHERSPOON Waco Tribune-Herald WACO, Texas -- Police are investigating reports that missing Baylor University basketball player Patrick Dennehy was shot in the head with a 9mm handgun by a former teammate after the two had argued, a court document released late ...
FANS GET DALY DOSE.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: PETE DOUGHERTY Staff writer NISKAYUNA -- All in the spirit of the day, a joking comment by a caddie awoke the sleeping giant Monday in the 11th annual Capital District Skins Game at Mohawk Golf Club. John Daly, the featured performer at the benefit for Ellis ...
BIG EAST AT A LOSS.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: WILLIAM KATES Associated Press - SYRACUSE -- Disappointed but not bitter, Syracuse University officials said it was time to forget about their failed courtship with the ACC and plan for the future of the Big East without Miami and Virginia Tech. ``Now it is ...
WIE'S AHEAD OF THE GAME.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: NORMAN CHAD Michelle Wie is 13, which means it will be three years until she can drive, five years until she can vote, and eight years until she can drink. And, perhaps, several more days until she can call herself the best female golfer in the land. She ...
PHILIPPOUSSIS COMES UP ACES AGAINST AGASSI.(SPORTS)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: CHRISTOPHER CLAREY New York Times - WIMBLEDON, England -- There are still six days of tennis left to play at the All England Club this year, but it is already certain that there will be a first-time men's champion at Wimbledon. Mark Philippoussis made sure of ...
BIRTHSBELLEVUE WOMAN'S HOSPITAL NISKAYUNA.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... DIAZ, Ethan Edward, son of Lori Boothe and Edward Diaz, Niskayuna, May 23. WADSWORTH, Mackenzie Noel, daughter of Rhonda and Wade Wadsworth, Charlton, 6 lbs. 6 oz., May 24. PANNHORST, Spencer Daniel, son of Caroline and Thomas Pannhorst, Clifton Park, 7 lbs. 14 oz., ...
BODY DISCOVERED AT SCHENECTADY HOME.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... SCHENECTADY -- Detectives and evidence technicians were at the scene late Monday of an Eastern Parkway home where a body was found, police said. Officers found the body at the home shortly after someone called police and asked that officers check on the well-being of a person ...
GUNMAN HOLDS UP ALBANY CRAFTS STORE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... ALBANY -- A gunman robbed a Delaware Avenue fabric shop Monday night as a knitting class watched in horror, police said. Department of Public Safety spokesman Detective James Miller said a masked man carrying a rifle or a shotgun barged into the Periwinkle Sheep Yarns and Fine ...
METROPLEX ASKED TO TAKE HELM OF COUNTY AGENCY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: MIKE GOODWIN Staff writer The Schenectady County Industrial Development Agency has asked the Metroplex Development Authority to run the agency, further consolidating countywide economic development under Metroplex, which was founded five years ago with the specific ...
COPS HURT IN TUSSLE WITH MAN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: MIKE GOODWIN Staff writer A police investigator and a patrol officer were recovering Monday from injuries they suffered while trying to restrain a suspect who they said went berserk in the detective division as the investigator prepared to question him about the theft of ...
19-YEAR-OLD CHARGED IN BANK ROBBERY.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... COLONIE -- State Police have arrested a 19-year-old Clifton Park man in connection with Saturday's robbery of a Troy Savings Bank in Halfmoon. Jesse M. LaBrake, of 3 Midway Mobile Home Park, was charged with third-degree robbery for allegedly stealing more than $1,000 from the bank, State ...
MAN GETS 18 YEARS IN MURDER ATTEMPT.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: CAROL DeMARE Staff writer Albany A city man who tried to electrocute his girlfriend by throwing a radio and hair dryer into her bathtub was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison after listening to the victim detail how the man she loved betrayed her. Ray ...
FORUM GIVES SENIORS ROUTE TO FULFILL NEEDS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: KATYA ROYTBURD Staff writer Lois Wilson helps seniors make their needs known through the Capital District Senior Issues Forum, which she co-founded five years ago at Westminster Presbyterian Church in Albany. In 1997, when the senior housing where Wilson's ...
POLITICIAN PLEADS GUILTY TO VOTING FRAUD CHARGES.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press NEW YORK -- Daniel Mahony, who once sought the Conservative Party's nomination for lieutenant governor, was fined $1,500 and ordered to perform 150 hours of community service after he pleaded guilty Monday to voting illegally. ...
REGENTS TESTING DIRECTOR DEPARTS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: KAREN W. ARENSON New York Times The director of the New York State Education Department's testing division was reassigned last week after widespread failures on the state's Math A Regents exam and has chosen to resign, according to members of the Board of Regents. ...
ADVOCATES FUME ABOUT DELAY IN CIGARETTE SAFETY LAW.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: ERIN DUGGAN Capitol bureau Advocates of new cigarette fire-safety requirements on Monday blasted the state for dragging its feet and potentially delaying implementation of the law for another year. Detailed safety standards needed to implement the law were ...
TUITION INCREASE APPROVED.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: ALAN WECHSLER Staff writer As expected, the SUNY Board of Trustees on Monday raised tuition for state university campuses. For undergraduate students from New York, tuition will increase $950, to $4,350, this fall. While an advocacy group expects ...
GROUP SUES OVER FIRE CODE.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: SAMUEL MAULL Associated Press - NEW YORK -- Families of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks filed a lawsuit Monday asking state Supreme Court in Manhattan to declare the Port Authority's real estate subject to New York City's fire and building codes. ...
BATTLE LOOMS OVER SUNY COLLEGE'S LEADERSHIP.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... ALBANY -- The State University of New York named a new administrator Monday to head troubled Rockland Community College, setting up an apparent showdown between the new chief and interim President Thomas Voss. SUNY Chancellor Robert King said he had to act because the college's ...
WITNESS SAYS MOM SOUGHT TO `SAVE' BOYS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: MICHELE MORGAN BOLTON Staff writer An acutely psychotic Christine Wilhelm tried to save her children from what she thought was a ``fate worse than death'' on April 15, 2002, when she drowned one son in the bathtub and tried to kill his brother, a psychiatrist testified ...
LINCOLN PARK LIKELY SPOT FOR A PLACE TO MOURN.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: BRIAN NEARING Staff writer The city of Albany wants to create a memorial area for murder and auto-accident victims, most likely in Lincoln Park. The city has been getting more requests from families who want to mark the sites of tragedies with a permanent ...
VIOLENT STORMS BRING FIRES AND CLOSE CALLS.(CAPITAL REGION)
Jul 01, 2003 ... Byline: DENNIS YUSKO Staff writer - Violent lightning storms pelted the Capital Region Sunday afternoon into early Monday, damaging homes, igniting a barn fire and injuring a Washington County man. About 12 hours of intermittent storms punctured the recent blanket of ...