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Newsday
July 26, 2007
Queens edition
Page A67
Phone might ring up charges on ex-ref
Brooklyn federal prosecutors have a number of laws, including some from the days of the Boston College point-shaving scandal, they might use to bring charges in the NBA betting scandal surrounding referee Tim Donaghy.
The statutes run from bans on transmitting betting information over the telephone – punishable by up to 2 years in prison – to the draconian racketeering conspiracy laws with 20-year sentences. (by Anthony M. Destefano)
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Newsday
July 20, 2007
Queens edition
Page A16
He dies; they wonder why
Alexander Day was an amateur boxer, a good student and a faithful churchgoer who dreamed of owning a business. And news of his murder drew a response from family and friends that is often heard after teens are killed: “I can’t believe this happened.”
Those close to Day, 17, said yesterday that they couldn’t comprehend why anyone would want to harm him. Day was shot and killed on Wednesday at about 10:52 p.m. outside his Hempstead home. An 18-year-old Hempstead man also was wounded in the attack, police said. (Michael Frazier)
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Newsday
July 19, 2007
Long Island edition
Page A34
Guiding
light for
worried
walkers
The days pedestrians have to dodge cars while crossing Main Street at Prospect Street in Huntington will soon end when the state installs a traffic light with a countdown clock, officials said. (Deborah S. Morris)
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Newsday
July 13, 2007
Long Island edition
Page A7
Pols take
swing at
cart policy
Nassau’s new policy mandating that golfers use electric carts rather than walk Eisenhower Park’s Red Course — even as County Executive Thomas Suozzi promotes his “Healthy Nassau” initiatives — drew darts yesterday from lawmakers, park users and even a municipal neighbor. …
Nassau Legis. Lisanne Altmann (D-Great Neck) asked the Democratic counsel to draw up a resolution prohibiting the county from requiring carts, while Minority Leader Peter Schmitt (R-Massapequa) called for hearings, contending that only the legislature can issue mandates. (Celeste Hadrick)
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Newsday
July 12, 2007
Long Island edition
Page A18
Poof! He
reappears
The fifth big-screen version of Harry Potter’s adventures at Hogwarts held plenty of charm for fans who stayed up into the early morning hours yesterday to see the latest film in the series, “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.” (Christina Hernandez)
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Newsday
July 11, 2007
Long Island edition
Page A15
Moovin’ out:
Fugitive bull
free at last
Moo, the freedom-loving steer who gallivanted on the North Fork for weeks while evading the long arm of the law, received a pardon from the slaughterhouse and will spend the rest of his days on an animal sanctuary, according to several people who helped arrange his safe haven. (Andrew Strickler)
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Newsday
July 10, 2007
Long Island edition
Page A16
Spitzer soothes, but his party pummels GOP
ALBANY — Even as Gov. Eliot Spitzer attempted yesterday to defuse his nasty fight with Senate Republicans, the state Democratic Party that he heads continued to air advertisements against the senators. (James T. Madore)
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Newsday
July 10, 2007
Long Island edition
Page A22
Canada, U.S. both hot for the Arctic
TORONTO — Canada announced plans yesterday to increase its Arctic military presence in an effort to assert sovereignty over the Northwest Passage — a potentially oil-rich region the United States claims is international territory. (The Associated Press)
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Newsday
July 10, 2007
Long Island edition
Page A28
No room for discussion
A public hearing on a planned $2-billion development for the Village of Hempstead was postponed last night after an crowd of more than 200 people jammed Village Hall. (William Murphy)
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July 6, 2007
Newsday
Long Island edition
Page A34
Words
healing
wounds
Mickey Basner, of Woodmere, writes from experience. Because of his stroke two years ago, he said he understands the tough road to recovery for soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan who have suffered traumatic brain injuries.
Jim Cockren, of Hicksville, who was in a coma for three weeks after a medical accident, empathizes with the more than 20 percent of wounded soldiers who, according to ongoing medical studies, have received brain injuries, mostly from roadside bombings.
The two are members of a traumatic brain injury support group who wrote letters of encouragement to U.S. soldiers now coping with war-related brain injuries. The letters, most of them painfully scrawled by participants with vision loss, were written at a group therapy session sponsored by the Jewish Community Center of the Greater Five Towns. (Rhoda Amon)
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July 5, 2007
Newsday
Long Island edition
Page A38
Apple stock high on iPhone buzz – for now
For the giddy Apple groupies who spent hours, or days, in line for an iPhone, it all came down to the final reward: snagging a new technology for $600 that has yet to prove itself.
For some investors, a similar risk-reward gamble is playing out. They’ve jumped into Apple stock betting the hype around the gadget’s launch will fatten their wallets.
So far, so good. Apple’s stock has soared more than 40 percent since chief executive Steve Jobs unveiled plans for the iPhone in January. It closed at $122.04 Friday, two hours before the device went on sale, and rose to 127.17 yesterday. (Kim Hart and Tomoeh Murakami Tse, The Washington Post)
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July 4, 2007
Newsday
Long Island edition
Page A16
Cops: He
was linen
burglar
A Baldwin man was arraigned yesterday in a string of burglaries in his own neighborhood, Nassau police said. …
Portillo first robbed, on Friday, a Twain Street home a few blocks from his basement apartment, where he took an air conditioner, a bedspread, pillows and sheets, and clothing, police said. (Sophia Chang)
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July 4, 2007
Newsday
Queens edition
Page A17
Heels
over
head for
new pool
Omari Corbin, 9, plays yesterday in the Floating Pool Lady, a pool anchored in the future location of Brooklyn Bridge Park Beach. The pool and sandy beach, which includes volleyball courts and soccer areas, opens today on Brooklyn’s waterfront. It marks the first time in more than 200 years that the public has had access to the area near the piers below Brooklyn Heights. (The Associated Press)
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June 21, 2007
Newsday
Long Island edition
Page A34
Village
clears
Joel for
docking
A dispute between Billy Joel and Sag Harbor over ownership of two docks has been resolved with the musician getting a safe place to keep his boats and the village obtaining some waterfront property.
The settlement approved by the village board last week stipulates that Joel owns the floating docks and will be able to rebuild them as he has tried to do since he bought them in 2002 along with a Bay Street house that was previously a fish market. (Bill Bleyer)
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June 15, 2007
Newsday
Queens edition
Page A22
Googling Bloomberg
Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn’t running for president, but he will go before Google employees next week in California for a question-and-answer session as four presidential candidates have done. (The Associated Press)
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June 12, 2007
Newsday
Long Island edition
Page A16
Nassau pockets emptying fast
Nassau County will likely owe far more in property assessment refunds in 2007 than the $50 million it had budgeted, officials said yesterday.
Eric Naughton, director of the Legislative Budget Review office, told a legislative committee that the county will owe about $28 million to people who won residential property assessment refunds. And less than halfway through the year, Nassau already has paid $22 million to people who have won commercial assessment refunds, said Regina Goodman of the Assessment Review Commission. (Reid J. Epstein)
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June 9, 2007
Newsday
Long Island edition
Page A10
Doing a duty against doo-doo
Four girls at Birch Lane Elementary School in Massapequa Park know a lot about goose droppings.
They know a goose can produce about a half-pound of the stuff per day. They know that adds up to about 75,000 pounds per year from the hundreds of Canada geese waddling around their playgrounds and fields.
Sixth-graders Arielle Dhaim, Cassandra Chiocco, Grace Hoar and Nicolette Festa researched the bowel movements of geese and invented a plow that can clear fields of goose goop as part of a community service and science project that has made them the only finalists from New York State in a nationwide contest later this month at Disney World. (Jennifer Sinco Kelleher)
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Nov. 9, 2006
AmericanObserver.net
Home page headline
House turns blue, Republicans, too
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 — Rep. Thomas Reynolds stepped behind a podium on Capitol Hill Wednesday morning after the GOP lost its majority in the House the night before.
Reynolds, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, apologized to reporters for arriving late to the news conference because he had to “take off his life preserver” after entering the building.
Rain drenched Washington most of Wednesday morning. Fog draped over the Capitol dome.
For Republicans, the day was gloomy, several said. For Democrats, it was bright with promise.
Reynolds said he needed the life preserver because of “the rain and from last night” when Democrats sank their Republican opponents. They declared control of the House for the first time since 1994 in what proved to be a dark evening for the GOP. (Andrew Knapp)
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April 12, 2006
Bangor Daily News
All editions
Page B1
Geometry + algebra = good time at math meet
Nearly 900 high school students filled Alfond Arena Tuesday without making a sound. Sitting at long tables, hunched over clipboards, they chewed furiously on gum and nervously played with locks of hair as they mulled over math questions. (Ruth Ellen Cohen)
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