State
- Legislator questions SUNY tuition increase
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By Tom Precious
NEWS ALBANY BUREAU
Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- ALBANY — A tuition increase at State University of New York campuses ran into opposition Wednesday from a key state legislator.
- Father drowns saving sons from car in pond
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By Ben Dobbin
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- MANCHESTER— It had been a very special treat: a Monday night trip with his father to watch the Buffalo Bills.
- Philanthropist, partner convicted of fraud
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — Alberto Vilar, a pillar of philanthropy for opera and cultural institutions worldwide, and his business partner were convicted Wednesday on fraud charges for swindling investors, including the mother of actress Phoebe Cates, out of millions of dollars.
- Prostitute apologizes to wife of Spitzer
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- NEW YORK — The prostitute at the center of the scandal that brought down former Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer said she has undergone “intense” psychotherapy since the events that generated national headlines and feels especially bad for his wife.
- FBI agent fatally shot near Pittsburgh
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- GLENSHAW, Pa. (AP) — An FBI agent trying to arrest a cocaine- dealing suspect at a home near Pittsburgh was killed Wednesday by the man’s wife, who might have thought she was shooting an intruder, authorities said.
- Banker admits killing landlord’s terrier
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — A banker who was accused of stomping and beating his landlord’s Boston terrier to death pleaded guilty Wednesday to misdemeanor animal cruelty charges.
- LeMoyne receives $50 million bequest
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Updated: 11/20/08 6:12 AM
- SYRACUSE (AP) — The estate of a Binghamton couple is giving $50 million to LeMoyne College, the single largest donation in school history and one of the largest ever to a Jesuit-run school.
- Homeless to get help during cold weather
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — Cold temperatures are forecast for New York City, and officials are dispatching emergency teams to keep homeless people from freezing in the streets.
- Mayor may not cancel city tax rebate checks
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — Two weeks after Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said he was canceling $400 property tax rebate checks for more than 600,000 homeowners, the mayor has conceded that he may not have the authority to do so.
- Spitzer’s prostitute to appear on ‘20/20’
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Updated: 11/19/08 6:49 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — The prostitute at the center of the scandal that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer and generated national headlines is going on television to discuss her life as a pricey escort.
- Governor, Legislature fail to act on deficit
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By Tom Precious
News Albany Bureau
Updated: 11/19/08 7:38 AM
- ALBANY — Gov. David A. Paterson and the State Legislature collectively threw up their hands Monday and scurried out of Albany after failing to act on the state’s worsening fiscal crisis.
- Paterson holds off on plan for state budget cuts
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By Tom Precious
NEWS ALBANY BUREAU
Updated: 11/18/08 8:18 AM
- ALBANY — Staring at a major policy defeat, Gov. David A. Paterson suggested late Monday night that he might pull back on the special session scheduled today for lawmakers to consider ways to close a $2 billion deficit in the current state budget.
- Hate crime suspected in slaying of gay man
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Updated: 11/18/08 6:58 AM
- SYRACUSE (AP) — A Syracuse man was being held without bail Monday after a fatal shooting that police said might have been a hate crime.
- Theft of body parts blamed on deception
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Updated: 11/18/08 6:58 AM
- ROCHESTER (AP) — A former funeral director testified Monday that an unscrupulous biomedical company owner had duped him into removing body parts without permission from 23 corpses.
- Tug Hill Plateau town gets 2 feet of snow
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Updated: 11/18/08 6:58 AM
- CONSTABLEVILLE (AP) — A blast of cold wind spread snow along the Great Lakes from Michigan to New York on Monday, dumping 2 feet on this central New York town.
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