Post-Standard, The (Newspaper) - January 5, 2000, Syracuse, New York The JANUARY 2000 GOOD MORNING GOING DOWN Feel like raising your arms high and letting out a big holler in the Q roller coaster Q Tuesday's 64 was a Hold today's wind chill makes ii feel like Complete 26 16 35 CENTS PERFECT ENDING FOR FLORIDA STATE Florida State's Peter Warrick led the way as the Seminoles defeated Virginia Tech 46-29 in the Sugar Bowl Tuesday At Florida players celebrate winning the national college football championship and giving their coach Bobby Bowden his first perfect PAGE C-l FINAL EDITION Fulton snake makes a break at the mall New Jets coach quits after one day on the job In Food a feast after the fast of Ramadan Easy pesto adds summer fun to winter dishes Nasdaq dives Hourly closes 293031 3'4 Dec. Jan. KRT Digest Greenspan gets 4th term as Wall Street plunges Alan Greenspan was for a fourth term as man of the Federal Reserve Tuesday by President who praised him for leading what will soon be the longest eco- nomic sion in histo- ry. Wall Street took a huge dive but analysts blamed inter- est rate not Greenspan's The the best er in suffered its worst point loss in history dropping 229.46 to or 3.2 to close at 10.997.93. It was the Dow's point PAGE TLC lead Grammy nominations Carlos whose career caught fire when he gave a scorching performance at stock in received 10 Grammy nations day for his comeback In pop music the group TLC Santana was second with six nominations for the album PAGE CAU ENTER 6205 French caveman celebrates New Year 3'A days late Like many el rang in 2000 with a meal of foie white wine and Except he did it who without a watch or calendar descended feet Nov. 30 to the grotto in southern France to help study sleep celebrated the New Year at p.m. local lime Tuesday more than days He reports to scientists on the surface about what day he thinks it and he didn't realize that Monday was his 61st Corrections Onondaga County sheriffs deputy Mark salutatorian at Paul V. Moore High School in Central Capt. Deborah McCoy of Continental To discuss a call Deputy Executive Editor Tim Bunn at 470-2240. driver police say Index f Local 1-12 0-6 1-6 1-9 171st NO. 60 Passenger's story leads to man sleeping in car wanted in fatal police By Erin Duggan Staff writer A man who told police he was high on cocaine with his cruise control set at 60 mph on a city street Saturday night was charged Tuesday in the run death of a pregnant Syracuse police A passenger in the car with Tamar D. of 359 ton said they stopped at a car wash after the accident and washed blood off the front of the white car before heading to a local Syracuse Police Sgt. Donald Hilton After a two-day Baker was charged with criminally ligent homicide after he was found asleep in the car in the parking lot behind 703 W. daga St. Tuesday police Monday night the owner of the Fort Drum soldier elle reported her car stolen to police and later told them she was in the car when the accident said Sgt. David Lone of 107 E. log St. died at the scene of the accident in the 300 block of West Kennedy Street late Saturday night from head Friends and relatives said also the mother of a 6-year-old was in the first trimester of her Baker told police he set the cruise control on Horn's white Pontiac Grand Prix at 60 mph as he sped down the 20 mph after taking alcohol and other drugs Saturday Sackett Police said the car hit Scott from behind as she was walking in the Baker and Horn found the blood and took the car to the Hess station at the corner of South Slate Street and Erie evard East and put it through the automatic car Hilton They spent the night at the Econo Lodge on James as police scoured the city and surrounding area with a vague description of a white Baker borrowed Horn's car and didn't Monday afternoon Horn met with officers and re- ported her car and they brought her in for She told police she met Baker at Carousel Center a few days and they had spent the weekend police officers put two and two Sackett she hadn't called in aboul who Armed with the detailed of the Police cers Jeffrey Callahan and Sgt. Shannon Trice found Baker in the driver's seat of the 1995 Grand Prix parked at about 11 a.m. They brought Baker to the police and he ad- mitted to driving the car that killed PAGE Nicholas Staff photographer LABORER JOE TERRINONI yells to a co-worker to power up a generator Tuesday at the concrete vault at Franklin Street that will trap solid waste from Burnet Avenue and Butternut Street sewers to keep sewage from flowing into Onondaga Creek in heavy The million project is scheduled to be finished in Federal Expert Visits To Get To Bottom of Lake Debate Water visit is part of a promise from simmer By Mark Weiner Staff writer The federal government's top official over- seeing issues visited Syracuse fulfilling President Clinton's promise lo lake an in the future of Onondaga J. Charles administrator of Ihc U.S. En- spent the day ing wilh those involved in the Onondaga Lake cleanup Fox said he was on a finding mission prompted by President who look an interest in the nation's most polluted lake while vacationing on tine Lake this After reading an article in The aboul Ihc plight of Onondaga the dent and first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton a prominent lake and head of a Syracuse group to meet with them in At the summer meeting and in a Dec. 7 President Clinton promised to have Ihc federal look inio con- cerns about the million Onondaga Lake cleanup That plan was approved by a eral judge in January despite objections aboul ils validity from leading lake Now it is Fox's job to sort out Ihc sy and make recommendations will lead to a clean Onondaga Lake lhal complies with eral Clean Water Act primary goal here today was one of Fox wanted lo speak with a lot of interested parties involved in the lake We want to make tions to the White House Council on mental Quality and to Fox met separately Tuesday U S. Rep. James Onondaga County Executive Nicholas stale Department of Environmental Conservation Regional Director Ken and Samuel president of At- States Legal a Syracuse en- group lhal sued Ihc counly lo stop ils sewage pollution of the UKE PAGE The State of Break Governor's address promises tax cut and energy help for region's By Erik Kriss Albany Bureau Gov. George Pataki today plans to unveil a million tax cut and incentive plan aimed at supercharging the Upstate my at the dawn of the 21st In his sixth State of the State message the Republican chief executive will call for the gross receipts tax on energy use and cutting taxes on small For the second lime in two he will push for tax credits for businesses that create jobs in such as Pataki also will push for an ad- 200 megawatts of cheap power for businesses under the Power For Jobs He will ask for creation of siale prise offering lax lives in areas where employment Speech televised Public TV station will air Gov. George State of the State message live at 1 p.m. Albany It's opening day at the growth is below the statewide take all of the said Irwin executive vice president of the Metropolitan De- velopment a leading economic ning and promotion just what we be- cause it's a balance of the kind of tax relief that's truly hindering growth with some very useful economic incentives to help us in the high-tech field and all ihe way down to 1 think il's and I hope that in the spirit of cooperation both sides of the aisle can hammer out a thai will include most of those CNY PAGE douses tire burning plan Public opinion agency to withdraw its request to bum tires in its By Mark Weiner and Greg Munno Staff writers For the second lime in four Onondaga trash agency has backed away from plans 10 burn lires in iis ator in response to overwhelming public The Onondaga County Re- source Recovery Agency an- Tuesday it will no er seek permission to conduct a test of burning tires after it became clear ihe public was still nol sold on the The slate Department of received letters and lions from more lhan 500 people opposed lo Ihc wilh only aboul six people in said Robert the DEC's regional move comes less than iwo weeks after hundreds of residents packed mentary School for iwo public hearings on Ihc plan lo bum up lo 30 tons of lires a clay for two weeks to prove the incinerator on Rock Cut Road in Onondaga could safely burn lires on a lar At the afler expressed sure wilh ihe Director Tom Rhoads said the agency's decision to withdraw its tion from the of En- Conservation was in response lo the public's abundantly clear that there is not broad community support for proceeding with even a lest Rhoads He said the agency's hoard of tors decided thai withdrawing the application was the agency's best Syracuse Mayor Roy and Counly Executive Nicholas Pirro praised for ing to the fact of the mailer is I support and I under- stand they play a very important role in our di lire burning was something I received an awful lot of complaints aboul from people in the was con- cerned thai has bigger PAGE i FOR NOME CALL 470-NEWS
