Pay phone rate hike eyed to quarter in New York
A state hearing officer backed New York Telephone in raising pay phone calls from a dime to 25 cents. The move part of a rate hike request totaling about 773 million dollars annually to Ma Bell. A PSC spokesman said full board decision due around April 1.
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Albany
New York
Public Service Commission
Thomas Matias
PSC
Ma Bell
Rivett
Matius
New York State
Court upholds powers of state's liquor board
The Court of Appeals affirmed the exclusive wide reach of New York ABC law preventing local governments from regulating liquor sales. It struck down Rochester's after-hours club ordinance that barred unlicensed 2 am sales, citing state supremacy in liquor regulation. The decision notes ABC law governs all sellers of alcohol and criminalizes unlicensed sales.
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Liquor Board
Albany
Court of Appeals
New York
ABC Board
Rochester
Monroe
High Court
Monroe County
ABC Law
Domenick Gabrielli
Matthew Jason
Nine upstate counties approved for disaster loans
Albany AP reports the U S Department of Agriculture has declared nine upstate New York counties eligible for disaster loans due to heavy frost damage last winter and spring. The eligible counties are Erie Niagara Ontario Orleans Schuyler Steuben Ulster Wayne and Yates.
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Albany
U.S. Department of Agriculture
New York
Erie
Niagara
Ontario
Orleans
Schuyler
Steuben
Ulster
Wayne
Yates
Explosion Injures Two NM Workers at Albany Office
Two Niagara Mohawk Power Corp gas mechanics were seriously hurt when a boiler room explosion tore a wall at 1125 Broadway Albany. The blast, caused by a cherry picker hitting a 12 inch gas line, collapsed the boiler room roof. victims Grady McClaney and Carl F. Cunniff Jr. were hospitalized in critical and serious condition respectively. The building was evacuated and heat cut off, with emergency crews remaining on site. Albert Molchan, Cherry picker driver, and crews assessed damages to several trucks.
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Albany
Niagara Mohawk Power Corp
Broadway
Bob O'Brien
Niagara Mohawk
Grady McClaney
Albany Medical, Center
Elmer Streeter
Carl F. Cunniff Jr
Clifton Park
O’brien
O'Brien
Albert Molchan
Utility Equipment Leasing Corp
Waukesha
DOE: no hazard from 37 million gallons of waste dumped
The Department of Energy says dumping 37 million gallons of low level radioactive waste on an industrial site in Tonawanda 35 years ago left no health hazard to workers or nearby residents. The finding was in a December letter to Rep. John La Falce’s office, as part of a yet-to-be released report.
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Tonawanda
US Department of Energy
Ter
U.S
John LaFalce
Buffalo Courier-Express
DOE
State Assembly
Linde Air Products
Judge frees Weather Underground member tied to 1970 bomb
Cathryn Wilkerson, once a Weather Underground member, is freed after 11 months in a Westchester state facility. Judge Harold Rothwax cited no useful purpose in longer confinement after she pleaded guilty to possession of dynamite related to the Greenwich Village townhouse bombing that killed three people.
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NEW York
Weather Underground
Cathryn Wilkerson
Westchester County
Miss Wilkerson
State Supreme Court
Harold Rothwax
Greenwich Village
Katherine Boudin
Rockland County
West 11Th Street
Rothwax
Carey Grants Drug Clemency To Three Inmates
Governor Hugh Carey commuted minimum drug sentence terms for three state prisoners. Sidney Johnson age 56 from New York City, Vernon Baby age 30 from Westchester County, and Ernest McClean age 34 from New York City will become eligible for earlier parole after clemency.
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Albany
Hugh Carey
Sidney Johnson
New York City
Vernon Baby
Westchester County
Ernest McClean
New York high court upholds drug-sniffing dog ruling
The Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that trained police dogs like Frog do not violate constitutional protections against unreasonable searches when sniffing luggage. The decision stems from a Buffalo case where Frog alerted on luggage at Los Angeles Airport, leading to heroin findings in Buffalo.
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Thomas Finnegan
Moira
Franklin County
Finnegan
Albany
Frog
Court of Appeals
Leonard Price
Buffalo
Los Angeles
Price
New York State
New York
Matthew Ayasen
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Francis Rivettt
Union Carbide
Linde Division
Carey
Gary
VISA
Mastercard
Rai A
DR. Grabow
Kodak Instant Color Film
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