CSEA vows resistance to New York layoff proposal
The Civil Service Employees Association opposes a proposed amendment giving New York state authority to temporarily lay off workers without pay. Union leaders warn of morale loss and job protection erosion amid budget pressures and federal cuts. OER officials confirm a confidential memo proposing furloughs for staff.
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Albany
Civil Service Employees Association
New York
Gary Fryer
CSEA
Fryer
Albany Imes Union
Meyer Frucher
State Office of Employee Relations
OER
Betsy Buechner
C. Mark Lawton
Frucher
Thruway cleanup continues after tanker spill
State officials say the Thruway will stay open as crews finish cleaning a Toluene Di-Isocyanate spill in Montgomery County. A tanker overturned Wednesday, closing the Fultonville to Herkimer stretch for over 30 hours. Crews opened eastbound lanes Friday after covering the gel with plastic sheets. Health Department says no hazard and aims to prevent further closures.
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Fultonville
UPI
Montgomery County
Herkimer
Her
Kimer
Canajoharie
Arthur Isabel
Thruway Authority
Thruway
State Health Department
Isabel
Bloodier Christmas Weekend Hits New York City
A brutal stretch over Christmas weekend left at least 23 people dead in New York City from lovers quarrels, subway shootings, and a cigarette dispute. Among the victims were an off duty officer shot in Brooklyn and a man killed in a Queens burglary tied attack. Police noted the year to date homicide rate running slightly higher than 1980.
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Adriane C. Markusen
New York
UPI
New York City
Thomas Fahey
John Kerge
Brooklyn
Kerye
Carmen Velez
Miss Velez
William Morales
Slain priest known as a friend to everybody in West Texas
In Odessa, Texas a 51 year old Roman Catholic priest Rev Patrick Ryan was found beaten and naked in a motel room likely killed in a robbery. His body was identified days after he went missing from Denver City where he served as parish priest. The car was found in Hobbs New Mexico and a police officer called him a friend to everybody. The investigation focuses on two men seen with Ryan and the motel registration using a false name. The community mourns a saintly man who served two towns of about 5 000 and was known for his kindness.
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Odessa
Texas
Patrick Ryan
Hobbs
N.M
Paddy
Denver City
Ryan
Denver
Justice of
Jimmy Harris
Kenneth Jones
Jones
Doon
Ireland
St. William Catholic Church
Plains
Pierre St. Romaine
St. Francis of Assisi
Sears vintage mail orders built American dream homes
ANGOLA AP recounts Sears Roebuck mail order homes from 1909 to 1937, about 100000 families built houses from precut materials mailed by rail. Homes lacked logos, mingling with other bungalows, while Sears offered financing and a full wish book of furniture and appliances. Today collectors value the era’s architecture and quality, though Sears records are sparse.
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Angola
Sears, Roebuck and Co
Richard Sears
Sears
America
Tiny transit thief joins gang in Manhattan mugging
Police hunt a 3 foot tall boy thought to be a brother of one of four teens who mugged a 16 year old on a southbound subway train at 2 45 am. The group stole 15 dollars a vest and jacket at knife point and punched the youth in the eye before fleeing. The victim refused medical care.
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New York
UPJ
Manhattan
Niagara Falls woman faces double murder charge in scalding deaths
Margaret Thomas, 31, tied her two young children to rid them of evil spirits and allegedly scalded them to death. She was admitted to Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center with an unspecified illness under 24 hour police guard as arraignment looms in hospital.
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Niagara Falls
UPI
Raymond Smith
Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center
Margaret Thomas
Smith
Thomas
Michelle
Tyronne
Richard Clute
Niagara County
Mount Eagle Estates
Holiday weekend accidents kill 11 on New York highways
United Press International reports at least 11 people died on New York highways during the Christmas weekend and four more perished in fires including two children. Snow and slick roads caused major delays on I-87 in Saratoga County and a Canajoharie house fire killed Maria Paluzzi, 12, and Angela Paluzzi, 6, trapping them upstairs.
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New York
Hudson Valley
National Weather Service
Interstate 87
Saratoga County
Ers
Weather Service
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
Montgomery County
Canajoharie
Maria Paluzzi
Angela
Salvation Army weighs reviving soup kitchens in crisis
In New York and Philadelphia, the Salvation Army contemplates reopening soup kitchens as unemployment rises and federal social service cuts bite. Spokeswoman Frances Weiss says regional divisions should prepare practical responses for an economic crisis, including soup kitchens, while Maj. Alice Stehley notes societal reintegration challenges if revived.
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New York
UPI
Salvation Army
Frances Weiss
Philadelphia
Maj
Alice Stehley
Social Service
Lotto drawings reveal New York numbers and supplementaries
The Saturday Lotto numbers were 37 17 18 34 40 26 with supplementary 27. The daily numbers drawing produced 114.
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New York
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Yonkers
Health Department
Nyc
James Haynes
Queens
Ronnie Wuerch
Elmhurst General Hospital
Wuerch
Tula
Morales
Nicholas Gerek
Lower Manhattan
Gerek
Union
Chicago
Ted Erfer
Hifer
Pennsylvania
Company
Davidson
N.C
Davidson College
Sedgewick
Kan
Washington, D.C
McLean
Buffalo
N.Y
Nancy Heil
United Press International
Salvation Army of
Herald-Journal
the Herald Co
Syracuse
Amos
Ais Sunde
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