Patient rights bill aims to empower consumers in health plans
Backers of patient rights begin a fifth year of debate on protecting consumers in managed care. They push Congress to grant new rights to sue insurers and seek court relief while Bush signals support and principles for reform. House and Senate members plan to reintroduce broad tort reform measures amid stalled action.
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Pataki Maintains Double Digit Lead in Polls
Pataki holds a double digit edge over Democratic rivals in recent polls. A Zogby International survey shows Pataki at 48 percent with Cuomo at 37 percent and McCall at 38 percent in separate matchups. John Hill named senior policy adviser replacing Zenia Mucha who leaves for ABC.
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Woman testifies she saw Combs fire gun at club New York
Natania Reuben testified she saw Sean Combs fire a handgun before she was wounded in a nightclub melee on December 27, 1999. The witness, 30, is the trial’s 12th, the second to claim seeing a gun on Combs, while Jamaal Barrow faces three counts of attempted murder and others face gun possession and bribery charges.
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Kinmen boat tour tale hints at deep family rifts
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Putin fires energy minister amid heating failures
Moscow reports tens of thousands of Russians shivering in unheated apartments as President Putin dismisses the energy minister and resigns a regional governor. Temperatures drop to minus 58 in some Far Eastern and Siberian regions. The report questions Russia's heating policy and funding for repairs and energy production.
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Poverty fight must target rural areas, says UN IFAD
A UN IFAD report warns that half the effort to cut extreme poverty by 2015 will fail unless aid shifts from cities to rural areas. It notes 75 percent of the 12 billion people living on less than a dollar daily are in rural, agriculture based economies.
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Former employee shoots 4 dead at Illinois engine plant
At an Illinois International Truck and Engine plant in Melrose Park a 68 year old former worker killed four people and wounded four before turning the gun on himself. Police identified him as William D. Baker. The rampage began at about 10 am as a security guard confronted him inside the vast building. The plant shut down and prepared counselors as investigators probed the shooting and motive.
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California seizes second utility contracts top energy plan
Gov. Gray Davis uses emergency powers to claim 150 million in Pacific Gas and Electric buying agreements and 200 million in Southern California Edison contracts. The moves aim to cut costs from 25 cents plus per kilowatt hour to long term supply, easing looming blackouts amid the state's energy crisis.
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Three Students Charged Over Royal Valley High School Plot
Three students accused of modeling after the Columbine killers were charged with planning an attack on Royal Valley High School in May possibly during a dance. Police found bomb making materials floor plans of the school a modified assault rifle ammunition and white supremacist drawings after a tip from another student.
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Countdown begins for Destiny lab on space station
The Atlantis shuttle lifts off at 6 11 p m Wednesday carrying the Destiny laboratory module, a 16 ton centerpiece costing 1 38 billion dollars. Destiny is the most expensive single piece of the ISS and will anchor the orbiting complex as a decade of research begins.
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Kennedy Cousin Confesses in Martha Moxley Murder
The Greenwich Time reports that witnesses will testify Kennedy nephew Michael Skakel admitted involvement in the 1975 murder of Martha Moxley. Unidentified sources say two men who testified in court have quoted Skakel confessing while at a drug rehab center.
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Corrections policy and contact details for Syracuse Herald-Journal
The Syracuse Herald Journal outlines correction procedures and contact numbers for complaints and service issues. Readers are urged to call Tim Bunn at 470-2240 for corrections and Customer Service at 470-0050 if deliveries are late.
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