Stabber linked to racially charged attacks in Buffalo area
Police and prosecutors seek a witness, an unknown Black woman who spoke briefly with a white man before a knife assault on Albert Menefee. The same suspect is tied to earlier racially motivated stabbings and the September killings, with a wider probe involving 1,700 interviews and surveillance of two men. An FBI artist is preparing a composite sketch and task force members may travel to New York City to compare cases.
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Buffalo
UPI
Albert Menefee
Erie County
Cosgrove
Larry Little
Little
Menefee
Calvin Crippen
Roger Adams
Windell Barnes
Rochester
FBI
Barnes
New York City
Upstate
Leroy Harris
Harris
New York public employee growth among the nation’s lowest
The Citizens Public Expenditure Survey finds New York’s public employment rose only 6 percent from 1969 to 1979, tied with South Dakota for the smallest increase. Payroll grew 96 percent, and New York ranked third in local government employees per 10,000 population. Alaska had the fastest payroll growth and highest per capita staffing.
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Albany
UPI
New York
South Dakota
Citizens
New York State
Wyoming
Georgia
Alaska
California
CPES
CPHS
Rescued climber recovering after Adirondack rescue
Two Brooklyn men stranded on Algonquin Mountain were rescued by a helicopter after a frigid night in the Adirondacks. Michael Boxer, 19, in good condition at Saranac Lake General Hospital, and Steven Sygman, 21, discharged yesterday, were treated for frostbitten toes. Professs of environment officials aided in the rescue, which began after they were reported missing Friday during a weeklong college trip.
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Brooklyn
Algonquin Mountain
High Peaks
Adirondacks
Michael Boxer
Saranac Lake General Hospital
Steven Sygman
Gary Hodgson
Dave Ames
Department of Environmental Conservation
Charles Wolfe
Boxer
Sygman
Hodgson
Ames
Lake Placid
High Peak
Four States Face Water Restrictions Amid Delaware River Drought
The Delaware River Basin Commission plans to announce potential water use limits for New York New Jersey Pennsylvania and Delaware as supplies fall to drought emergency levels. Spokesman Dawes Thompson expects a drought emergency declaration in about a week granting power to stricter water controls.
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Delaware
Dawes Thompson
Delaware River Basin Commission
Commission
Delaware River System
New York
New
Jersey
Pennsylvania
State legislators brace for Albany session battles
Albany awaits Gov. Hugh Carey State of the State as lawmakers tackle a long 1981 agenda. They will redraw district lines after the 1980 census, consider tax cuts, welfare boosts, property tax reform, crime measures, handgun limits, and a mass transit financing plan. Mental health of revenues and state spending cap loom large amid battles over education funding and oil industry taxes.
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Albany
UPI
Hugh Carey
John Lennon
Carey
Assembly
Stanley Fink
Senate
Warren Anderson
Lederer sworn in on trial's first day
Rep Raymond Lederer sworn in for a third term as he goes on trial in Brooklyn on bribery and conspiracy charges in the Abscam case. He is accused of taking a $50 000 payoff from an undercover agent and sharing it with three others. The meeting at Kennedy Airport hotel was videotaped.
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Lederer
New York
UPI
Raymond Lederer
FBI
Abscam
Philadelphia
U.S
Brooklyn
United States
Kennedy Airport
Camden
N.J
Angelo Errichetti
Howard Criden
Louis Johanson
Michael Myers
D-Pa
Edward Korman
2Nd
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Harris murder trial resumes after holiday break
In White Plains AP reports the defense returns to present their case in the Jean Harris murder trial of Herman Tarnower. Defense attorney Joel Aurnou aims to show Tarnower was shot during a struggle as Harris tried to take her own life amid alleged affairs. The defense fights to admit notes Harris allegedly wrote about suicide. prosecutors argue the letters are tainted and uncertain. The trial includes testimony from a pathologist and ballistics experts about the nature and distance of Tarnower’s wounds.
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White Plains
Jean Harris
Scarsdale
Herman Tarnower
Joel Aurnou
Tarnower
Harris
Madeira School For Girls
McLean
Aarnou
George Bolen
Burneu
Westchester County Court
Russell R. Leggett
Aurnou
Ralligues
Joseph Reich
Roch
Seven Torah Scrolls Stolen From Brooklyn Synagogue
Police say seven handwritten Torah scrolls worth 105000 dollars were stolen from Congregation Yeshiva Yavne in Borough Park, Brooklyn, between 6 15 p m Saturday and 11 30 a m yesterday. Rabbi Solomon Shapiro reported the loss, noting the scrolls were not insured and the 30 member synagogue could not raise replacement funds.
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New York
UPI
Brooklyn
Yeshiva Yavne
Borough Park
Solomon Shapiro
New York Lotto Drawing Sets Saturday Numbers
Winning numbers for New York state weekly Lotto drawn Saturday are 27 36 28 39 23 22 with supplementary 38. The top prize number drawn Saturday was 127.
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New York
UPI
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