DeWitt surgeon slain as wife wounded at home
Prominent Syracuse surgeon Dr. Herbert Lourie, 57, was shot dead at his DeWitt home while his wife Betty, 58, was wounded. The attacker, a uniformed man in his 40s, rang the doorbell and asked to see Dr Lourie. Police pursued multiple leads as investigators canvassed witnesses and neighbors.
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Herbert Laurie
Litchfield Drive
University Hospital
Betty
Crouse Irving Memorial Hospital
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DeWatt
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Wahl
Lourie
Armand Cincotta
Cincotta
Colunt
Postal Service
Ice
Herbert Lourie
Laurie
Barbara
Investigators probe cause of fatal Tompkins County plane crash
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board and Federal Aviation Administration search wreckage on Auburn Road North Lansing after a single engine Cherokee 140 crashed into a house near noon Thursday killing the pilot identified as Robert L. Britton 40 of Lewiston Niagara County The house occupant Fanny Manley 75 escaped unharmed as flames consumed the home Fire crews battled the blaze with about 100 firefighters arriving to find the aircraft burning in the yard and the home fully involved The crash remained under police guard while autopsy and identification efforts proceeded
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Auburn Road
Investigaton
National Transportation Safety Board
Federal Aviation Administration
Robert L. Britton
Ridge Road
Lewiston
Niagara County
Fanny Manley
Mary Davis
Davis
Manley
Ed Hajl
Sherff
Hogan Aviation
Niagara Falls
Gary Volpicelli
Hetair Journal
Petér Méreau
Daily Weather And Local Elevation News
Mild clear conditions with a coal evening forecast and a Saturday high in the mid-S0s. AZ News bulletin lists circulation and contact numbers for circulation and local information lines.
State still pays Gioia seventy-two thousand a year
Former Public Service Commission Chairman Paul Gioia remains on the PSC payroll at 72051 a year to aid his successor. Since Anne Mead became PSC chair January 30 they have met only once to discuss agency business. Mead said their only other talk covered performance awards for staff. Gioia could not be reached for comment.
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Public Service Commission
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PSC
Anne Mead
Gioia
Commission
Mead
Reagan rating rises in polls
The article reports Reagan’s approval rating crossing 50 percent after his Iran Contra speech. ABC News finds 54 percent approve, 43 percent disapprove, up from 44 percent prior. CBS News shows approval rising to 51 percent from 42 percent in under a week, with disapproval near 45 percent. The shift reflects a near two to one positive sentiment.
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Reagan
ABC News
CBS News
Reagan seeks to free 40 million aid to Contras
Reagan moved to release 40 million in military aid for the Nicaraguan Contras, a move that sparks a clash with a Democratic Congress. He certified the final 40 million installment as necessary due to no current prospect of peace, setting the stage for a partisan battle over Central American policy.
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