By David B. Caruso
- ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated: 07/19/08 6:52 AM
NEW YORK — Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow — like 1,130 calories for a Big Mac, medium fries and a medium soda.
ALBANY (AP) — A former computer programmer for the state Health Department faces almost five years in federal prison after admitting he used state and personal computers to search the Internet for images of children having sex.
NEW YORK (AP) — A police officer fatally shot a knife-wielding man with a history of mental problems on Manhattan’s Upper East Side after the man ignored orders to drop the weapon, police said Friday.
FULTON (AP) — State health officials have taken control of a Central New York nursing home following allegations of abuse and neglect, and residents are being moved to other facilities.
POUGHKEEPSIE (AP) — The Dutchess County health commissioner has reported an outbreak of a gastrointestinal virus that has sickened more than 200 people.
By Tom Precious
- NEWS ALBANY BUREAU Updated: 07/18/08 8:03 AM
NEW YORK— Robert G. Wilmers went to his first official board meeting Thursday as the state’s new economic development czar with a singular mission: to improve the state’s economy, particularly ailing upstate.
SYRACUSE — A 13th person has come down with Legionnaires’ disease, and health officials say the bacterium that causes the deadly respiratory ailment has been found at a second location, a Syracuse nursing home.
ALBANY (AP) — A former top aide to Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer on Thursday accused New York’s Public Integrity Commission of inappropriately contacting the disgraced governor’s inner circle during an investigation into a political scandal.
ALBANY (AP) — A report released Thursday shows that tax collections during the first three months of New York State’s budget year fell $195 million short of projections while overall receipts were higher.
By Sara Kugler
- ASSOCIATED PRESS Updated: 07/18/08 6:41 AM
NEW YORK — Former President Bill Clinton said Thursday he is eager to campaign for Barack Obama whenever the Democrat needs him, but has not given any thought to whether he wants to speak at the party convention in Denver.
ROCHESTER (AP) — A businessman is suing a brother of the United Arab Emirates’ ruler in federal court for assaulting him with a belt in a luxury hotel bar in Switzerland.
ROCHESTER (AP) — A Rhode Island-bound airliner with 71 people on board made an emergency landing in Rochester because of smoke in the cockpit produced by a faulty air-conditioning unit.
By Tom Precious
- NEWS ALBANY BUREAU Updated: 07/17/08 6:37 AM
ALBANY — They may be just narrowly holding onto their majority, but Republicans in the State Senate are still showing they can out-muscle Democratic senators when it comes to raising money, especially from special interests with business before Albany.
