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- Woman Arrested For Hosing Daughter At Car Wash
ORLANDO, FLA—A 22-year-old woman who was videotaped at a car wash spraying her 2 ½ year old daughter with a high pressure hose has been charged with felony child abuse. Niurka Ramirez who said that she was trying to discipline her daughter because she was having a temper tantrum turned herself into police Thursday after the [...]
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:33:51 +0000 - E-Mail Addresses Changed
As part of an ongoing criminal investigation into identity theft, internet harassment and misappropriation being engaged in by an individual who has published the business and personal email addresses of The North Country Gazette and its publisher on the internet, resulting in an invasion of privacy, illegal use of name and inviting people to harass the NCG [...]
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:04:47 +0000 - Thousands Without Power As Adirondacks Dry Out
Over 14,600 National Grid customers remained without electricity in Warren and Essex Counties at 2 p.m. Sunday with no estimated time of restoration given. Some of those customers have been without power since Saturday evening as a result of the wind, rain, snow and ice storm that blasted the area throughout Saturday and into Sunday morning, [...]
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 18:36:53 +0000 - State of Emergency In Hague
HAGUE—Daniel Belden, town supervisor, has declared a state of emergency in the Town of Hague due to numerous trees and power lines down blocking numerous roads in the town. It is requested that all unnecessary travel be restricted. Anyone in need of emergency shelter can go to the Silver Bay Association on Silver Bay Road where [...]
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:46:13 +0000 - Attorney Suspended For Abandoning Practice
MONROE—J. Bennett Farrell, former attorney for the Village of Monroe in Orange County, has been suspended from practicing law by the Appellate Division, Second Department, on the request of the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judicial District. Farrell inexplicably left town last year, leaving behind confidential case files and an office which had been partially dismantled. The [...]
Sun, 09 Mar 2008 03:18:25 +0000 - Court System’s Inspector General Unveils Website
NEW YORK—The Office of the Inspector General of the state Unified Court System has unveiled a new website and is offering online complaint forms. The office is responsible for the investigation and elimination of infractions of disciplinary standards, criminal activities, conflicts of interest, misconduct, misfeasance and incompetence on the part of non-judicial employees of the [...]
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:47:32 +0000 - Ex-Assemblyman, Labor Leader Admits Racketeering
NEW YORK—Brian M. McLaughlin, a former New York State Assemblyman and labor leader pleaded guilty Friday to a federal racketeering charge and admitted making false statements in a loan application to a federally-insured financial institution. McLaughlin, 55, entered his plea before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Sullivan. McLaughlin functioned as the highest ranking official of the [...]
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 23:18:54 +0000 - North Country Innudated With Rain, Now Wind Advisory
The North Country has been assailed with rain, flooding, sleet, ice and snow courtesy of the latest winter storm which began Friday night. Now the National Weather Service in Albany has issued a wind advisory which is in effect from midnight EST tonight to 5 p.m. EDT Sunday for all of east central New York and [...]
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 22:15:56 +0000 - Schiavo, TerriPAC FEC Inquiry Ongoing
By June Maxam CLEARWATER, FLA—Colorado Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave (CO/4 dodged the bullet of the Federal Election Commission. So far, Michael Schiavo, one of America’s most infamous husbands, is still under fire. Two years ago, when Schiavo first registered TerriPAC, a political action committee named after his disabled wife who he had killed by judicial homicide after his attempts [...]
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 21:08:05 +0000 - Florida AG Attacking Healthcare Fraud, Abuse
TALLAHASSEE, FL – The Florida Attorney General’s office has launched a statewide initiative to educate citizens and healthcare providers about the dangers and costs of Medicaid and other healthcare-related fraud. Intended to foster a spirit of cooperation and raise awareness of how to report and avoid fraud and abuse, the presentations will be given by [...]
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:55:37 +0000 - Baumgartner Appeals Court Okays Criminalizing Free Speech
OTTAWA COUNTY, OHIO—In a chilling, but not unexpected decision, the Sixth District Court of Appeals has upheld the 2006 criminal contempt conviction of former Oak Harbor attorney Elsebeth Baumgartner, lending troubling implications for the public’s right to criticize public officials, especially the judiciary. The Sixth District essentially insulated thin-skinned and egotistical judges such as retired visiting [...]
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 17:37:29 +0000 - Court: Judge Acted Wrongly, Shrouded In Judicial Immunity
CLEVELAND, OHIO—The Supreme Court of Ohio ruled this week that a judge who had personal and subject matter jurisdiction over a case, but who incorrectly proceeded to conduct a hearing and issue a final order despite notice that a party had applied to remove the case to federal court, committed reversible error but did not [...]
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:55:56 +0000 - Pakistani Student Convicted Of Hate Crime
QUEENS—An 18-year-old Pakistani student at Newtown High School in Elmhurst, Queens, was convicted of felony hate crime charges after a jury trial stemming from an incident at the school in which a 15-year-old Sikh student was made to remove his dastar (turban) and had his hair cut. The dastar is a traditional Sikh headdress and [...]
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:16:54 +0000 - Set Clocks Ahead, Check Batteries In Smoke Alarms
Don’t forget to set your clocks ahead before you go to bed Saturday night. And don’t forget to change the batteries in your smoke alarms. Daylight Saving Time begins each year at 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March in most of the United States and its territories. Clocks must be moved ahead one [...]
Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:05:26 +0000 - Spitzer Would Raise Gas Tax, Proposes Car Tax
ALBANY—The New York State Senate Majority has announced it will oppose a budget scheme advanced by Governor Spitzer that would eliminate the sales tax cap on gasoline and result in higher prices at the pump for every New York driver. Under the proposal, the Governor would do away with the gas tax cap enacted in 2006 [...]
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