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A.M. Roundup - Times Union Blogs
Good morning, folks. Here are today’s stories. Hundreds of programs are sharing the pain of $427 million in cuts from this year’s budget as Gov. David Paterson and legislative leaders congratulated themselves on the effort. Including hospitals

Secret Millionaire a hit - The Sun
Channel 4’s slow-burning reality show got record ratings for last night’s episode. The show invites millionaires to go undercover in deprived areas – then shames then into sharing some of the spoils of their success. Last night’s episode

Police: Millionaire NJ couple in LI murder-suicide - Newsday
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - A millionaire New Jersey husband and wife were found shot in their East Hampton summer home, and Suffolk County authorities are investigating it as a murder-suicide. Police said Lester Stockel, founder of a credit card-receipt

News Of The Day - New York Daily News
The FDNY’s internal review of the fatal Deutsche Bank building fire, which will be formally released today, reveals a chain of errors and neglect with plently of blame to go around . Sen. Joe Biden, who insists he’s not Obama’s VP pick, spent much of

Failing schools debate: Has Ed Balls picked the wrong targets? - Guardian Unlimited
Bill Greenshields, the president of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), weighed in to the failing schools debate today, saying Ed Balls should be ashamed. In a comment piece for EducationGuardian.co.uk, Greenshields says the “national challenge

Cops: Millionaire, wife in East Hampton murder-suicide - Newsday
Lester Stockel, left, and Georgiana Stockel watch Navy ships come in during Fleet Week in Florida during May of 2006. The couple died in a murder-suicide in East Hampton Monday. ( South Florida Sun-Sentinel ) A millionaire financial entrepreneur shot

The wally without the brolly? Fabio Capello’s honeymoon period is over - Times Online
When Fabio Capello agreed to become England manager last December, he may not have foreseen his honeymoon period ending quite so swiftly or in such ignominious circumstances. The Italian’s England team were booed from the field following their 2-2

THE STOW: Chandlers accused of betrayl at SOS march - Epping Forest Guardian
ACCUSATIONS of betrayal and deception were levelled at Walthamstow Stadium’s Chandler family at a Save our Stow protest march. The Chandlers were accused of putting profit before people as stonyfaced protestors heard they had made a pre-sale

Failing schools debate: Has Ed Balls picked the wrong targets? - Guardian Unlimited
Bill Greenshields, the president of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), weighed in to the failing schools debate today, saying Ed Balls should be ashamed. In a comment piece for EducationGuardian.co.uk, Greenshields says the “national challenge

Verona millionaire shoots wife, self - Newark Star-Ledger
A Verona couple is dead this morning after the husband - millionaire financial entrepreneur Lester Stockel - shot his wife before turning the gun on himself in their sprawling East Hampton summer estate, according to a report in Newsday . Lester and

Millionaire NJ Couple In Hamptons Murder-Suicide - CBS 2
EAST HAMPTON (AP) ? A millionaire New Jersey husband and wife were found shot in their East Hampton summer home, and Suffolk County authorities are investigating it as a murder-suicide. Police said Lester Stockel, founder of a credit card-receipt

Obama Attacks McCain’s Elitist Millionaire Mindset - Huffingtonpost.com
There’s an old saying in American politics — elections are not decided by the producer price index . The Obama campaign is jumping on the recent jump in the index, though, with a statement slamming the Bush-McCain economic agenda and, more

GUY BEATS PUB PROBE - Daily Express
Madonna and Guy Ritchie have fought off claims of price-fixing at their London watering hole. The multi-millionaire couple, who part-own The Punchbowl in upmarket Mayfair, deny it is charging regulars and non-regulars different prices. Speaking on

Circuit Breaker, Millionaire’s Tax - No Cap - Pass Assembly - New York Daily News
As expected, the Democrat-controlled Assembly approved its answer to Gov. David Paterson’s property tax cap bill, which was a combination circuit breaker and millionaire’s tax . The vote was 118-24, which means about half of the Assembly Republicans

Police: Millionaire NJ couple in LI murder-suicide - Newsday
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - A millionaire New Jersey husband and wife were found shot in their East Hampton summer home, and Suffolk County authorities are investigating it as a murder-suicide. Police said Lester Stockel, founder of a credit card-receipt

Cops: Millionaire Kills Wife, Self in Hamptons - 1010Wins
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) — A millionaire New Jersey husband and wife were found shot in their East Hampton summer home, and Suffolk County authorities are investigating it as a murder-suicide. Police said Lester Stockel, founder of a credit card

Cops: Millionaire, wife in East Hampton murder-suicide - Newsday
Lester Stockel, left, and Georgiana Stockel watch Navy ships come in during Fleet Week in Florida during May of 2006. The couple died in a murder-suicide in East Hampton Monday. ( South Florida Sun-Sentinel ) A millionaire financial entrepreneur shot

Annual Bykofsky fete proves it: Pols are laughable - Philadelphia Daily News
When the Daily News ‘ Stu Bykofsky held his first Candidates’ Comedy Night to raise money for the Variety Club children’s charity in 1991, the event was centered around a long-forgotten obscure mayoral campaign - his own. Some 17 years - and now some

Hospital death rates for key conditions unveiled - CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — If you or a loved one develops pneumonia or has a heart attack and is taken to a hospital, do you know what the chances are of getting out alive? Hospital death rates are difficult to pin down because some see sicker patient

Cash: Political use of father’s name “appalling” - Reuters
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Rosanne Cash is tired of people using her late father’s name to further their own political agendas. The singer-songwriter released a statement on her Web site after country star John Rich invoked the name of Johnny Cash at a

Netlets for Wednesday, Aug. 20 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Want my vote? Ask me to grow up and make some tough decisions. From the president on down, political leaders continue to entice us with their shortsighted solutions to a deepening, unremitting and unforgiving problem: our addiction to oil. Most of us

Doctors fighting about money: Now that’s rich - Salon
I am a young physician (intern) who is in a mountain of educational debt from undergrad and medical school. This is for several reasons: 1) I was fortunate enough to get into great private schools for both and preferred them over my state schools. 2

Campus groups activate inner–activist - Independent Florida Alligator
Oh, to be young again, when I thought homework was for pansies, a fake ID was golden, withdrawing from a class would never come back to haunt me and hangovers only lasted an hour, if at all. Just as I did, all you incoming freshmen will have ample

This fall’s hot color? Mustard yellow - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Mustard yellow may be just the color to add zip to an otherwise bland fall wardrobe. Whether it’s the shade of a sweet honey mustard, a tangy Dijon or a hot wasabi, designers and retailers are counting on consumers to crave the condiment this fall

11 dead as twin car bombings target hotel, military barracks in - Newsday
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) _ Twin car bombs rocked a hotel and military headquarters in Algeria, killing 12 people Wednesday, a day after a suicide bombing nearby killed 43. The new bombings were the sixth major terrorist action this month in the North

41% of Scots back the break-up of the union - Sunday Herald
INDEPENDENCE HAS taken a dramatic lead in a new opinion poll on Scotland’s constitutional future. An exclusive TNS System Three poll has found that 41% of Scots want the SNP government to negotiate an independence settlement, compared to 40% who are

Obama Attacks McCain’s Elitist Millionaire Mindset - Huffingtonpost.com
There’s an old saying in American politics — elections are not decided by the producer price index . The Obama campaign is jumping on the recent jump in the index, though, with a statement slamming the Bush-McCain economic agenda and, more

Cindy McCain’s ‘only child’ claim angers half-siblings - New York Daily News
WASHINGTON - Cindy McCain ’s claim to being the “only child” of Arizona beer baron Jim Hensley touched off a family feud Wednesday with a suddenly angry half-sister who was short-changed in the will. “I’m upset, I’m angry, it makes me feel like a

This fall’s hot color? Mustard yellow - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Mustard yellow may be just the color to add zip to an otherwise bland fall wardrobe. Whether it’s the shade of a sweet honey mustard, a tangy Dijon or a hot wasabi, designers and retailers are counting on consumers to crave the condiment this fall

11 dead as twin car bombings target hotel, military barracks in - Newsday
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) _ Twin car bombs rocked a hotel and military headquarters in Algeria, killing 12 people Wednesday, a day after a suicide bombing nearby killed 43. The new bombings were the sixth major terrorist action this month in the North

Netlets for Wednesday, Aug. 20 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Want my vote? Ask me to grow up and make some tough decisions. From the president on down, political leaders continue to entice us with their shortsighted solutions to a deepening, unremitting and unforgiving problem: our addiction to oil. Most of us

Police: Millionaire NJ couple in LI murder-suicide - Newsday
EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. - A millionaire New Jersey husband and wife were found shot in their East Hampton summer home, and Suffolk County authorities are investigating it as a murder-suicide. Police said Lester Stockel, founder of a credit card-receipt

My housing bust redemption - Christian Science Monitor
Vista, Calif. - It was the spring of 2005 and the housing market was in a frenzy. Against my better instincts, I let my realtor convince me to join the fray. Although that decision cost me much of my life savings, it taught me a lesson that years of

Cops: Millionaire, wife in East Hampton murder-suicide - Newsday
Lester Stockel, left, and Georgiana Stockel watch Navy ships come in during Fleet Week in Florida during May of 2006. The couple died in a murder-suicide in East Hampton Monday. ( South Florida Sun-Sentinel ) A millionaire financial entrepreneur shot

HAMPTONS MILLIONAIRE MURDER - New York Post
A elderly East Hampton man shot his wife in the head today and then turned the gun on himself on a street of million-dollar homes, police said. After getting 911 calls at 5:52 a.m., cops broke open the door of the home on Cedar Trail Road and found

This fall’s hot color? Mustard yellow - Seattle Post Intelligencer
Mustard yellow may be just the color to add zip to an otherwise bland fall wardrobe. Whether it’s the shade of a sweet honey mustard, a tangy Dijon or a hot wasabi, designers and retailers are counting on consumers to crave the condiment this fall

Cash: Political use of father’s name “appalling” - Reuters
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Rosanne Cash is tired of people using her late father’s name to further their own political agendas. The singer-songwriter released a statement on her Web site after country star John Rich invoked the name of Johnny Cash at a

Hospital death rates for key conditions unveiled - CNN
ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) — If you or a loved one develops pneumonia or has a heart attack and is taken to a hospital, do you know what the chances are of getting out alive? Hospital death rates are difficult to pin down because some see sicker patient

Netlets for Wednesday, Aug. 20 - Minneapolis Star Tribune
Want my vote? Ask me to grow up and make some tough decisions. From the president on down, political leaders continue to entice us with their shortsighted solutions to a deepening, unremitting and unforgiving problem: our addiction to oil. Most of us

Population growing fastest in world’s poorest countries - Owen Sound Sun Times
The world’s poorest countries have one thing in ever greater abundance — people. “Nearly all of world population growth is now concentrated in the world’s poorer countries,” said Bill Butz, president of the Population Reference Bureau, an

Bolivia: Awakening a ‘mountain that eats men’ - Guardian Unlimited
Miners push and haul wagons of rocks dug manually from a cooperative mine in Cerro Rico mountain in Bolivia. The rocks contain tin, zinc and silver. Photograph: Julie Plasencia/AP It was called the “mountain that eats men”, and from its slopes you

Mounting Terror in Algeria - Time
A rescuer clears the site of a suicide bomb attack attack in Issers, east of Algiers. The deadliest in a recent spate of terror attacks in Algeria killed at least 43 people and injured another 38 Tuesday, when a suicide bomber detonated a car packed

Another clue in Bill Gates’ energy mystery? - Seattle Post Intelligencer Blogs
Energy issues seem to be top of mind for Bill Gates in the initial months following his departure from daily life at Microsoft. The big question: Is he piecing together some larger idea, or just learning more about a subject that affects all his

Cash: Political use of father’s name “appalling” - Reuters
NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Rosanne Cash is tired of people using her late father’s name to further their own political agendas. The singer-songwriter released a statement on her Web site after country star John Rich invoked the name of Johnny Cash at a