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Special prosecutor sought to probe LI crime lab


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:50 p.m.

MINEOLA, N.Y. — A New York district attorney is seeking a special prosecutor to investigate possible wrongdoing at a now-closed crime lab. Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice says she will ask court approval to appoint Eric Dinallo to lead an investigation. Dinallo is the former state insurance superintendent. The ...

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G.O.P. Senators in Wisconsin Say They Will Resume Work


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:22 p.m.
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The move seemed intended to increase the discomfort of the Democratic state senators who have fled the state as a way of barring a vote on union legislation ...

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Khadafy to announce major reforms shortly


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 3:08 p.m.

TRIPOLI, Libya -- Embattled Libyan leader Col. Moammar Khadafywill make a speech soon in which he will announce "grand reforms," Al Arabiya reported, citing Libyan state television.A ticker on state TV said that "Moamar Khadafywill address the people presently."The reforms include a plan to devolve power to local ...

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Golisano pushes to end Electoral College


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 2:37 p.m.

Billionaire businessm and and soon-to-be-former owner of the Buffalo Sabres is turning his attention to get states to move to a popular vote system for electing a president ...

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Admissions Campus Tour and Information Session (a.m.)


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.

Time: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m ... Location: Moot Hall 110 ... Our President’s Week Visits consist of an informational session and a campus tour. The visitations include an overview of the college, a brief question and answer session with a member of the Admissions staff, and a campus tour with one of our student ambassadors. Space is limited. Reservations are required and can be made by contacting (716) 878-4017 or admissions@buffalostate.edu ...

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Admissions Campus Tour and Information Session (p.m.)


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 1:00 p.m.

Time: 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m ... Location: Moot Hall 110 ... Our President’s Week Visits consist of an informational session and a campus tour. The visitations include an overview of the college, a brief question and answer session with a member of the Admissions staff, and a campus tour with one of our student ambassadors. Space is limited. Reservations are required and can be made by contacting (716) 878-4017 or admissions@buffalostate.edu ...

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Anna's comrade: My hubby was the perfect spy


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 9:41 a.m.

Vicky Pelaez, who was deported to Russia as part of last year's spy swap, insists she never traded in state secrets ... "I never, ever was a spy, not for anyone, not for any nation, and not for any political party," she said ... But her husband, Mikhail Vasenkov, whom she ...

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$100M Medicaid marketing furor


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 7:04 a.m.

New York state is paying health insurers $100 million a year to market Medicaid to the state's low-income and poor -- a hefty subsidy that is often misused, an explosive state study suggests ... The Health Department analysis found that instead of using those government funds to enroll new Medicaid ...

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Uzbekistan TV raps rock


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 6:09 a.m.

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan -- Uzbekistan's state television issued yesterday a denunciation of rock and rap music as a Western liberal excess ... A documentary called "Melody and Calamity" on Uzbekistan's second main channel, raised alarm over the "pernicious influence of Western rock and rap music approaching as dark clouds over ...

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Badgered state


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Published Feb. 22, 2011 at 5:59 a.m.

Drum-banging, sign-waving, whistle-blowing protesters clogged Wisconsin's state Capitol building for a seventh straight day yesterday, as Republican Gov. Scott Walker defiantly refused to back off his vow to strip public workers of their collective-bargaining rights as part of his controversial plan to repair the state's budget ... With the ...

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