Governor Eliot Spitzer met privately today in Westchester with the family of the Mount Vernon police officer who was shot dead last week by Westchester county police.

Bell Family Finds Echoes In Mount Vernon Officer’s Death
The parents of an unarmed man killed by police on his wedding day say they empathize with the relatives of an off-duty Mount Vernon police officer shot dead by other officers last week.

The Jewish Cowboy (Evening Music: Thursday, 31 January 2008)
Many people used to ask Aaron Copland how “a nice Jewish kid from Brooklyn” grew up to canonize the sound of American cowboy music. Copland himself enjoyed pointing out a family connection, explaining that his grandfather used to run a store in Dallas — where one of his early employees was Frank James (brother of Jesse, that is). We hear Copland’s first foray into the genre with his ballet about another infamous wild west individual, “Billy the Kid.”Browse Aaron Copland CDs at Amazon.comDownload at I-Tunes

Bloomberg ‘Renames’ Brady’s Bar On UES As Manning’s Bar
new york Mayor Michael Bloomberg is heading west to the Super Bowl this weekend to cheer for the new york Giants.

Panel Issuing Plan To Charge Drivers Entering Manhattan
The commission in charge of creating a congestion pricing plan has approved its final recommendations — and it will still charge cars $8 to enter the most traffic-choked parts of Manhattan.

Write An Article-A-Day, The Easy Way!
Lachlan Murdoch and the gambling magnate James D. Packer have made an offer of 3.3 billion Australian dollars ($2.9 billion) to buy Consolidated Media Holdings. Writers Drop Demand and a Picket Plan Striking writers dropped their demand for extended jurisdiction over reality and animation work and said they won t picket the […]

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