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Court case continued against former N.C. State coach Lowe on tax charges
RALEIGH?The case against former NC State men's basketball coach Sidney Lowe has been continued.
Lowe was scheduled in court Wednesday on tax evasion charges. He was arrested in February, accused of failing to pay state income tax in 2009, 2010, and 2011.
Lowe did not appear in court Wednesday, instead his attorney was there to represent him. He pushed for the delay saying he needs more time to prepare tax documents.
The former head coach was a point guard on the Wolfpack's 1983 national title team and began his term as head coach in 2006. He is currently an assistant coach for the Utah Jazz.
Lowe is scheduled to appear in court again in September.
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Sunday, July 28, 2013
Boats ply NY river in search for missing best man
Rescue workers on a boat search the Hudson River south of the Tappan Zee Bridge for two people who are believed to have fallen into the water during a boat crash in Piermont, N.Y. on Saturday, July 27, 2013. Two people are missing and four others are injured after their boat struck a barge under the bridge, according to the Coast Guard. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Rescue workers on a boat search the Hudson River south of the Tappan Zee Bridge for two people who are believed to have fallen into the water during a boat crash in Piermont, N.Y. on Saturday, July 27, 2013. Two people are missing and four others are injured after their boat struck a barge under the bridge, according to the Coast Guard. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Rescue workers on a boat search the Hudson River south of the Tappan Zee Bridge for two people who are believed to have fallen into the water during a boat crash in Piermont, N.Y. on Saturday, July 27, 2013. Two people are missing and four others are injured after their boat struck a barge under the bridge, according to the Coast Guard. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
This photo provided on Sunday, July 28, 2013, by the Rockland County Sheriff's Office shows Jojo John. John, who was operating a boat that crashed Friday on the Hudson River, was charged Saturday with vehicular manslaughter and three counts of vehicular assault from a hospital bed where he was recovering from his injuries in the crash. (AP Photo/Rockland County Sheriff's Office)
Rescue workers on boats search near a construction barge on the Hudson River in Piermont, N.Y. on Saturday, July 27, 2013, south of the Tappan Zee Bridge for two people who are believed to have fallen into the water during a boat crash. Two people are missing and four others are injured after their boat struck the barge, center, according to the Coast Guard. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
Rescue workers on boats search near a construction barge, left, on the Hudson River in Piermont, N.Y. on Saturday, July 27, 2013, south of the Tappan Zee Bridge after two people fell into the water during a boat crash. Two are missing and four others injured after their boat struck the barge according to the Coast Guard. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)
PIERMONT, N.Y. (AP) ? Search boats plied the Hudson River on Sunday for any sign of the planned best man in a wedding who fell into the water after a speedboat carrying members of a bridal party crashed near the Tappan Zee Bridge.
As many as dozen vessels were set to scour the water for 30-year-old Mark Lennon, who is presumed dead, authorities said. A woman's body found Saturday matches the description of bride-to-be Lindsey Stewart, who was thrown into the river with Lennon after their boat crashed into a construction barge Friday night.
Four other friends, including Stewart's fiance, Brian Bond, and the boat operator, Jojo John, were hurt and hospitalized.
John, 35, of Nyack, was charged Saturday with vehicular manslaughter and three counts of vehicular assault from a hospital bed, where he was recovering from his injuries in the crash, said William Barbera, chief of the Rockland County Sheriff's Office. Authorities say they suspect John was intoxicated at the time of the crash, but they are awaiting results of blood tests.
Attempts to reach John's family weren't immediately successful and it wasn't clear if he had an attorney.
Sheryl Palacio, a high school biology teacher from Valley Cottage, went to the pier Sunday with her two young sons and father and said she knows Bond, an art teacher, and John.
"I've known Brian my whole life," she said. "He's an outstanding teacher, a wonderful, kind, respectful man. Now his best friend is missing and his other best friend is charged with manslaughter."
Palacio said John worked as a banker at a local Chase branch and opened accounts for her two boys.
"I just want to make sure everyone knows he was a good man, happy and loving," she said. "He was always telling me about his nieces and nephews."
Palacio's father, Mitchell Turk, of Orangeburg, said he visited with Bond's mother, Jean, at her home in Pearl River on Sunday.
"It's sad and quiet there, long faces. They're trying to carry on, doing as well as can be expected," Turk said.
The group left the village of Piermont for a short trip aboard the 21-foot Stingray across the river to Tarrytown, about 30 miles north of New York City, authorities said.
The boat struck a barge carrying materials for the construction of a replacement for the Tappan Zee Bridge, authorities said. Barbera said the barge was equipped with lights, but it was still difficult to see on the water late at night.
Stewart, of Piermont, worked for an insurance company. She and Bond were to be married at the Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Pearl River, with a reception at a vineyard in Hillburn, her stepfather, Walter Kosik, said.
The couple had known each other for years and used to go to church together, he said.
"They have been friends the whole time, and they fell in love about 3 ? years ago," Kosik said.
The New York State Thruway Authority, which is overseeing the bridge project, said it was reviewing safety procedures. It said the lighting on the barges appeared to be functioning normally.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims and their families during this difficult time," the authority said in a statement.
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Financier with GOP ties gets $5M to move firm to Greenwich
A $2 billion money-lending enterprise headed by a major benefactor of the Connecticut GOP is moving its headquarters from out of state to Greenwich, lured by $5 million in economic incentives approved by the administration of Democratic Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.
Malloy's office announced the deal Friday between the state and Fifth Street Finance Corp., a Nasdaq-traded company based in White Plains, N.Y., employing about 50 people there. Terms of the deal call for the firm to add an additional 46 positions to its Greenwich workforce over the next decade.
The firm is run by Leonard Tannenbaum, whose state and federal filings show he gave $15,000 to the state Republican Party in March of this year, earning him a seat on the dais at the party's biggest fundraiser of the year, where GOP leaders assailed Malloy.
Republicans have been highly critical of the economic incentives awarded by Malloy's administration to big business, questioning the return on investment and saying that the state should lower taxes and fix the regulatory climate instead.
"If the governor uses these grants to attract businesses that have longterm staying power and peripheral benefits, I think it's good," Tannenbaum told Hearst Connecticut Newspapers.
"The governor, for us, is going to make far more revenue for the state of Connecticut than the amount of money that he's giving us by many, many multiples."
Records also show that Tannenbaum, 41, a Greenwich resident who last year started his own Keeping America Competitive bipartisan political action committee, donated $1,000 to the campaign of Malloy's 2010 adversary Tom Foley.
"When it comes to something as important as job creation, politics never enters the governor's mind," said Andrew Doba, a spokesman for Malloy. "He is concerned with one thing -- creating good paying jobs with good benefits for Connecticut residents."
Tannenbaum's goal is to reach 100 employees in Greenwich within three years, surpassing the benchmarks stipulated by the state.
"We'll easily be able to hit those targets," Tannenbaum said.
James Velgot, the firm's executive director of marketing and brand management, echoed Tannenbaum.
"This company of ours is on quite a trajectory," Velgot said. --Len really believes in Connecticut and wants to help create jobs."
In addition to Connecticut, Tannenbaum said New York and Florida were competing for his business, which lends money to private equity companies.
"My business is portable," Tannenbaum said. "We could actually do our business out of Miami, too. My personal view was that Connecticut was the place to go."
Tannenbaum is in the process of trying to buy the former corporate headquarters of Nestle Waters North America at 777 W. Putnam Ave. to facilitate the move, a transaction that is expected to cost some $39 million.
Fifth Street Finance will receive a 10-year $4 million loan from the state Department of Economic and Community Development to build out 44,000 square feet of space at the site, $3 million of which is forgivable.
The state sweetened the deal with a $500,000 grant for job training and a $500,000 grant to install a fuel cell, wind or solar-powered energy system. The deal is binding for 10 years.
"So if I leave within 10 years, you just give back the money," Tannenbaum said.
State Sen. L. Scott Frantz, R-36th District, who represents Greenwich and parts of Stamford and New Canaan, embraced the deal in a statement issued by the governor's office.
"Connecticut has long been a world leader in finance and investment management," Frantz said.
"We must focus on helping this important segment of our economy remain and grow in our own state."
Tannenbaum expressed his support for Malloy's efforts to attract companies in the biotech sector to Connecticut with economic incentives.
At the same time, he questioned the wisdom of giving a $20 million forgivable loan to Swiss financial services giant UBS in 2011 to maintain a presence in Stamford and at least 2,000 employees in the state until 20 17.
UBS previously had 3,500 employees on its payroll in Connecticut, however.
"I think a mistake he potentially made was UBS," Tannenbaum said of Malloy. "So if their strategic direction is to leave the state, does that make sense?"
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Staff Writer Olivia Just contributed to this report.
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Saturday, July 27, 2013
Poll: Rand Paul Tops List of 2016 GOP Presidential Hopefuls
Sen. Rand Paul has surged into the lead of a wide field of possible 2016 GOP presidential hopefuls, according to a new poll, while Sen. Marco Rubio has dropped from first place to sixth.
According to the Public Policy Polling survey conducted July 19-21, the junior senator from Kentucky leads every other candidate with 16 percent support, his highest since the April survey.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan are all at 13 percent, in the survey of 800 registered voters, while Texas Rep. Ted Cruz comes in at 12 percent.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, once at the top of the list, now has only 10 percent support, a significant decrease from the 21 percent support he had in the April poll.
"The trend in the Republican primary field is pretty clear," said Dean Debnam, president of Public Policy Polling. "Rand Paul and Ted Cruz are up and Marco Rubio is down."
In the general election, the poll found that while former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is in the lead against every potential GOP candidate, those leads are narrowing.
In a match-up with Christie, her lead is within the margin of error, with Clinton at 43 percent and Christie at 42 percent.
Ryan, meanwhile, would also come in a close second against Clinton. Forty-six percent of respondents would support Clinton while 44 percent would go for Ryan. Clinton also narrowly leads Bush, 46 percent to 44 percent.
The poll also found that in a Democratic presidential primary, Clinton is the clear front-runner with 52 percent support compared to 12 percent who would back Vice President Joe Biden, though Biden would have a 21 percent lead over every other potential candidate if Clinton didn't run.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
Hopes of family reunification dashed in immigration reform debate
By Saundra Amrhein
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) - Epifania Rojas' family broke apart in stages. At age 12, she learned how to live without her father. At 16, she is learning how to live without her mother.
The disintegration of Rojas' family began four years ago when she, her parents and four U.S.-born siblings became one of many thousands of families separated by immigration regulations or record-level deportations.
Hopes of reunification for many families swelled this summer with the passage of a sweeping immigration reform bill in the U.S. Senate, only to be dashed by subsequent efforts to kill the bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, where members are focused instead on piecemeal bills heavy on enforcement and more spending on border security.
"It has been an emotional roller coaster," said Cheryl Little, executive director of the Miami-based advocacy group Americans for Immigrant Justice.
U.S. immigration policy has long favored families, though conservative advocates of reform, including former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, argue that the number of relatives who are allowed to immigrate to be reunited with family members is too high.
Family-based immigration places a strain on the economy because many who are allowed entry are not of working age and "typically do not produce economic benefits," Bush wrote in his recent book "Immigration Wars."
Expectations among separated immigrant families and advocates ran high after the Senate passed its version of a comprehensive immigration bill on June 27. The bill, were it to become law, would offer a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants in the United States while also bolstering spending on border security.
Although Little and other advocates for immigrant families did not approve of provisions that would end sibling sponsorship by U.S. citizens and permanent residents, they applauded other measures that would wipe out a backlog for millions of people waiting years on family-based petitions.
They also celebrated another provision that could make it easier for U.S. citizens and permanent residents to petition for parents, children or spouses who have been deported or blocked from returning to the United States.
"It would be wonderful to see this issue addressed in a humane way," Little said. "We've seen countless wonderful families torn apart."
'THESE KIDS HAVE PARENTS'
Republican House leaders have voiced willingness to support legislation to help undocumented immigrants who were brought to the country as children - known as "Dreamers" - but not their parents.
The issue was debated Tuesday during a House judiciary subcommittee hearing where key Republicans suggested they would support an exception for the children.
"They surely don't share the culpability of their parents," House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte said at the hearing. "I do not believe that parents who made the decision to illegally enter the U.S. while forcing their children to join them should be afforded the same treatment as these kids."
Dreamers have been vocal about their rejection of such a proposal that would benefit them, but not their mothers and fathers. The idea also chafed at Little.
"These kids have parents," she said. "To suggest that these children are entitled to a break but we're not going to do anything to keep these families together - it's very disingenuous ... They continue to suffer until that family is made whole."
There are no figures on the exact number of families separated by immigration enforcement. However, among the unprecedented number of deportations that have occurred during the Obama administration - 1.5 million people in his first term - almost 205,000 immigrants deported from July 2010 to the end of September 2012 were parents of U.S.-citizen children, according to official statistics.
Many immigrant families have been separated by other ways, including regulations that blocked immigrants from returning to the United States if they had been in the country illegally for more than a short duration.
In 2009, eight years after her father petitioned as a permanent resident for green cards for Rojas and her mother, they were summoned to a U.S. Consulate office in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, for an appointment. Once there, Rojas was told she could not return with her father and four U.S.-born younger siblings. Her mother was barred from coming back for 10 years.
Rojas tried to calm her weeping siblings. "I told them maybe in a few days or weeks we'll be together again," she said.
Her father, Josefino Rojas, returned to work in the United States with one of Epifania's younger sisters, while his wife took the rest back to her birthplace near Oaxaca.
Epifania was later able to obtain a green card, and she and three of her siblings now live with their father. Between schoolwork, Epifania helps her father in the fields as they migrate between Florida's strawberry fields and Midwest vegetable crops.
Josefino Rojas said he saves what he can after gasoline, rent and food to send to Mexico or to help pay for the next trip there to see his wife and their 5-year-old daughter, also a U.S. citizen.
For some families under the financial and emotional strain of separation, reform may be too late.
This spring, when Juan Aquino graduated with honors from a high school east of Tampa, Florida, one person was missing: his father.
Deported three years ago, Aquino's father pleaded in phone calls with his mother to bring the family to Mexico. Then, last year, giving up on reuniting with his family, he broke the news that he had met another woman in Mexico.
Juan, 18, now enrolled in college courses and active in marches for immigration reform, hopes his mother can gain legal status and that other families won't be split apart. But he no longer dreams of reuniting with his father.
"I don't want to see him anymore," Juan said.
(Editing by David Adams and Douglas Royalty)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/hopes-family-reunification-dashed-immigration-reform-debate-205118084.html
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