JAILED WOMAN GETS MORE TIME FOR LARCENY.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: BECHETTA JACKSON Staff writer

SCHENECTADY -- A Sloansville woman serving a 3 1/2- to 7-year prison sentence for a forgery conviction in Albany County was given an additional 4- to 8-year sentence Wednesday in County Court after pleading guilty in July to fourth-degree grand larceny and second-degree forgery.

Rosemary C. Gilbert, 45, of Shun Pike Road, was sentenced by County Court Judge Joseph M. Sise to consecutive terms of 2 to 4 years on each conviction. The sentences are to run concurrently with Gilbert's Albany County sentence, Sise said.

In one indictment Gilbert originally was charged with fourth-degree grand larceny. She admitted …

Research facility for plastics packaging.(Update)

A PLASTICS packaging research facility has been opened at the University of Sheffield. FaraPack Polymers is a joint-venture between the Faraday Packaging Partnership and the Polymer Centre at the university. It is a laboratory--based resource combining packaging expertise and technological 'know-how' to salve technical problems and …

Ice storm in central US grounds airliners, knocks out power and is blamed for 5 deaths

An ice storm slickened roads and sidewalks, grounded hundreds of flights, and cut power to tens of thousands in a swath across the central United States as even colder weather threatened.

The wintry weather was expected to continue through midweek, and ice storm warnings stretched from Texas to Pennsylvania.

"Tomorrow may be even more of a dilemma than today because we're going to get even a little bit more colder," said John Pike, a meteorologist in the Weather Service's office in Norman, Oklahoma, on Sunday.

Six traffic deaths were …

Waukegan raid nets $2.6 million in drugs

Police seized drugs with a street value of $2.65 million in araid on a Waukegan apartment.

Confiscated were 12 pounds of pure cocaine worth $2.3 million;four ounces of black tar heroin valued at $350,000, plus gold jewelryand $9,000 in cash.

Waukegan Police Chief Ronald Hauri said his officers and statepolice investigators went to the apartment at 2625 Glen Flora with aNew York murder warrant Thursday evening. …

Ice causes road crash on Bridlington road.

A car skidded on ice coming out of Pinfold Street and collided with another car.

Police were called and …

CULTURE WARS CREATE AN AMERICA OF INFANTS.(PERSPECTIVE)

Byline: PAUL VALENTINE

A major outcome of the culture wars of the last 50 years can be summarized in a single phrase: the juvenilization of America.

Its impact, fashioned by Madison Avenue, driven by the TV networks, crowned by Hollywood and bought by our social systems from education to religion to the courts, is so pervasive that the good that came out of those same culture wars is now substantively diminished.

The tendency of American adults to revert to or remain in essentially juvenile behavior has grown like spawn in a petri dish of narcissism, instant gratification and reduced attention spans -- the social markers of adolescence -- all carefully cultivated by …

Medical Malpractice Reform Model Pays Off for Victims, Health Care Providers, Public, Says University of Virginia's Jeffrey O'Connell, Co-Creator of Concept.

Byline: University of Virginia

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., Feb. 27 (AScribe Newswire) -- Economic modeling of a medical malpractice reform concept known as "Early Offers" shows that the idea has clear advantages to injured persons, health care providers, and insurance companies, as well as the public.

In an article published this month in the New Mexico Law Review, University of Virginia law professor Jeffrey O'Connell, who is regarded as the father of no-fault insurance laws, as well as economist Jeremy Kidd and attorney Evan Stephenson demonstrate how the Early Offers system gives both sides strong financial incentives to settle and avoid the expenses and uncertainties of a protracted legal battle.

Early Offers could greatly speed the resolution of most …