Archive for January, 2010
Beat LA? Not this time for Celtics
BOSTON (AP) — Kobe Bryant sank a go-ahead fallaway jumper with 7.3 seconds left to give the Los Angeles Lakers a 90-89 victory over Boston on Sunday and send the struggling Celtics to their sixth loss in eight games. The Celtics, who led by 11 points in the fourth quarter, nursed a one-point lead until Paul Pierce was called for an offensive foul for pushing off as he jumped to shoot with 28 seconds left. Bryant, who shot just 8 for 20 in the game, dribbled down the shot clock before stepping back from defender Ray Allen and making a basket to give Los Angeles the lead
Bethpage Woman Honored for Escorting Haiti Quake Victim
A 22-year-old Bethpage college student who was vacationing in Haiti when the earthquake struck on Jan. 12 received a citation from Nassau County Executive Ed…
DA: 6 Stole $6M in Suffolk Mortgage Fraud Scheme
The last two of six alleged co-conspirators denied Thursday at Suffolk County court their involvement in a nearly $6 million mortgage fraud scheme. Luis Lino,…
Obama’s $3.8 trillion budget heading to Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Sunday endorsed spending an additional $100 billion to attack painfully high unemployment as it prepared to send Congress a $3.8 trillion budget that would provide billions more to pull the country out of the Great Recession while increasing taxes on the wealthy and imposing a spending freeze on many government programs. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the administration believed “somewhere in the $100 billion range” would be the appropriate amount for a new jobs measure made up of a business tax credit to encourage hiring, increased infrastructure spending and money from the government’s bailout fund to get banks to increase loans to struggling small businesses. That price tag would be below a $174 billion bill passed by the House in December but higher than an $83 billion proposal that surfaced last week in the Senate.
