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New York Lottery Director John Quinn said Thursday he's asked Florida officials to scratch his name from a list of potential candidates to head that state's new lottery.
"The invitation of the state of Florida to be considered for possible selection to develop a lottery for that state is both complimentary and challenging," Quinn said. "I appreciate the expression of confidence, but my heart and my head remain committed to New York state."
ROCHESTER - A city man enraged that the head of a golf club struck his house was jailed without bail on murder charges Thursday in a knife attack that killed a local musician and injured a woman who stopped to help.
Robert Stokes, 45, was charged with second-degree murder and first-degree assault in the Wednesday evening incident outside his home, police said.
Capt. Robert Dewey said the incident began when the head of a golf club being swung by a group of young people struck Stokes' home. Stokes allegedly came out of his house with a paring knife and started swinging the weapon at the offenders.
Gary Zorno, 23, of Rochester died at St. Mary's Hospital shortly after the 5p.m. incident from a stab wound to the heart, Dewey said. Zorno played bass guitarin a Rochester rock band.
A passer-by who stopped to help, Debbie Smith, 25, of Rochester, was listed in satisfactory condition after being stabbed in the chest and face.
BUFFALO - The Erie County Health Department hopes to begin testing residents for the AIDS virus in about a week, officials saidThursday.
Mary Lou Fleissner, county director of preventive and environmental health services, said the free, confidential tests will be available to all residents at the county's Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic.
Fleissner said the top priority will be clinic patients being treated for other types of sexually transmitted diseases. She said through the end of last month, 51 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome had been diagnosed in Erie County.
SYRACUSE - Rubber gloves were running in short supply in central New York Thursday as food service operators scrambled to comply with a county health directive aimed at fighting the spread of hepatitis.
Meanwhile, another Syracuse area restaurant worker - the sixth in a month - has been diagnosed as having hepatitis A. Health officials predicted a peak of the contagious disease.
Earlier this week, Onondaga County Health Commissioner Dr. James Miller ordered all food service workers in the county to wear rubber gloves while handling food.
The value of agricultural land not subject to taxation in New York state edged up in 1985 to $725 million, but the yearly increases are beginning to slow, state officials reported Thursday.
In its third report on agricultural land tax exemptions, the state Board of Equalization and Assessment said the 1985 figures indicated a tax shift of $25.4 million to other property classes.
NIAGARA FALLS - Greenpeace, the environmental group known for its dramatic acts of civil disobedience, had its latest campaign against Niagara River pollution blown off course Thursday.
Greenpeace staged the campaign to convince New Yorkers that toxic landfills in Niagara County affect them even if they live hundreds of miles away.
In a departure for the environmental group, which in the past has plugged sewers and hung a banner in the Niagara River gorge, Greenpeace merely launched a hot-air balloon bearing protest signs.
Wind currents, however, carried the balloon away from the CECOS International Corp. landfill site that the balloonists had hoped to fly over.
CECOS is applying to the state for a sixth hazardous-waste landfill.
BUFFALO - Despite operating at below half capacity, shipping on the St. Lawrence Seaway for the first half of 1987 is up 14 percent over last year's first six months, officials said Thursday.
William A. O'Neil, president of the Canadian St. Lawrence Seaway Authority, said despite recent problems, the inland waterway remains a viable and inexpensive method to move cargo.
But the seaway, stretching 2,500 miles from western Lake Superior to the Atlantic Ocean, still suffers perception problems as a result of blockages in1984 and 1985, O'Neil said.
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