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Pizza deliveryman wounds teen during robbery

By BEN DOBBIN, Associated Press Writer

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) - A pizza deliveryman in Rochester who got into a tussle with a robber ended up in the hospital Friday with a bullet wound in the neck. Another deliveryman in Buffalo who said he was confronted by three bandits fought back, shooting a 15-year-old suspect twice in the back.

The wounded pizzeria employee, a 21-year-old, was seriously injured and appears to have suffered some paralysis, authorities said. The teenager was in stable condition with wounds not believed to be life-threatening.

While making a stop in a neighborhood north of downtown Rochester at around 2:15 a.m., a deliveryman was still sitting in his car when he was approached by a young man wielding a silver handgun, police said. They got into a brief altercation before the gun went off and the robber fled.

"The suspect asked him for money and he told him his company doesn't allow him to carry cash and that's when the suspect shot him,

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Hudson rail bridge will be high-altitude walkway

October 11, 2008

By MICHAEL HILL, Associated Press Writer

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (AP) - The Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge was a high-spanned marvel in its day, carrying everything from coal to trolley riders ove

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Flexible OLEDs could be part of lighting's future

October 11, 2008

By PETER SVENSSON, AP Technology Writer

NISKAYUNA, N.Y. (AP) - On a bank of the Mohawk River, a windowless industrial building of corrugated steel hides something that could make floor lamp

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States to zero-in on tax cheats as economy sags

October 10, 2008

By RICHARD RICHTMYER, Associated Press Writer

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The U.S. financial meltdown is creating brighter job prospects for at least one occupation: tax collector.

Several s

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Upstate Episcopal congregation splits from diocese

October 10, 2008

By CAROLYN THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer

TONAWANDA, N.Y. (AP) - Members of one of upstate's largest Episcopal congregations plan to break from the diocese of Western New York and the Ep

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Vultures circle Wall Street, but hesitate to feed

October 10, 2008

By DAVID B. CARUSO, Associated Press Writer

NEW YORK (AP) - When financial panic sweeps Bedford Falls in the 1946 movie "It's a Wonderful Life," the villain, Mr. Potter, moves to snap up th

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