Two mountain climbers from Connecticut were stranded for more than 6 hours in the Adirondacks Saturday night before rescue teams were able to reach them.

According to WIRY in Plattsburgh, the 2 men were stranded 300 feet from the bottom of Mount Pokomoonshine in Keeseville, located between the Adirondack mountains and Lake Champlain.

Charles Schumer, who's on the Senate committee that will consider Harriet Miers' nomination, says President Bush's Supreme Court choice lacks the votes to be confirmed.

The 13-year-old case involves black students and residents in Oneonta. It started when a 77-year-old woman said she was attacked in her home near the Oneonta State campus in September 1992. She identified her assailant as a black male who may have cut himself.

Police questioned nearly 100 black students and examined them for cuts. They stopped another 200 black men in "street sweeps." No arrest was ever made.

A group of students and others sued in federal court in 1993, claiming they were unconstitutionally targeted. A federal judge dismissed the claim in 1995. In 2001, the US Supreme Court refused to hear the case.

Manning, a veteran state assemblyman from Dutchess County, notes the head of the US Chamber of Commerce has criticized the State Attorney General for his crusades against conflicts of interest on Wall Street and in the insurance industry, hurting targeted companies' bottom lines.

Former Massachusetts Governor William Weld, now running for governor of his native New York, shouldn't look to fellow Republican John Spencer, a former Yonkers mayor, for any support.

The conservative Spencer, who is seeking the GOP's nomination for US Senate, told Albany's WROW radio last week that Weld is, quote, "an embarrassment" and "another stone liberal."

Police say 19-year-old Clay Grovemeyer was driving near the SUNY Brockport campus when he crashed into a power pole. The power lines fell on top of the car and sparked a fire.

This summer, researchers from other universities nearly submitted a paper claiming Cornell's blurry 4-second video released in April actually showed a pileated woodpecker, not an ivory-bill.

The researches decided not to submit the paper after the Cornell lab sent them audio recordings that captured the woodpecker's calls and knocks.

In his inaugural address, Seligman promised he would defend academic freedom, which he said has been under attack by tensions between religious beliefs, government policy and science.

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