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A home that burned Wednesday night is seen Thursday at 1734 Hinds Road in Kingsbury. Fire� ghters found human remains in the home and police believe they are that of the homeowner, 63-year-old Marilyn C. McIntosh.
Body found after blazeBy DON LEHMAN
KINGSBURY ◆ Police believe a 63-year-old woman died in a fi re that destroyed her Hinds Road home late Wednesday.
The remains of a woman were found inside the Hinds Road ranch home of Marilyn C. McIntosh after a fast-moving fi re tore through the house where McIntosh lived with her dog. The dog has not been found.
McIntosh was unaccounted for after the fi re was reported at 1734 Hinds Road at about 7:15 p.m., and fi refi ghters found a body inside the charred home later Wednesday after
City of Light in mourning
By PATRICK J. MCDONNELLLos Angeles Times
PARIS ◆ France mourned its dead Thursday amid a na-tional sense of alarm as law en-
forcement authorities using a massive dragnet searched for two brothers suspected in the massacre of a dozen people at a Paris newspaper.
As of early Friday, the two
men had eluded a police hunt focused on several northern French towns where the fu-gitives were reportedly seen robbing a gas station and looking for a hide-out. Images on French television showed masked anti-terrorism po-lice in full riot gear searching semirural homes as a helicop-ter hovered overhead.
Adding to the unease was
news of another killing, a fe-male police o� cer in a south Paris neighborhood. A man fatally shot her during a tra� c incident and fl ed, authorities said. It was unclear whether the shooting was linked to Wednesday’s killings at the o� ces of the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo.
MICHAEL SPINGLER—ASSOCIATED PRESS
An armed police of� cer patrols Thursday in the village of Fleury, north east of Paris, hunting down the two heavily armed brothers suspected in Wednesday’s massacre at Charlie Hebdo newspaper.
Tippees may get pay boost
By DAVID KLEPPERAssociated Press
ALBANY ◆ Servers, busboys and hotel housekeepers in New York could soon get a raise, though not as big as labor advocates want.
State law allows servers and other tipped workers to make less than the state’s minimum wage of $8.75 an hour as long as their tips make up the di� erence.
For servers, the base wage is $5. For other tipped workers, it is $5.65.
On Thursday, the State Wage Board considered the so-called tipping wage in its plans to rec-ommend a fi gure to the state labor commissioner, who will make the fi nal decision.
The three-member board dis-cussed, but did not approve, a rec-ommendation to raise the wage to the state’s minimum. Instead, the board decided to consider at the next meeting a recommendation to raise the tipping wage to $7 an hour.
Labor advocates want the board to eliminate the tipping wage alto-gether and require tipped workers to be paid the standard minimum wage before tips. But business groups warn that signifi cant in-creases in the cost of labor will hurt businesses.
Board Chairman Timothy Grippen made the $7 an hour proposal, noting the tipped wage hasn’t been increased in propor-tion to the minimum wage for some time.
He said $7 an hour for food
Little touts priorities
By MAURY [email protected]
QUEENSBURY ◆ State Sen. Eliza-beth Little, R-Queensbury, said a con-sumer protection research “exercise” she conducted had an ironic result.
Little said she asked all of her sta� to bring in the VIN numbers of their
personal vehicles to conduct an online search for any man-ufacturer recalls on the vehicles.
“And I do have a recall on the car I’m driving,” she said.
Little said she will introduce legislation this year to require
automotive dealers to research the recall status of used vehicles they sell
Woerner backs vote
By BILL [email protected]
Carrie Woerner knew both po-litical friends and foes would want her to explain her vote for Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, so she had her reasons laid out.
Woerner, newly elected in of the 113th Assembly District, which
covers parts of Washington and Saratoga counties, joined all but one of her fellow Dem-ocrats in voting for incumbent Silver on Wednesday, despite reports Sil-ver is under federal investigation.
“I foresaw that it was going to come up, so I anticipated the ques-tion,” she said Thursday. “Here’s
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More insideDetails on the suspects released.
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Kingsbury | Homeowner believed to have died in Wednesday night fire
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For more on the stock market’s gains, please see Page D2.
Market watchThursday, Jan. 8, 2015
Dow Jones
Open: 17,584.52
+323.35Close: 17,907.87
NASDAQOpen: 4,650.47
+85.72Close: 4,736.19
S & P 500Open: 2,025.90
+36.24Close: 2,062.14
See LABOR, Back Page
See WOERNER, Back PageSee LITTLE, Back Page
Senator addresses recalls on autos, tax incentives, Northway tourism signs
Despite federal probe, Sheldon Silver remains U.S. Assembly speaker
State Wage Board eyes increase to $7 per hour
Paris | Several are detained a� er attack on Charlie Hebdo
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An Argyle � re� ghter investigates Thursday the remains of a house that burned Wednesday night in Kingsbury.
