New York Desk
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CITYWIDE
CNN Poll: Clinton Already Running Strong for 2008
If yesterday’s resounding Election Day victory by Senator Clinton wasn’t enough to encourage her to seek the American presidency, a CNN poll of 1,008 American adults released yesterday shows Mrs. Clinton running virtually parallel with other top 2008 contenders — even when she is paired against Senator McCain and former Mayor Giuliani. Mrs. Clinton, who surprised even her critics by sweeping the election, won 67% of the vote — a 12% increase, her campaign staff says, over her 2000 senate seat victory of 55% of Empire State voters. This time, the former First Lady carried 58 of New York’s 62 counties, compared with 15 in 2000. The poll contained mixed news for Democratic Senators Obama and Kerry, who consistently came in second against Messrs. Giuliani and McCain.
— Special to the Sun
IRS To Refund $280M To City, Its Injured Officers
The city will receive $280 million from the IRS, which has been overtaxing injured uniformed city employees on their Social Security contributions, city lawyers announced yesterday. The city has long contested the IRS’s practice of withholding some taxes from payments made to workers injured in the line of duty. The city will keep half of that amount while the other $140 million will be refunded to about 73,000 current and retired employees. The payments, the city had argued, were comparable to worker’s compensation, which are exempt from such withholdings.
— Staff Reporter of the Sun
2006 National Medal of Arts Winners Announced
President Bush announced yesterday the winners of the 2006 National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medal. New York was represented by two winners: photographer Roy R. De-Carava, the first black American to receive a Guggenheim Fellowship, and literary translator Gregory Rabassa, who works in Spanish and Portuguese and is perhaps best known for his translation of “100 Years of Solitude.” The National Medal of Arts award is the highest award given to artists and patrons by the American government.
— Staff Reporter of the Sun
POLICE BLOTTER
Man Arrested In Brooklyn Shooting
A 67-year-old man shot and killed another man in the Prospect Heights section of Brooklyn yesterday, police officials said. Clement Calixte, 67, allegedly shot an unidentified man in the back after a dispute at about 1 p.m. at 583 Vanderbilt Ave., police said. Mr. Calixte lived at that address. He was charged with murder yesterday, but hadn’t been arraigned as of press time. The victim was taken to Methodist Hospital where he was pronounced dead, police said. A .38 caliber handgun was recovered at the scene.
— Staff Reporter of the Sun
Pedestrian Killed By City Bus in the Bronx
A woman was struck and killed by a city bus in the Bedford Park section of the Bronx yesterday, police officials said. Ellen McHugh, 66, of 136 E. 208th St., was crossing East Gun Hill Road when a #10 bus, which was turning left onto the street from Bainbridge Avenue, struck her at about 6:17 a.m. McHugh was taken to Montifiore Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. Police issued the driver, who wasn’t identified, with a summons for failing to yield to a pedestrian.
— Staff Reporter of the Sun