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ALBANY, NEW YORK TUESDAY, AUGUST 23, 2011

Gadhafi still at large as son mysteriously resurfaces and claims forces still control parts of Libya capital
By KARIN LAUB and BEN HUBBARD associated Press

Defiant boast in Libya

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A3 senators: Jail the bomber. A7 a transforming army. B1 the mother of a Lockerbie victim speaks out on Gadhafi. seemed to be slipping fast. Rebels say they control the large majority of Tripoli, but on Monday they were still fighting pockets of fierce resistance from regime loyalists firing mortars and anti-aircraft guns. Rebel spokesman Mothers loyalists still control parts of Tripoli and would crush the rebellion. Seif al-Islams sudden even surreal arrival at a Tripoli hotel where foreign journalists are staying threw the situation in the capital into confusion. It underlined the potential for Gadhafi, whose whereabouts remain unknown, to lash back even as his grip on power

LIBYANS CELEBRATE the end of the Gadhafi regime on tuesday in the rebel-held town of Benghazi. However, the happiness that followed the rebel march into tripoli is fading into confusion.

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TRIPOLI, Libya The son and heir apparent of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, Seif al-Islam, resurfaced free and defiant early Tuesday, a day after rebels claimed to have captured him, boasting in a bizarre reappearance that his fa-

hammed Abdel-Rahman, who was in Tripoli, said the danger is still there as long as the elder Gadhafi remains on the run. He warned that pro-Gadhafi brigades are positioned on Tripolis outskirts and could be in the middle of the city in half an hour. The rebel leadership seemed stunned that Seif al-Islam was free. The leaderships spokesman, Sadeq al-Kabir, had no explanation and could only say, This could be all lies.
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The Family House gets a new home

a trailer from ground zero thats served as a surrogate cemetery for 9/11 families is coming to museum./B1

STATE

Fuel plant cancels lease

$350m ethanol project at port terminated by mutual agreement

They want their shot,too

Gun makers want rest of state to know that they are a big part of New york states industrial landscape./A3

By LARRY RULISON Business writer

NATION

Bottoms up,boss!
the boss thought having a subordinate drink fracking fluid would make a point./A10

THESE WORKERS are just a few of the large crew working on the restoration of the state Capitol. the work site is more than 200 feet in the air and offers views of downtown albany and its surrounding areas.

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New vision for Capitol forms

stepped-up work yields results as renovation, restoration proceeds
By CASEY SEILER state editor

HOPE FUND

A highlight of summer
Long Point Camp gives youth a taste of the outdoors./B1

SPORTS

Brown going after his dream race

mechanicville native Chad Brown will send Bowmans Causeway to the post in the travers at saratoga./C1

ALBANY The state Capitols new look has begun to take shape. A month ago, the fifth-floor space above the state Senate staircase resembled a warren of offices after a visit from a medium-sized tornado. Today, its almost completely emptied out and ready for the structural and cosmetic work that

will make way for the installation of a skylight. A few steps away in the central space known as T ower Hall, the transformation is even more remarkable: Scaffolding and plastic sheeting required by the final stages of asbestos abatement have departed, leaving an airy cube lit by sunlight from an open portal above, interrupted by a platform that will eventually serve as home of the Legislatures bill-drafting operation. Inside and atop the Capitol, theres still plenty of work to do on the renovation and restoration thats
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A VIEW of the renovations in progress in the legislative bill drafting room at the state Capitol.

ALBANY Plans for a $350 million ethanol plant at the Port of Albany have been scrapped as Congress inches closer to eliminating lucrative tax subsidies for the corn-to-fuel industry. Port of Albany General Manager Rick Hendrick said Monday that the port and Albany Renewable Energy LLC have canceled their lease agreement for the project. Hendrick said that although Albany Renewable Energy had never missed a monthly payment on the $360,000-a-year lease in three years, the company said in July it would not be able to make its August payment. Understanding that the project had trouble getting financing since the 20-year lease was signed back in 2008, Hendrick said both sides agreed to revoke the lease without litigating. The deal allows the port to immediately find a new tenant for the 18-acre parcel. We agreed both parties would sign off, Hendrick said. Ed Stahl, a principal with Albany Renewable Energy, confirmed the two sides mutually agreed to terminate the lease but declined to elaborate. Hendrick said Albany Renewable Energy was not able to
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BUSINESS

Dont expect much

a survey of top economists says we wont hit a recession, but a weak U.s. economy will prevail well into 2012./D1

Lethal anger at home on rise

state report notes a 10 percent hike in slayings by family members
By DENNIS YUSKO staff writer

Losing support

SPORTS

Giants win,lose
New york crushes Chicago 41-13 with ground game but cornerback terrell thomas may be gone for the year./C1

DAY Cynthia Monacchio no longer loved her husband, but stayed with him to help raise their children, her sister said. She also said Robert Monacchio Jr. didnt want his wife to leave him and sought counseling to try to save the marriage.

Joint funeral services for the couple are tentatively scheduled to be conducted in Day at the end of the week. On Friday, with their young children at his parents house, the 51-year-old Saratoga County man strangled his wife, also 51, and then killed himself with a shotgun, according to police. His father discovered the bodies in the couples home on Military Road when he stopped by to pick up clothes for the Monacchios daughter, 11, and son, 15, Cynthias sister said.
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Its the epitome of the word tragedy, Patricia Voshell of Millington, Md., said Monday in a phone interview. Their marriage was over. It was done, and my sister was ready to move on. Voshell spoke on the same day the state Division of Criminal Justice Services released a report showing that the number of household homicides committed by family members in New York rose 10 percent to 144 in 2010. They were among 862 homicides in the state, up from 782 in 2009,
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Manhattan DAs motion to dismiss charges in the case. Story/A3

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afissatou Diallo, left, the hotel maid who alleges ex-IMF director

Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her, talks about the

UPCOMING
a season preview of stillwater and CBa football teams. Wednesday

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