Charmed life appears over for New York's first lady in wake of husband's scandal

Silda Wall Spitzer appeared to have it all.

The Harvard Law School graduate succeeded as a hard-charging corporate lawyer, then raised three daughters and supported the ambitions of her husband, Eliot, as he became New York's attorney general and then governor.

On Monday, she stood wordlessly by his side as he admitted to acting "in a way that violates my obligations to my family."

Fourteen months after Spitzer rode his reputation for clean politics into New York's highest office, he was linked to a federal investigation of a high-priced call-girl ring. He has not been charged, and prosecutors would not comment on the case.

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MSP to fight for social housing

The planning minister has been asked to intervene to overturn arecommendation to reduce cheap social housing in Aberdeen.

North-east Labour MSP Richard Baker has written to the Scottishplanning minister Stewart Stevenson after being alarmed byrecommendations made by a Planning Reporter on Aberdeen's local plan.

The Reporter dismissed the city council's decision to push fordevelopers to give 25% of developments over to council housing.

Instead he suggested it should be just 10%.

He made matters worse by saying that developers …

Embracing technology

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The great thing about technology is that it can be used to make things better. The problem with technology is that before you can say, "I forgot the music," it can also pave a direct route right around you and lead you quickly up a tunnel and into your own back entrance.

Technological advances in recording over the last 10 or 15 years have turned almost every musician on the planet into some form of recording engineer. I, for one, have waited for these salad days my whole musical career. Anyone who hears something in their head and cannot figure out a way to get someone else to capture it for them has suffered agonizing pain. Man plays guitar in …

Chelsea in contention for a trophy-laden season

A World Cup winning coach, a bolstered squad and new attacking tactics: Chelsea looks to have everything in place for a memorable season.

Even with a manager who seemed to inspire mistrust among fans and outright hostility in several players, the Blues came within two points of Premier League champion Manchester United last season and a missed penalty kick of winning the Champions League.

With Luiz Felipe Scolari now in charge, Chelsea looks well placed to return to the dominance it enjoyed under Jose Mourinho _ who won five titles in three years before being replaced by the largely unknown Avram Grant in September 2007.

Not that Scolari is …

Monday's Sports Scoreboard

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All Times Eastern
National Football League
No games today.
National Basketball Association
Miami 92, Atlanta 75 F
Oklahoma City 98, Chicago 85 F
New Orleans 91, Utah 87 F
L.A. Clippers 105, Portland 95 F

Partnership to target gun-related crimes

Project Surefire is about to take aim at gun crimes in theChicago area.

Federal law enforcement officials today will announce a majornew partnership with city, county and state agencies to combatfirearm-related crimes, the Chicago Sun-Times has learned.

The name of the project is meant to send a message to criminalsthat "if you break any firearms law, it's a sure-fire way to go tojail," said Kathleen Kiernan, special agent in charge of Chicago'soffice of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, who willannounce the task force today.Kiernan will be one of several featured speakers at MayorDaley's fourth annual "Summit on Gangs, Guns and Drugs," expected …

Pastor's daughter accidentally shot at church dies

ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (AP) — Authorities say a pastor's daughter who was accidentally shot in the head in a Florida church has died.

The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office says 20-year-old Hannah Kelley died Saturday at a hospital. An autopsy is pending.

Kelley had been hospitalized since Sunday, when she was hit in the head by a bullet at her father's Grace Connection Church in St. …