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DIED. Floyd Patterson, 71, gentle and beloved legend of boxing; after years battling Alzheimer's and prostate cancer; in New Paltz, N.Y. The undersized high school dropout from Brooklyn, N.Y., won Olympic gold in 1952. Four years later, at age 21, he knocked out Archie Moore to become the world's youngest heavyweight champ--and the most conflicted. The Hall of Famer, who said he had "no self-esteem" as a kid, was so stung by a 1959 loss to Ingemar Johansson that he left the arena in disguise. Yet when he regained the title from Johansson a year later...
...NEW PALTZ, N.Y. Judges ruled 25 same-sex marriages invalid. And the mayor who wed them without licenses now faces misdemeanor charges...
DIED. AGNES (SIS) CUNNINGHAM, 95, who co-founded, with her husband, the influential folk-song journal Broadside in 1962; in New Paltz, N.Y. During its 26-year run, the magazine published more than 1,000 songs, including Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind and early works by Phil Ochs, Janis Ian, Tom Paxton and Buffy Sainte-Marie. An accomplished accordion and guitar player, she performed with Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger in the 1940s...
...Francisco issued 4,200 licenses until the state’s Supreme Court ordered the city to stop in March, and the mayor of New Paltz in upstate New York faces criminal charges for granting licenses to 25 gay couples...
...easy to miss the Oregon gay marriages. They began during a bewildering period earlier this year when four other localities--San Francisco; Sandoval County, N.M.; Asbury Park, N.J.; and New Paltz, N.Y.--also began recognizing same-sex marriages in one way or another. But the Oregon unions differ from the others significantly: no judge has authorized the other marriages, and in the four other states, authorities have intervened--in most cases swiftly--to stop the ceremonies. But in Oregon, a unique ruling upheld by the state supreme court in 1999 says government officials must meet an extraordinary burden to treat...