The Hartford Courant, Conn., Patricia Seremet column: Tooting A Birthday Horn For Paul.

Apr. 19--Strike up the band! Paul Landerman, longtime orchestra leader to Hartford society, the tall man with the trombone and matinee idol good looks, turns 90 today. It's particularly important that we note this significant milestone because for at least 20 years he has been joking that people have thought he has been dead for years. He does have some company in the 90-year-old set. Stanley Aronson, his former saxophone player, who also played in Glenn Miller's orchestra, recently beat him to the 90 candles. Landerman, who lives in West Hartford, started out in 1939 leading 15- to 17-piece orchestras with his brother Maurice, a violinist, who has died. They were …

The Hartford Courant, Conn., Patricia Seremet column: Tooting A Birthday Horn For Paul.

Apr. 19--Strike up the band! Paul Landerman, longtime orchestra leader to Hartford society, the tall man with the trombone and matinee idol good looks, turns 90 today. It's particularly important that we note this significant milestone because for at least 20 years he has been joking that people have thought he has been dead for years. He does have some company in the 90-year-old set. Stanley Aronson, his former saxophone player, who also played in Glenn Miller's orchestra, recently beat him to the 90 candles. Landerman, who lives in West Hartford, started out in 1939 leading 15- to 17-piece orchestras with his brother Maurice, a violinist, who has died. They were …

2 charged in girl's murder // Franklin Pk. cops cite aid from public

Two suburban gang members were charged Sunday with the murder ofa 7-year-old Franklin Park girl, gunned down Friday as she waited inline at an ice cream truck.

Charged with the shooting that killed Juana Nieto and woundedthree other people were Miguel DeLeon, of Northlake, and ElvisBurleson, of Bensenville. Both are 18.

In announcing the arrests Sunday night, police said theshootings may have been gang related but also may have been a case ofmistaken identity.A 17-year-old Stone Park youth, who was driving past the icecream truck at the time of the shooting Friday afternoon, appeared tobe the target of the attack, Franklin Park Police Chief RalphIovinelli …

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MIRANT FILES FOR CHAPTER 11.(MAIN)

Byline: Associated Press

ATLANTA -- Energy supplier Mirant Corp., unable to reach a last-minute out-of-court debt restructuring plan with its creditors, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Monday.

A $1.1 billion debt payment was due today and Mirant needed all its banks and 85 percent of bondholders to back a debt exchange plan.

Mirant Corp., Mirant Americas Generation, LLC, and nearly of all their wholly-owned subsidiaries in the United States are included in the filings. Mirant's operations in the Philippines and the Caribbean were not included.

The filing is the latest …

Standalone terrorism coverage available, affordable; Some say standalone capacity could be exhausted if TRIA is allowed to expire.(Spotlight: Terrorism & Crisis Management)(Terrorism Risk Insurance Act)

Byline: GLORIA GONZALEZ

If the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act expires at the end of the year, risk managers will not be left completely without options if they want to buy terrorism coverage.

Standalone terrorism coverage, which is not supported by the government backstop, is available for risk managers and the price of the coverage, though sometimes high, is not always prohibitively expensive, observers say.

However, while there is sufficient capacity to meet most of today's demand for standalone coverage, the expiration of TRIA could fuel demand to such a level that standalone capacity might be exhausted, some observers say.

When Caesars Entertainment Inc. made its first foray into the standalone terrorism insurance market, for example, Lance Ewing, vp-risk management, found the market to be …

Harry Connick Jr stars in a Broadway love triangle

NEW YORK (AP) — Harry Connick Jr. is stinking up Broadway and he knows it.

The singer, actor and musician has just cracked open a plastic container with his lunch and the powerful scent of salmon envelops him and a good-sized chunk of the empty seats around him in the St. James Theatre.

"This smells so bad, sorry," he says, digging in nonetheless with a rascal's grin. "I hate to eat in front of you, man. It smells disgusting."

Connick needs plenty of lean protein these days as he prepares to lead a reworked revival of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" to its Broadway opening, a task that's taking a lot out of the Grammy- and Emmy Award-winner.

"Man, this is so …

Hospital's officials voice optimism With funding on the line, Provident awaits inspection results

After claiming to have fixed problems that inspectors said had putpatients "at risk for serious harm or death," Provident Hospitalofficials now say they don't expect to have their federal fundingyanked.

Provident officials said Friday the hospital fared well in recentinspections by a group that accredits hospitals and by Illinoispublic health surveyors, who earlier this year issued scathingreports that cited several "significant" health code violations atthe Cook County-owned facility. Those reports, obtained by theChicago Sun-Times, revealed that patients died after being leftunattended, employees were lax about infection control, drugs weren'tproperly stored and a …