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Google Instant upgrade tries to read users' minds
Feature aims to speed searches by displaying results before you finish typing. San Francisco — Google Inc. stepped on its Internet search accelerator Wednesday by adding a feature that displays...
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Thousands of Syracuse students head back to school today
Syracuse street corners were dotted with chilly, sleepy, backpack laden students this morning as they waited for the buses that would deliver them to day one of the new school year. It is opening day...
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Carl Paladino's company got felony charge 10 years ago for improper Syracuse...
Criminal case resolved with plea bargain. Lazio campaign criticizes 1999 Eastwood Sports Center demolition; Paladino calls it a smear campaign. Dick Blume / The Post-Standard, 1999The partially...
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Lunchtime Links: 'Sad Keanu' makes a comeback as latest meme
Also: MGM lion attack caught on tape; fan beaned by baseball. FlickrVintage Sad Keanu (far right). » Remember "Sad Keanu"? Actor Keanu Reeves became a meme on the Internet as digital illustrators went...
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Weedsport woman, whose 3 children were killed in crash when she tried to flee...
Lisa M. Parker served 2 years of her 1- to 3-year sentence. Dick Blume / The Post-Standard, 2008Lisa M. Parker leaves the Jefferson County Courthouse on Sept. 8, 2008 after receiving a 1- to 3-year...
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Judge denies change of venue for trial of Oneida County man accused of...
UTICA, N.Y. -- An Oneida County judge denied a request to move the trial of a Blossvale man accused of shooting and killing his 3-month-old son in front of state troopers to another location. Adam...
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Utica man accused of shooting deputy while fleeing bank robbery pleads not...
Utica, NY -- The man accused of shooting an Oneida County sheriff’s deputy while fleeing a bank robbery in Rome in July pleaded not guilty to 12 felony charges. Brian J. Brown, 31, of Utica, was...
View ArticleSyracuse man, 19, charged in the shooting of 15-year-old boy
Syracuse, NY -- A 19-year-old Syracuse man is charged with two felonies in the July shooting of a 15-year-old boy, Syracuse police said. Synike White, 19, of 431 Westmoreland Ave., Apartment 1, was...
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Schumer: Feds to award $2.25 million to Syracuse University's Connective...
Money will pay for electronic schedule signs, pilot program for 20 buses. John Berry / Post-Standard file photoCentro has won a federal grant of $2.25 million to expand its project with Syracuse...
View ArticlePolice chase of wanted Syracuse man ends in arrest, seizure of crack cocaine
Syracuse, NY -- A man with seven active warrants was taken into custody Wednesday night following a police chase, both in cars and on foot, on Syracuse's Southside, police said. Christopher Caldwell,...
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Your comments: Share your examples of strange Google Instant results
One commenter's search yielded, 'Why is there a dead pakistani on my couch.' View full size The new upgrade to Google searches, Google Instant, displays search results before you finish typing -- some...
View ArticleCentral New York Muslims mark the end of Ramadan tonight
Syracuse, NY--Central New York Muslims will mark the end of Ramadan tonight, before celebrating Eid-ul-Fitr tomorrow with a carnival at the Islamic Society of Central New York in Syracuse. Muslims...
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Syracuse woman swings baby carrier with child in it to try to avoid theft arrest
New Hartford, NY -- Three Syracuse woman escaped being stopped by loss prevention officers at a New Hartford store Wednesday by swinging an occupied baby carrier at one of the store’s loss prevention...
View ArticleLeandra's Law: Why one driver with kids in car faces six felonies, another...
On Aug. 30, a Rochester woman was stopped for a seatbelt violation as she was entering the state Thruway in Van Buren with six children in her vehicle. After troopers suspected she had been drinking,...
View ArticleHydrofracking movie to be shown at Newhouse tonight
Tonight's screening of the documentary movie "Gasland," which details the hazards of using hydraulic fracturing or hydrofracking to release natural gas from Marcellus shale, has been moved from...
View ArticleCicero cable customers to pay more fees as town faces budget shortfall
Cicero, NY - Cicero residents who subscribe to either Time Warner or Verizon soon will be paying a little more for cable. The town board Wednesday night voted 4-1 to enter into a 15-year contract that...
View ArticleWhat's going on: Colorado wildfires destroy 169 homes so far
Also, event at Skidmore College aims to counter Florida Quran-burning event, and Syracuse University, other colleges investigate synthetic marijuana after students overdose. From The Associated Press:...
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Florida minister cancels burning of Qurans on 9/11
He says he made the decision because a mosque planned for a few blocks from ground zero will be moved. View full sizeJohn Raoux / APRev. Terry Jones at the Dove World Outreach Center in Gainesville,...
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Your Comments: Hey, Cicero, taxpayers are facing budget shortfalls, too!
Cicero residents who subscribe to either Time Warner or Verizon soon will be paying a little more for cable after the town board Wednesday night to increase the franchise fee from 3 percent to 3.5...
View ArticleDiNapoli: New York state budget condition appears 'precarious'
ALBANY, N.Y. — New York state Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli warned Thursday that the state budget adopted by the Legislature and Gov. David Paterson as a model of fiscal responsibility actually relies...
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