14 states agree to extend deadline to receive ballots from overseas voters
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has reached an agreement or won a court order in 14 states and territories to protect more than 65,000 overseas and military voters ahead of the Nov. 2 midterm...
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Massive storm spreads damage, injuries as it rolls into Southeast
VALE, N.C. — Fierce winds demolished three homes and injured 11 people in North Carolina and tornado watches were issued across the Southeast as a massive storm blew east Wednesday after lashing the...
View ArticleUpstate NY soldier killed in Iraq in non-combat incident
St. Johnsville, NY - A soldier from St. Johnsville, located about 86 miles east of Syracuse in Montgomery County, died Sunday in Iraq from injuries sustained in a non-combat incident, the Department...
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What's going on: Barack Obama to appear on The Daily Show
Also, death toll in Indonesia after two disasters reaches 300, and tight budgets means lights out for some Syracuse holiday displays. View full sizeCharles Sykes / APStephen Colbert (left) and Jon...
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Virginia man arrested in connection with plan to bomb D.C. subways
Federal law enforcement official set up a sting operation, posing as al-Qaida operatives. WASHINGTON — A Pakistani-born Virginia man was arrested Wednesday and charged with trying to help people...
View ArticleJuror deliberations to continue in 19-year-old murder case
Syracuse, NY -- An Onondaga County Court jury today began deliberating the case against a Syracuse man accused of murdering his pregnant, estranged wife 19 years ago. The nine women and three men on...
View ArticleSchroeppel cuts parks and recreation from proposed town budget
Schroeppel, NY -- The Schroeppel town board has cut money to run the town's parks and recreation department from the proposed budget for 2011. That means hundreds of residents could lose the chance to...
View ArticleIf they don't miss Proposal 1 on ballot, Onondaga County voters can shrink...
Syracuse, NY - Onondaga County voters eager to cut the size of government will get their chance with a swipe of the pencil on Tuesday. A referendum on the election ballot asks voters if the county...
View ArticleOswego Common Council votes to buy International Marina
Oswego, NY -- The Oswego Common Council Wednesday afternoon voted to buy the International Marina from the Port of Oswego Authority for $2.1 million. The vote was 5 to 2, with aldermen Constance...
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French firm buys 100 percent of rights to build third Oswego County nuclear...
Electricite de France is also buying Constellation Energy's 50 percent interest in nuclear development company Unistar. David Lassman / The Post-StandardAerial view looking north towards Lake Ontario...
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Kirsten Gillibrand, Joe DioGuardi campaign in Upstate New York
ALBANY, N.Y. — Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand promoted education for veterans, and Republican rival Joe DioGuardi warned about government debt Wednesday in separate upstate New York swings in the...
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Carl Paladino supports workers opposed to New York City mosque
NEW YORK — New York Republican gubernatorial candidate Carl Paladino has signed a pledge to support a group of construction workers opposed to a proposed Islamic community center and mosque near...
View ArticleCNY voters, here's who is on the Nov. 2 ballot
Syracuse, NY - What choices will voters have Nov. 2? Here’s the list of candidates certified by New York to be on the ballot for Central New York’s federal, state and local elected offices. (Key:...
View ArticleMan in Jeep now a 'potential suspect' in Marcum murder
Bethesda, Md. — Police in Maryland now say that the 18-year-old arrested driving a Jeep that had belonged to Sue Marcum is “a potential suspect” in Marcum’s murder. Marcum, 52, who graduated from...
View ArticleMaine diver videos underwater encounter with shark
EASTPORT, Maine — A Maine scuba diver came face-to-teeth with a shark — and he has the encounter on video. Scott MacNichol says he’s seen sharks underwater before, but he’s never had one attack his...
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Vera House evaluates its accessibility to gay community, people with...
Syracuse, NY -- Vera House presented the 21st annual Report to the Community Wednesday afternoon to more than 100 community members, police officers and survivors of domestic and sexual violence...
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Locke man charged with raping 3-year-old girl
Locke, NY -- A Cayuga County man has been charged with raping a 3-year-old girl. Robert Knapp, 35, of Old Genoa Road, in the Town of Locke, was arrested after Cayuga County sheriff’s deputies were...
View ArticleYour Comments: Cutting the size of the Legislature is simply a political move
Onondaga County voters eager to cut the size of government will get their chance with a swipe of the pencil Tuesday. A referendum on the election ballot asks voters if the county Legislature should be...
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Cicero residents will have a say about their police department at public hearing
Cicero, NY - Cicero residents are one step closer to getting a chance to vote on whether to keep or get rid of their police department. The town board tonight voted unanimously to hold a public...
View ArticleCicero residents signed up for police e-mails instead get political ad; DA to...
Cicero, NY - Someone has gotten a hold of the Cicero Police Department’s e-policing e-mail list and sent a political ad to residents. Cicero resident Gloria Hamilton, a registered Republican, told the...
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