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Syracuse area road report: Your guide to CNY construction news
Indicates ramp or road restrictionsIndicates ramp or road closures Onondaga County Butternut Street bridge reconstruction: View I-81ButternutStreetBridge in a larger map Click map markers for details...
View ArticleFive years of pooling $10 each week for lottery tickets pays off for New...
The winners don't plan to quit their day job. Their winnings amount to about $3.7 million each, after taxes. DeWitt, NY -- Freddie Hands, Douglas Tedford and Ronald Edwards plan to keep working at New...
View ArticleNew York lawmakers pass bill allowing trooper's widow to receive his pension
Syracuse, NY -- John Gorke had served 19 years and nine months as a state trooper when he was killed in a bicycle accident on Route 20 in Pompey last July 3. Just three more months of work would have...
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Concerns rising that economic recovery is slowing
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Concerns are rising that the economic rebound is stalling, but a strong jobs report on Friday would go a long way towards assuaging those fears. Conversely, a report showing private...
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Spy story: Prosecutors say NY suspect spilled details on Russians
NEW YORK (AP) -- Within hours of his capture, U.S. prosecutors say, Russian spy suspect Juan Lazaro admitted his name was an alias. So who is he? Lazaro wasn't saying - not "even for his son," court...
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Volunteers ready but left out of spill cleanup
Many are ready to pitch in, but boats and people are sitting idle. NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- BP and the Obama administration face mounting complaints that they are ignoring foreign offers of equipment and...
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Hot, sunny weekend in store for Independence revelers
Syracuse, NY – Mother Nature has terrific weather in store for Central New York over Uncle Sam’s favorite weekend. Daytime highs are expected to run from the mid to upper 70s today to the low- to...
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Cicero town officials decide not to donate to Brewerton fireworks for the...
Cicero, NY - For the first time in nine years, the town of Cicero is not contributing to the Brewerton fireworks celebration Saturday. “It’s disappointing because this is a community effort,” said...
View ArticleOnondaga County mulls offering retirement incentives to 1,400 workers
About 270 employees are expected to take the deal. SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Some 270 Onondaga County employees — about one out of every 15 — are expected to retire this year if the county Legislature agrees...
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Cortland police charge 4 men with robbery, kidnapping in home invasion
Cortland police have charged four men with robbery and kidnapping connected to a home invasion Tuesday on Charles Street. The four are: Jacob J. Empey, 18, 7 Elm Street, Cortland; Zachary P. Hostrup,...
View ArticleLunchtime Links: Mom faces charges after 72 snakes discovered in apartment
From TV station KOAT in Albuquerque, N.M.: ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- A team from the city's Criminal Nuisance Abatement Unit has red-tagged the apartment where officials have found 72 live snakes, at last...
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State police looking for connection between human remains and missing...
Town of Endfield, NY--The New York State police in Ithaca are trying to figure out if the human remains found early Thursday morning on Halseyville Road, in the town of Endfield on the border with the...
View ArticleMan who hid under woman to avoid police sentenced for robbery
Syracuse, NY--The Syracuse man police found hiding underneath a woman in bed in February after he robbed a Salt City Taxi driver was sentenced Friday to two to six years in state prison. Onondaga...
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USAID compound attacked in Afghanistan; 4 killed
Attack comes on the same day Gen. David Petraeus arrives in Afghan capital. View full sizeThe Associated PressU.S. soldiers escort a wounded foreign contractor at a USAID compound in Kunduz, north of...
View ArticleAP Video: 21 killed in Mexican gang battle near U.S. border
Nearly two dozen people have been killed in a massive gun battle between rival drug and migrant trafficking gangs near the U.S. border. » 21 killed in rival Mexican gang shootout near U.S.-Arizona...
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Body of Spc. Blair Thompson comes home to Central New York
Rome, NY – The body of Army Specialist Blair Thompson was returned to his family in a brief ceremony today at Griffiss International Airport outside of Rome. Thompson, 19, died June 25 in an ambush by...
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Four charged with burglary, assault following fight with fifth man in Oswego
Oswego, NY – Four men who allegedly fought with a fifth man on the street then broke into his home to continue the fight were charged early today with felony burglary and misdemeanor assault, Oswego...
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Frequent protester Kathleen Rumpf lives outside Syracuse jail to draw...
Death of an inmate from ruptured ectopic pregnancy inspired her latest protest. View full sizeDick Blume / The Post StandardKathleen Rumpf is living in a self-imposed jail cell next to the Justice...
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SPCA investigates abuse of puppy found in Fulton
The CNY SPCA investigators are trying to determine how a puppy’s jaw was nearly severed off. Rockford, a six- to eight-month-old pit bull, was found Tuesday by employees at Absolute Auto and Audio in...
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What's going on: Alleged Russian spies tell court their true identities
Also, Army Secretary John McHugh wants to give soldiers more time at home, and state police investigate discovery of human remains. View full sizeLouis Lanzano / APBrooklyn resident Jose Rosario holds...
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