SUV with three children inside careens down Syracuse hill with no driver
Three children alone in a SUV careened down a Syracuse hill Saturday night and into an intersection while a man ran after the vehicle, witnesses said. No one was hurt, police said. The white 2001...
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Syracuse officers work from trailers on crime-heavy streets
Syracuse residents are giving mixed reviews to a new police program that’s supposed to curb neighborhood violence and illegal activity. The Strategic Team-Oriented Policing In Neighborhoods, or...
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New York to raise standards, regrade English and math assessment tests
State says score requirements exaggerate students' proficiency. Ellen M. Blalock/The Post-Standard, 1999 New York state introduced its math and English assessment examinations in 1999. Here, fourth...
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Doing time on the license-plate line
Auburn Correctional Facility inmates crank out the millions of plates that go on to vehicles around the state. Stephen D. Cannerelli/The Post-StandardThe new license plates in New York have a gold...
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CenterState axes position, expenses to cut losses at Tech Garden
By Rick Moriarty Staff writer Syracuse Technology Garden, the downtown business incubator opened by the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce nearly six years ago, eliminated its executive director’s...
View ArticleHastings sisters, pets get out of burning mobile home safely
Hastings, NY -- Amanda Haskins, 19, and her 17-year-old sister had just gone to bed around 2 a.m. today when they heard popping and crackling noises in their Oswego County home. Then the power went...
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What's going on: BP says cap could keep a lid on spilling oil until well is...
Also: Clinton delivers major funding for Pakistan; suicide attacks kill dozens in Iraq. Dave Martin / The Associated PressAn oil slick sits on the surface of the water a few miles from the site of the...
View ArticleCortland County man douses himself in gasoline during domestic dispute
Cortland, NY - A town of Virgil man dumped gasoline over his body while arguing with his wife, according to Cortland County sheriff's deputies. Deputies say 33-year-old Robert Root poured the gasoline...
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Patch with 'microneedles' could make flu shot painless
People could get Band-Aid-like vaccine delivered to their home. Nature Publishing Group via APThis is a microscopic image of dissolving microneedles, shown here encapsulating a pink dye to simulate...
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Your comments: Frightened Syracuse residents need cops to walk a beat in...
'Go down to Butternut and Knaul tonight and walk around for 15 minutes, then come back here tomorrow and "whine" about your experience.' Clay Willis / The Post-StandardOfficers Steve Bear, left, and...
View ArticleHarley Davidson rider may have been speeding without helmet before deadly...
Paris, NY - A 54-year-old Oneida County man was killed Saturday when he crashed a 2001 Harley Davidson in the town of Paris, Oneida County sheriff's deputies said. Robert B. Brown, of Bridgewater,...
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With a tank full of twigs, Otisco man's pickup heads for the highway
Rick Bates converted his 1969 truck to run on smoke from heated wood. He's driving it to Massena on Monday. Stephen D. Cannerelli/The Post-StandardSUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry...
View ArticleBrothers arrested after robbery with baseball bat on Syracuse's Near West Side
Syracuse, NY -- Two Syracuse brothers were arrested early Sunday after a domestic dispute escalated into a robbery with a baseball bat, city police said. Elias D. Franco, 26, of 145 Orlando Ave., and...
View ArticleFleeting 'F-word' insufficient for FCC fine, federal court finds
Syracuse, NY - It’s not everyday you read the F-word and other vulgarities in a court ruling. But that’s what happens when the court is addressing the Federal Communications Commission’s policy...
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Syracuse area road report: Park Street lane closures affect access to...
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...
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Proposed Onondaga Community College building would span a gorge
Syracuse, NY - Students at Onondaga Community College will have another new building soon if Onondaga County legislators approve spending $8.45 million to help pay for it. There’s more to this...
View ArticleTroopers find Cold Brook man, accused of assaulting wife, dead from...
Cold Brook, NY – A man accused by his wife of assaulting her and menacing her with a shotgun was found dead in their Herkimer County home from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, state police said....
View ArticleOnondaga County considers using outside company to provide nursing, other...
Health services in Onondaga County’s jails could soon be run by a private company. The county last month sent out requests for proposals to companies that specialize in health and mental health...
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Schumer says U.S. government should investigate whether BP deal freed...
New York — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder should investigate whether embattled oil giant BP brokered an illegal deal to free Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in exchange for access to Libyan...
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What's going on: Seep found near Gulf oil well, but it may not be BP's fault
Also: India trains crash, killing dozens. Dave Martin / The Associated PressOil cleanup workers skim for oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Perdido Pass in Orange Beach, Ala., during a...
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