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SUNY Oswego Onondaga Community College to host visiting Fulbright scholar
SYRACUSE, N.Y., -- SUNY Oswego and Onondaga Community College have been selected to host a Fulbright scholar-in-residence from India who will teach courses and engage with the Central New York community during the 2013-14 academic year. Paula Banerjee, an associate professor of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of Calcutta, was awarded the Fulbright grant by the J. William ...
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North Syracuse voters approve revised school budget
North Syracuse, NY -- North Syracuse Central School District voters approve the district's revised 2013-14 school year budget proposal with a 58 percent approval. More than 5,600 votes were cast, with 3,329 "yes" votes and 2,365 "no" votes on the $143,525,985 proposal. The approved budget proposal includes a tax levy increase of 3.45 percent. The tax increase would ...
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Bill bars payments to tax-delinquent landlords
The state Senate on Tuesday approved legislation sponsored by Sen. John DeFrancisco to prevent public welfare agencies from paying rent to tax-delinquent landlords. The Assembly is not expected to act on the legislation this ...
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Car crashes into New York City grocery store eight injured
A car collided with another car, jumped a curb and smashed into a grocery store in New York City Wednesday, injuring eight people, police said. The cars crashed at 7:30 a.m. near Second Avenue and East Fourth Street in the East Village, WNBC-TV reported. Fire officials said eight people were hospitalized, three of them in serious condition. Five of the injured had been inside the vehicle that ...
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Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling
Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling NEW YORK - August 8 - At a press conference with Queens City Councilman Gennaro today, Riverkeeper called on Governor Paterson to designate the New York City Watershed ...
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FBI hunt for Jimmy Hoffas remains enters 3rd day
OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ...
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Ex-Marine to be reunited with bomb dog in RI
SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island state police will hold a ceremony this week that will reunite a retired Marine injured in an explosion in Afghanistan with the bomb-detecting dog he used to ...
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West at a glance Auburn opts out of ice at rink and Moravias budget passes
Syracuse, NY -- Auburn's rink going without ice and Moravia voters passing the school budget are stories impacting the Western suburbs this morning. Auburn's manager proposed not putting ice in the Casey Park rink this winter as the city struggles to put together a budget for next year. City Manager Doug Selby has also proposed more cuts to fire and police, as well as cuts in planning ...
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NY Minute Gov. Andrew Cuomo breaks up Womens Act into 10 bills
Gov. Andrew Cuomo discusses his proposed Women's Equality Act at a news conference in Albany in this file photo. Late Tuesday night, Cuomo broke up his 10-point bill into separate legislation to try and force both houses to vote separately on a range of pay equity, child care, domestic violence and other issues -- including ...
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Todays obituaries Lorraine Anita Coleman was a librarian for Syracuse city schools for 30 years
Lorraine Anita Coleman died Friday, June 7, 2013. Born in Talladega, Ala., she graduated from Talladega College in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in English. After completing her undergraduate studies, she moved to Brooklyn and was employed by the Brooklyn Library. She later enrolled at Syracuse University earning a master's degree in library science and completing 30 years of service ...
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World in Pictures June 19 2013 The Wanted in London and Madonna in New York
TODAY'S World in Pictures features photographs of Nathan Sykes, Tom Parker, Jay McGuiness, Max George and Siva Kaneswaran at the premiere of their reality E! TV series Wanted Life in London and Madonna at the world premiere of 'Madonna: The MDNA Tour' at the Paris Theatre in New ...
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NY GOPer buying home of US rep. he called chicken
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A Republican county official who once called a central New York congressman a "chicken" for skipping a televised debate is buying the Democratic lawmaker's suburban Syracuse ...
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Meg OConnell attends last Onondaga Community College board meeting as interim president
Syracuse, N.Y. -- Nearly a year has passed since Margaret "Meg" O'Connell was named interim president at Onondaga Community College. Tuesday she attended her last board meeting in that role, and the board of trustees praised her for her accomplishments. She'll be replaced ...
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Troopers confirm identities of two killed in Vienna car fire after crash June 8
Vienna, NY -- Investigators have confirmed the two people who died in a fatal crash in Vienna June 8, state police said. Angelo J. Gonzalez, 21, of Camden was originally thought to be a passenger in the vehicle, troopers said. The investigation revealed that Gonzalez was driving and Tyler Laplante, 20, was the passenger. A third passenger, Justin T. Didio, 22, from Oneida, was able to get out ...
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Nottingham High School to kick off Syracuses graduations tonight
Syracuse -- Nottingham High School will be first of the five Syracuse district high schools to hold its graduation this year. The school's 260 graduates will walk the stage at a ceremony beginning at 7 p.m. today at the John H. Mulroy Civic Center, 411 Montgomery St. Valedictorian Adam Luban will be going on to Middlebury College in the fall. Salutatorian Molly Burdick will go to Skidmore ...
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Store Front Roundup Live bait mini golf and auto detailing
BREWERTON, N.Y. - A hub of local fishing has a new bait shop. Rob Goffredo and his wife opened Bartel Road Bait & Tackle on May 1 at the Brewerton Centre Plaza in Brewerton. The 2,000-square-foot shop, near Oneida Lake, started off carrying live bait, lines, hooks and other bare necessities. The inventory has since expanded to include an array of lures and other fishing gear, Goffredo ...
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Rick Perry takes aim at New York
Rick Perry stars in an ad out Wednesday that coincides with his swing across the Northeast to lure jobs to Texas.The one-minute, campaign-style video - shared first with POLITICO - attacks New York, where the governor is spending the day, as a high-tax, high-regulation state. ...
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K-9 cop is hurt on job
Bear was treated at an animal-care facility and released later in the day. He’ll be back on the job today.The dog will have two teeth capped and is expected to return to full duty.Matos-Davis was charged with injuring a police animal, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.In 2011, Bear helped apprehend suspects in two other ...
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Car mows down roadside dinosaurs on Long Island
SOUTHAMPTON, N.Y. (AP) -- A Long Island man denies a police claim that he was intoxicated when his car smashed into about a dozen roadside ...
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NY Senate passes DeFrancisco bill barring state payments to tax-delinquent landlords
The state Senate on Tuesday approved legislation sponsored by Sen. John DeFrancisco to prevent public welfare agencies from paying rent to tax-delinquent landlords. The Assembly is not expected to act on the legislation this ...
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UK Auditor Agrees Fine And Ban In New York
A division of one of the UK's biggest auditors, Deloitte, has been fined $10m (6.4m) by New York state for its actions in advising Standard Chartered Bank over money laundering. In addition to the fine, Deloitte's Financial Advisory Services arm was also banned for one year from taking new work in the state after officials ruled it did not carry out its duties independently. The ...
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Most of NY canal system reopening as water levels ease
Provided photo. ALBANY, N.Y. -- Most of New York state's canal system shut down by high water from recent heavy rains will soon be open. The state Canal Corp. says all of the Erie Canal will be open as of 8 a.m. Wednesday, except for the stretch from Lock E-8 in Scotia to Lock E-15 in Fort Plain. Parts of the Oswego and Cayuga-Seneca canals that remained closed Tuesday will reopen around ...
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Brazil braces for more anti-government protests
Brazil braced for a new round of anti-government protests Wednesday after a violent night of looting and vandalism in Sao Paulo that led to at least 30 arrests. An estimated 50,000 people flooded the city's central Cathedral Square for the second night running, marching through streets and waving banners carrying slogans such as, "The people have awakened." One group tried to ...
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Arrest in cab umbrella slay
The man who police say fatally stabbed a livery cab driver in the eye with an umbrella was busted in Brooklyn yesterday.Shamel Allen, 28, was nabbed at 11:30 a.m. and charged with manslaughter in last Thursday’s slaying, police said.Orji-Ama Uro was driving Allen in the vicinity of Lott Avenue and Thomas Boyland Street in Brownsville when Allen plunged the tip of the umbrella into ...
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Feds Surveillance foiled NYSE attack
Secret US surveillance foiled an al Qaeda plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange, the FBI revealed to Congress yesterday.A Brooklyn accountant "cased" the stock exchange in 2008 under orders from a mysterious al Qaeda leader in Yemen known as "the Doctor," according to federal authorities.But the accountant and two other suspected terrorists were arrested before the plot ...
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Buffalo Zoo goes ape for the gorillas
The Buffalo Zoo is a historic landmark in Buffalo city. It is the third oldest zoo in the United States and has an amazing array of over 1000 species of animal. The zoo is also a tourist attraction, bringing in 400 000 visitors each year.
Zoos are an important educational facility for children, a means by which younger generations can see wild and endangered animals in real life, in an environment as close as is reasonably possible to what their natural surroundings would be, and by seeing a real-life image, rather than a picture in a text book, children develop a more intimate understanding of the challenges facing these rare and beautiful creatures. Read more
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