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Baldwinsville Liverpool North Syracuse school boards to meet tonight North Meetings
The Baldwinsville, Liverpool and North Syracuse school boards will meet tonight. Voters in all three districts go to the polls Tuesday to vote on school budgets, board of education members and propositions. Here is a list of other municipal meetings this week in the northern suburbs of Onondaga ...
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Todays obituaries Paul Wellingtons landscaping masterpieces can be found all around Onondaga County
Paul Wellington, 53, died Wednesday, May 15. 2013. He received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences School. He utilized his knowledge and skills as an agronomist, worked in several nursery and garden centers in the Syracuse area and then created his own business, Lake Country Landscaping. He was also property and vineyard manager at Hobbit ...
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Court Case Winds Down In New Yorks Stop-And-Frisk Challenge
Closing arguments are set to take place Monday in the federal class action trial involving New York City's stop-and-frisk policy. The trial has been going on for two months in Manhattan. Plaintiffs in Floyd v. City of New York claim the New York Police Department, its supervisors and its union pressured police officers to stop, question and frisk hundreds of thousands of people each year, ...
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Yahoo takes big leap with $1.1B deal for Tumblr
Commuters who manage to make it from southwest Connecticut to New York City for work should consider staying in the Big Apple all week as crews begin rebuilding 2,000 feet of track following a commuter ...
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Albany law firm adds partner--and more
Paula Barbaruolo has gained a partner for her law firm, dove deeper into bankruptcy work and added new practice areas. Barbaruolo has sold half her Latham law firm ...
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National Grid to announce $300000 grant for Camillus Mills project
Camillus, NY--National Grid Monday will announce the details of a $300,000 brownfield redevelopment grant for Camillus Mills, the old Camillus Cutlery factory in the village of Camillus. The money will be used to offset the costs of rehabbing the former factory through environmental remediation and redevelopment, the company said in a press release.The announcement will be made at 1 p.m. at the ...
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Traffic advisory Franklin Street in Armory Square closed today
Water main break in Armory Square at the intersectiEllon of Walton and Franklin Streets. Matthew Heath, Armory Square resident, takes off his boots to walk to his car in the flooded ...
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New York Minute Scandals in Albany erode public confidence poll says
state government is getting worse after a series of corruption scandals in Albany. Assemblyman Vito Lopez, accused of sexual harassment of his staff, officially leaves ...
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Anti-Taliban leader among 14 killed in suicide bombing in Afghanistan
The leader of a northern Afghan provincial council was among 14 people killed in a suicide bombing Monday, officials said. Officials said Rasul Mohseni, considered the most powerful man in Baghlan province who once led a revolt against Afghanistan's former Taliban regime, was killed along with four bodyguards, three police officers and six civilians, The New York Times reported. Five ...
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Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne attend event together
Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne attend the premiere of the motion picture crime comedy "Seven Psychopaths", at the Bruin Theatre in the Westwood section of Los Angeles on October 1, 2012. UPI/Jim ...
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New York City shocked as anti-gay hate crimes come out of closet
USA As the Big Apple struggles to come to terms with the murder of a gay man in Greenwich Village on Saturday, an uncomfortable question emerges: Are Americans less tolerant of gay lifestyles than the recent spate of same-sex union legislation indicates? The brutal slaying marked the 22nd hate crime targeting gays in New York City this year, compared to 13 incidents at the same time last ...
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Cops Western NY bar owner found slain in his home
KENMORE, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities say the death of a bar owner whose body was found inside his Buffalo-area home is being investigated as a ...
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Patchwork plan in place to replace train service
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Metro-North says its morning commute in Connecticut is going as well as can be expected following Friday's train collision outside Bridgeport that has shut down service in that ...
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Andrew Cuomo getting his popularity back
Andrew Cuomo is beginning to recover some of the popularity he lost over the gun control issue. The Journal is reporting the Siena College poll that will be released today shows Cuomo's popularity ...
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Assemblyman will resign today amid sexual harassment scandal
report by the Associated Press . Democrat Vito Lopez of Brooklyn, who is not charged with any crimes, has been under pressure to resign following reports by a special prosecutor and ethics commission involving allegations with four of Lopez's female staff ...
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Average CEO salary climbs 3.6
No need to cry for your average corporate CEO. With a compensation package of $10 million, the boss is just fine. Our online affiliate Upstart takes a look, and considers other things that have surpassed the 10 million ...
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Baker McCullough to lead new Saratoga Springs restaurant
Chef Jason Baker (left) and Paul McCullough will team up at a new Saratoga Springs restaurant. Experimental chef Jason Baker and Paul McCullough, the former manager of Creo and McGuires, will open 15 Church in Saratoga Springs, NY. The restaurant is backed by developer Tom Burke of Malta-based Burke Cos. Burke paid $440,000 for the 1870s-era, three-story building and property at 15 Church St. ...
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Anheuser-Busch sued by New York distributor
McCraith Beverages, a beer and wine distributor in New York, is suing Anheuser-Busch for assigning new beers to a rival distributor. In the lawsuit, McCraith alleges it was granted exclusive distribution rights between 1994 and 2004 to distribute Rolling Rock, Stella Artois, Becks, Bass and other beers by Labatt USA, which was later bought by InBev USA, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. In ...
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Most voters believe government is becoming more dysfunctional poll
ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo might think "government is working again," but a new survey out today shows the public isn't so sure. In the Siena College survey, more than two-thirds, or 67 percent, of registered voters say government is becoming more dysfunctional every day while a quarter, or 26 percent, say it's more effective. And after the spate of lawmaker arrests and a ...
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Live QA with Green Partys Howie Hawkins
By Mike Greenlar | mgreenlar@syracuse.com Syracuse, NY - Join us for a live chat with Green Party activist Howie Hawkins over lunch today. Hawkins is trying to decide whether to run for Syracuse mayor this year. Discuss the pros and cons with him in a live chat at 11:30 a.m. He will also take questions on issues, including campaign finance reform, in the wake of ongoing Albany corruption ...
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Knicks Acquire Four-Time All-Star Carmelo Anthony
from Minnesota. At 26 years old, Carmelo is in the prime of his NBA career having already established himself as a one of the games elite players and the opportunity to add him to our roster was one we could not pass up, Walsh said. I feel we now have a great frontcourt tandem in Amare and Carmelo and this is an exciting day for the New York Knicks and all our fans. It is extremely difficult ...
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NY Knicks vs. Miami Heat Sweepstakes Official Rules
NY KNICKS VS. MIAMI HEAT SWEEPSTAKES (The Sweepstakes) OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. 1. PERIOD: Sweepstakes begins at 12:00pm (noon) Eastern Time (ET) on Monday, January 24, 2011 and ends at 8:00pm ET on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 (the Sweepstakes Period). 2. ELIGIBILITY: Sweepstakes is open to ...
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Knicks Roster Coming Together
The New York Knicks roster is starting to fill out nicely. A day after the Knicks officially obtained five-time All-Star Amare Stoudemire, the team announced the acquisition of Anthony Randolph, Ronny Turiaf and Kelenna Azubuike from Golden State in a sign-and-trade deal for David Lee on Friday. The Knicks roster, including the three drafted rookies, now stands at 12. This trade gives us an ...
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Knicks Complete Sign Trade for Stoudemire
has been officially acquired from the Phoenix Suns, via sign-and trade, in exchange for a protected future second-round draft selection. Stoudemire, 6-10, 249-pounds, has career averages of 21.4 points, 8.9 rebounds, 1.40 blocks and 34.3 minutes in 516 career games (499 starts) in eight NBA seasons with the Phoenix Suns. The Lake Wales, FL-native has been named an NBA All-Star five times and ...
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Finance minister says Jerusalem will always be Israeli capital
Jerusalem will always be the capital of Israel, never the capital of a future Palestinian state, Israeli Finance Minister Yair Lapid said. "Jerusalem is not a place, Jerusalem is an idea. Jerusalem is the capital of the Israeli state," Lapid said in an interview with The New York Times. An interim Palestinian state should be created in the West Bank, with final borders drawn up in ...
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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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