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Your Comments on Schumer and vacant gas stations Perfect example of government overreach
Sen. Charles Schumer's visit to urge the owners of two vacant gas stations to clean up and work with city hall fuels reaction from syracuse.com ...
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Cops bust man accused of stabbing cab driver in the eye with umbrella
Terence Stamp doesn't think the new 'Man of Steel' stacks up Don’t expect to see Terence Stamp - who played baddie General Zod in ...
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Former New York City Councilman Pedro Gautier Espada Sentenced to Six Months’ Imprisonment
Earlier today, Pedro Gautier Espada was sentenced before Judge Frederic Block in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York, to six months’ imprisonment, to be followed by six months’ home confinement and one year of supervised release, for theft of federal funds from Bronx-based non-profit healthcare clinics, Soundview Healthcare Network ("Soundview") and for failing to ...
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Cuomo leaders seeking deals to end 2013 session
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo and legislative leaders have met behind closed-doors in attempts to conclude major deals in the final days of the 2013 ...
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Wilson Nobel winner for physics dies in Maine
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- Physicist Kenneth Wilson, who earned a Nobel prize for pioneering work that changed the way physicists think about phase transitions, has died in Maine, where he retired to enjoy kayaking with his wife. He was ...
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NY Senate passes bill to make electronic monitor tampering a crime
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Legislation that would make tampering with an electronic monitoring bracelet a felony passed in the New York State Senate today. Under current law, tampering can be a violation of parole or pre-sentence release, but it is not a separate crime. The legislation is prompted by ...
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Protesters arrested blocking door at NY Capitol
Police arrested 21 protesters who demanded the state Legislature pass bills on campaign finance reform, transgender rights, farm worker wages, women's rights, decriminalizing marijuana and prohibiting ...
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3-year-old Syracuse boy fell from unscreened window while briefly unattended family says
The apartment complex located at 300 W. Ostrander Ave., where a 3-year-old fell from a second floor window and is now in critical condition. Mike Greenlar | ...
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Solvay cogeneration plant to close lay off 24
Syracuse Energy Corp., a coal-burning cogeneration plant in Solvay, will close in September. The plant is owned by GDF Suez Energy North America, of ...
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North Syracuse residents to vote today on revised budget
revised budget for the 2013-14 school year. Superintendent Kim Dyce Faucette has held a public hearing, a news conference and has answered numerous questions from community members regarding the revised budget. She ...
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Transit cop busted in alleged drunken spat over broken remote control
Young at heart: Carmen Electra channels her 20s at '21 & Over' party Carmen Electra fit in with the 20-something crowd at Haze Nightclub at ...
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Police rescue woman who threatened to jump off LES high-rise
Terence Stamp doesn't think the new 'Man of Steel' stacks up Don’t expect to see Terence Stamp - who played baddie General Zod in ...
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SoHo club where Chris Brown Drake brawled can keep liquor license
Terence Stamp doesn't think the new 'Man of Steel' stacks up Don’t expect to see Terence Stamp - who played baddie General Zod in ...
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New York police sued over surveillance of Muslims
They accused the police of trampling on religious freedoms and constitutional guarantees of equality.The surveillance by the NYPD's intelligence division has extended ...
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Rich New York City Couple Allowed Their Children To Beat Up Undocumented Nanny Lawsuit Alleges
Undocumented Chilean nanny Felicitas del Carmen Villanueva Garnica filed a lawsuit this week against a New York City socialite couple who she alleges forced her to work 12-hour days and allowed their children to beat her, according to ...
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Labor Seeks Influence in New York’s Mayoral Race
In a war room high above Lower Manhattan, leaders of the http://www.uft.org/">United Federation of Teachers are plotting a comeback. After more than a decade of sitting out the fiercest race in town the union is expected on Wednesday to throw its sophisticated political machine behind a candidate for mayor of New York ...
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New NYC evacuation zones include almost 3 million people
NEW YORK Nearly 3 million New Yorkers' homes are now in evacuation zones that cover more than a third of the city's population, under new maps released Tuesday. In the wake of Superstorm Sandy, officials said last month, the number of zones would double and encompass about 600,000 more residents. Few storms are likely to require evacuating all six new zones, and the scheme is designed ...
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Former WRVO General Manager John Krauss dies at 64
John Krauss , a longtime staple of public broadcasting in Central New York, has passed away. The former WRVO general manager and on-air host died Monday, June 17, in Oswego at the age of 64. He retired in 2010, after 14 years as GM and longer as the host as "The WRVO Playhouse," a nightly rebroadcast of national programs from the golden age of radio. Krauss was the first person on ...
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Tied to rope Madison County deputy rescues suicidal woman from Chittenango Falls
Courtesy of the Madison County Sheriff's Office Cazenovia, NY -- A Madison County deputy, tied to a rope, rescued a suicidal woman late last week who threatened to jump off a cliff at Chittenango Falls state park. Deputies were called to the top of the gorge after a woman climbed over the fence on a cliff about 150 feet above the base of the falls, Undersheriff John Ball said in a news ...
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Development agency still eying eminent domain to acquire Hotel Syracuse
The Syracuse Industrial Development Agency met with its attorneys behind closed doors Tuesday to discuss taking ownership of the historic hotel by eminent ...
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New York lawmakers restore money for disabled that they cut just three months ago
Albany, N.Y. -- New York lawmakers this week voted unanimously to restore up to $90 million in money they had cut from programs for the developmentally disabled just three months ago. The New York State Senate approved the change today, 62 to 0. The New York State Assembly approved the bill 140 to 0 on Monday. In late march, the legislature approved cutting $90 million out of privately-run ...
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Off-track betting off the table for Syracuse for now
Albany, N.Y. -- A proposal to allow Syracuse officials to decide if off-track betting parlors should open in the city will not pass the New York State Assembly this session, according to Assemblyman Bill Magnarelli. Magnarelli, D-Syracuse, said there were "internal concerns" from other members of the Democratic-controlled Assembly that couldn't be worked out before the ...
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Company news Sean Fahey has been appointed as the assistant principal at Camillus Middle School
assistant principal/district data coordinator. Fahey, a graduate of West Genesee is currently a district data coordinator at OCM BOCES. He earned a bachelor's degree in vocational technical education, a master degree in education, and his certificate of advanced study in educational administration from SUNY Oswego. ...
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Radio programmes that address global issues honoured by UNNew York Festivals Awards
18 June 2013 – A message of hope from a boy on the war-torn streets of Kabul, a profile of Danish efforts to help the elderly live the way they choose and an investigative story on the cruel reality of human trafficking are the winners of this year’s awards for outstanding radio programming presented by the United Nations as part of the 2013 New York Festivals Awards. ...
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NY regulators fault Deloittes bank consulting
ALBANY, N.Y. -; New York regulators have reached agreement for Deloitte Financial Advisory Services to pay $10 million and cease consulting for one year at state-regulated banks to settle an investigation into ...
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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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