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Syracuse, N.Y. – In a surprisingly partisan vote, Onondaga County legislators on Tuesday failed to approve a $1 million settlement that would have ended a decades-long legal battle over a 1987 murder case. Only eight legislators voted in favor of settling a civil rights lawsuit brought by the estate...

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. On Jan. 16, a local advocacy group in Syracuse filed a state lawsuit against Micron Technology to address concerns of potential environmental and local impacts of the company’s planned “megafab” – an $100 billion investment...

Syracuse, N.Y. ― A Syracuse woman was sentenced to 22 years in prison Monday for fatally stabbing a man after admitting to the killing in recorded jail calls. Destany Widger, 24, previously admitted to stabbing Jamar Martin, 32, multiple times with a folding knife inside 306 Basin St. on March 20, 2024. She pleaded...

On Tuesday at 6:11 p.m. the National Weather Service released a special weather statement until 8:15 p.m. for Yates, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Steuben, Schuyler, Chemung, Tompkins, Cortland, Tioga and Broome counties. "Snow Showers and Isolated Snow Squalls This Evening * An area of snow showers will move eastward...

For months, a 55-year-old widow in upstate New York chose to sleep beside her husband’s grave rather than in a shelter bed, clinging to the last place that felt like […]

Syracuse, N.Y. — A Massachusetts man is facing a federal charge after he allegedly stabbed a State Police investigator last week in Syracuse. Cedric Cundiff, 67, was charged with assaulting a federal officer. The investigator was deputized at the time as a member of a U.S. Marshals Service task force.

Syracuse, N.Y. — A driver in a stolen minivan fleeing Onondaga County Sheriff Office deputies died early Tuesday morning when the vehicle crashed into a telephone pole in Syracuse. Around 2:30 a.m., deputies attempted to stop the minivan on Avery Avenue, but the driver failed to stop, according to...

TAKE 5 top prize ticket sold in Rochester Rochester, NY – A popular grocery store in northwest Rochester became the site of a winning lottery purchase after a top-prize TAKE 5 ticket was sold in the Feb. 2 evening drawing. The New York Lottery reported that a ticket worth $10,058.50…

Camillus, N.Y. -- State and local officials have approved more than $10 million in grants and tax breaks for a proposed $52 million housing and retail development across from the popular Township 5 complex and Costco between Routes 5 and 173. The Church Street Station project, developed by Joe Goethe...

Micron’s arrival in upstate New York brings with it the promise of tens of thousands of jobs and economic growth throughout the region. Some community members, however, are wary of the massive chipmaker’s commitment to those promises. That’s why a new coalition launched just days after the groundbreaking to ensure...