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Downtown restaurant to open new location: LaToya Ricks works in the kitchen of her Erma’s Island Jamaican food stand in downtown Syracuse’s Salt City Market. Ricks will soon expand with a full-service Jamaican restaurant called Erma’s Bistro in Armory Square. Here are the details. (Don Cazentre photo)
The latest
State Police searching for missing 16-year-old girl from Oneida County: Police are asking for the public’s help to find a missing teen girl from Oneida County. Paige E. Roberts, 16, of Marcy, was last seen around 5 p.m. Tuesday when she left her home, according to Trooper Jennifer Jiron, a spokesperson for New York State Police. Anyone with information about her whereabouts is asked to contact State Police.
Federal shutdown delays heating aid that helps 52,000 households in CNY: The federal government shutdown has forced New York state to delay the opening of a program that helps low- and moderate-income residents pay their heating bills each winter. The application period for the federally funded Home Energy Assistance Program (HEAP) was due to begin Nov. 3 in the National Grid service area in Upstate New York. The state received more than $360 million last year for the federal heating aid program. Now, that aid is in jeopardy.
More districts to add cameras to catch drivers who go around stopped school buses: Three more Onondaga County school districts will add cameras to school buses to catch drivers who blow past stopped buses, bringing the total number of districts using the cameras to nine…