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Police blocked off the SUNY Morrisville campus after a 20-year-old man was shot inside the South Hall dormitory on Monday. (Finn Lincoln photo)
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Upstate hospital pair came to America where they could marry. ICE plans to send them back to Cuba: Two months after getting married in Clay, a gay couple from Cuba who work at SUNY Upstate Medical University were unexpectedly detained by ICE during what they thought would be their final check-in before receiving asylum. Gov. Kathy Hochul met with their family and colleagues, promising to help find legal representation for the men, who fled persecution in Cuba and now face possible deportation.
Man shot at SUNY Morrisville dorm expected to live: A 20-year-old man shot was Monday at a SUNY Morrisville dormitory. The man, who does not attend the college, was shot in the neck at about 3:15 p.m., officials said. He was taken by ambulance to Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse, and he was expected to survive. The shooting caused the college, as well as some nearby businesses in the village, to go into lockdown. Students were told to shelter in place.
Understaffed and unpaid, Syracuse air traffic controllers are pushed to limit during shutdown: Air traffic controllers at Syracuse Hancock International Airport are facing unprecedented stress during the federal government shutdown as they enter a second full week without being paid, according to their union. The team is working mandatory overtime shifts – six days per week and 10 hours per day – with only 54% of its authorized staff of certified air traffic controllers, a union official said. Meanwhile, they received a $0 paycheck last week. “Our controllers are tired, they’re scared, and they don’t know when their next paycheck will be,” a union official said…