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What was that “suspicious” package? Syracuse police used a small drone and a robot to investigate a suspicious box found strapped to a tree near City Hall on Monday, closing nearby streets and evacuating City Hall. So, what did the box turn out to be? It was a noise monitoring device related to the Interstate 81 project, officials said. A contractor for the state Department of Transportation installed the monitoring device, which consists of a microphone duct-taped to a box, last Thursday, Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh said. So, what caused the confusion and the evacuation?
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Once a struggling mother of 5, Brenda Mims has fed Syracuse’s hungry for decades (Trailblazers and Trendsetters): Operations supervisor Brenda Mims has worked at the Samaritan Center for nearly three decades, handing out hundreds of people in need of a meal twice a day, seven days a week. Their motto? No one goes hungry.
Nurse gives emotional testimony in Syracuse murder trial: A visiting nurse discovered a horrific scene in August, 2022, when she entered a Syracuse apartment for a routine check-up and found two murder victims and a severely disabled 6-year-old boy who had been alone for three days. Nurse Norma Anne Fitzgerald gave emotional testimony on Monday in the trial of three men accused of killing Alexis Sellin and Jamie Crawford, describing how she found the child alive but severely dehydrated, unable to move or call for help.
Man who killed Mattydale store owner was shoplifting nitrous oxide, deputies say: A man who fatally shot the owner of a Mattydale convenience store Sunday was trying to shoplift two canisters of nitrous oxide, deputies said. The gunman, Alec Grieger, 30, later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after deputies located him at a nearby residence…