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Margaritas out of an ice cream machine? It looks like soft-serve ice cream, and it pours like soft-serve ice cream. But no. It’s a margarita. Soft-serve margaritas — like the one shown above from Boom Boom Mex Mex in Camillus — are the latest viral food trend bouncing around TikTok and Instagram. Think frozen cocktail meets soft-serve swirl dessert. Now, two Central New York spots are serving them. (Charlie Miller photo)
The latest
Syracuse judge gives Nob Hill owners an ultimatum:More than 50 families forced out by a deadly fire at Nob Hill apartments have been living without their belongings for over a month—sleeping on air mattresses and camping chairs while their furniture sits untouched in undamaged apartments. Syracuse City Court Judge Shadia Tadros ordered the complex’s owners to allow tenants access within two weeks or face $500-per-tenant weekly fines, potentially totaling $50,000 a week.
Girl obsessed with Columbine, Sandy Hook, among 3 teens accused of planning middle-school shooting: Three Oneida County middle schoolers who were caught this weekend planning a school shooting had access to weapons and planned to attack the school during lunch for mass casualties, according to court documents. The three students — two 13-year-olds, a boy and a girl, and a 14-year-old girl — were arrested this weekend by the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office. The 14-year-old’s mother and another student told authorities the girl had recently become obsessed with the 1999 Columbine school shooting.
Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud diagnosed with brain cancer, steps down: Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud announced today he was diagnosed with brain cancer and will step down effective immediately. He will no longer take over as president at University of Michigan, as he had planned, according to the university. Mike Haynie will take over at SU starting Wednesday. “I am approaching this with optimism, with determination, and with full confidence in the people who are caring for me,” Syverud said…