• Oneida County jury convicts Trenton town supervisor of child sex abuse

  the Utica Observer-Dispatch reports . Mark Scheidelman, 53, was convicted this afternoon of first-degree sexual abuse. He is a former Oneida County Republican Party chairman and Boy Scout leader. Jurors deliberated for a day and a half before reaching a verdict, the Observer-Dispatch ...

• Syracuse charter school foundation and city resolve dispute over tax exemption status

  Syracuse, NY - A dispute between a Syracuse charter school foundation and the city over tax exemption status was recently resolved in state Supreme Court. The Syracuse-based non-profit foundation that supports a network of charter schools, Terra Science and Education, Inc., filed a petition against the city in late April claiming that as a 501c(3) organization, it should not have to pay taxes ...

• Got a road trip this weekend Heres a game to help you pass the hours

  Memorial Day weekend is here, and with it the official start of the summer season. AAA says 31.2 million Americans will travel by car this Memorial Day weekend, packing up kids, luggage, snacks and a car-full of iPads, iPods, smart phones and in-car DVD players Road Trip Bingo (below) is a game designed to help make those hours in ...

• Bridge UJA-Federation of New Yorks Womens Philanthropy Bridge

  The 50th UJA-Federation of New ...

• Pharmaceutical co. ISTA pleads in NY federal case

  BUFFALO, N.Y. -; Drug-maker ISTA (IS'-tah) Pharmaceuticals has pleaded guilty in New York in a federal case involving its eye drug Xibrom (ZY'-brum) and has agreed to pay more than $30 ...

• Family friends mourn 14-year-old girl slain on Queens bus by gang bullet

  Daja Robinson The grief-stricken best friend of slain teenager Daja Robinson collapsed into tears at a funeral today – vowing to help her heartbroken family get through the tragedy."I'm gonna miss you baby - but I'll try to help [your] mommy be strong," pal Shaquana Almonds, 16, said between tears.She added, "Who would have known I’d never see my best friend ...

• Tot injured in stroller fall during robbery attempt

  A 2-year-old girl was injured when she fell out of her stroller during robbery attempt in Brooklyn Friday afternoon, cops said.The tot’s 29-year-old mother was pushing the stroller near Dekalb and Tompkins Avenues in Bedford-Stuyvesant at around 12:20 p.m. when the thief ran up and tried to snatch the woman’s purse from the handlebars of the stroller, cops said.The woman put a fight ...

• Actress Amanda Bynes accused of bong toss out NYC window

  In an image made from video, actress Amanda Bynes, center, wearing sweats and a blonde wig, is escorted after a Manhattan criminal court appearance on Friday May 24, 2013, in New York. Bynes was arrested Thursday evening and charged with reckless endangerment after police say she heaved a marijuana bong out of out of her Manhattan apartment ...

• New York sees more mortgage violations report

  NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that banks have violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing abuses, according ...

• Weiner vs. Quinn New York Citys TMI Primary

  Reuters New Yorkers -- they all have such interesting lives. This year, some of those lives are going to be on extraordinarily display in the political arena. Between newly announced mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner's extra-marital sexting and the impending June 11 release of City Council Speaker Christine ...

• Real Housewives Salary Dispute LuAnn de Lesseps Is New Yorks Lone Holdout

  that de Lesseps still refuses to sign a deal that would have her return to the reality series -- though, with production already underway, that offer is said to be for a diminished role than the one originally on the ...

• Firefighters respond to house fire on Davis Street in Syracuse

  Syracuse, NY -- Firefighters responded to a house fire in Syracuse this afternoon. Around 2:55 p.m. firefighters were called to 219 Davis St. after a caller reported smoke coming from the windows. The house is reportedly vacant, Onondaga County 911 dispatchers reported. The fire was out by 3:30 ...

• Its official President Obama nominates Ann Marie Buerkle to $155000 per year post

  President Barack Obama today sent the name of former U.S. Rep. Ann Marie Buerkle to the U.S. Senate as his nominee to serve as a Republican commissioner on the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Buerkle is pictured in September 2012 during her unsuccessful campaign to be re-elected to the 24th Congressional District ...

• Memorial Day A list of parades services across Central New York

  This weekend and Monday, dozens of Central New York communities will hold Memorial day parades and services. Above you'll find photos from parades and services last ...

• United offering more premium perks from New York

  United Airlines says it now offers flat-bed seats and on-demand personal entertainment systems in premium cabins on every international flight from New York area airports. No matter what the surveys say about the quality of its service, Chicago-based United Airlines is charging ahead with upgrades of its service in a variety of ways. Today, United bragged that it is now the only United ...

• US Park Police to end furloughs next week

  National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis says the furloughs will end on June 3, after just three days off, because the agency has found other ways to offset automatic budget cuts imposed by ...

• Port Authority fires treasurer 2 top staffers after accepting valuable gifts from vendors sources

  The Port Authority’s veteran treasurer and two of her top associates were summarily fired yesterday morning after it was revealed that they had accepted valuable gifts, meals and theater tickets from vendors doing business with the agency during their local and international travels, The Post has learned.The treasurer, Anne Marie Mulligan, a 35-year veteran, was dismissed, along with ...

• Sandy-damaged New York Aquarium reopens this weekend

  Playful sea lions and trusty penguins are welcoming visitors back to the New York Aquarium for the first time since the Coney Island marine haven was damaged by Superstorm Sandy.The shorefront aquarium will partially reopen on Saturday.Visitors will be able to peer down into pools containing walruses, harbor seals and other mammals. Sea lions will perform in the renovated aquatheater.And there ...

• Pedro Portugal Ecuadorean businessman found in New York after kidnapping

  NEW YORK – Police have rescued an Ecuadorean businessman who was kidnapped in New York City and held hostage for a month while his captors demanded his family pay ...

• Fitch Rates New York City NYs GO Bank Bonds AA Outlook Stable

  NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA' rating to bank bonds corresponding to the following New York City variable rate general obligation (GO) bonds: -- $275,000,000 GO bonds, fiscal 2006 series I, Subseries I-4, I-5, and I-6. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The ratings are being assigned in connection with issuance of letters of credit provided ...

• Exclusive New York claims more proof of bank mortgage abuses

  NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing ...

• Finch Paper changes CEOs

  Debabrata Mukherjee . Finch Paper reported $280 million of revenue in 2012. The mill has about 500 hourly workers and another 200 salaried employee, making it among the largest manufacturers in the 11-county Capital Region. Raccuia, a Wilton resident, was hired in February 2009--as the recession and Internet were beating margins to a pulp. He cut 100 jobs that year, ...

• Cicero-North Syracuse student suspended after speaking out against failed budget on Twitter

  Twitter about the district's failed 2013-14 school budget. Brown, who has never been in trouble with the district before, started a hashtag on Twitter Wednesday to discuss things the district could cut in its budget for next year. The ...

• Syracuse woman who saved her family from fire dies 10 years later in another fire

  Natasha McGlown was 13 when she saved her family from a house fire in 2002 but 10 years later she couldn't save herself when her own apartment caught fire, police ...

• Syracuse fourth-grader taken to hospital after incident on school bus

  Syracuse -- A 10-year-old girl was taken by ambulance to Upstate University Hospital Tuesday after an incident on a school bus at Dr. Weeks Elementary in Syracuse, police say. The girl, an Ethiopian whose family arrived in the United States from Kenya recently, was taken to the hospital as a precaution after she was kicked and choked by a 10-year-old boy, the girl's father said. The girl, ...

• Seneca County sheriff Search for missing Ithaca man suspended Friday due to weather

  A continued search for Christopher T. Dennis, who went canoeing alone on Cayuga Lake has been called off for the day due to increasing bad weather, Seneca County Sheriff Jack Stenberg ...

• Making the case for lower property values grievance day is coming up in Onondaga County

  Syracuse, NY - In retailing the busiest day of the year is called Black Friday, for property assessors the busiest is Grievance Day. This year grievance day for most municipalities is Tuesday. That's the day owners go before a local board of assessment review to make the case that their property assessment has been set too high. A sampling of tax assessors in Onondaga County said they ...

• Company news First Niagara Financial Group recognized by Preservation Association of Central New York

  Also in company news, McClurg Remodeling & Construction Services, American Fashion Network, Rural/Metro Medical Services, Meier Supply Company, Taylor-Brown Auxiliary, Le Moyne College, Michels ...

• Political newcomer Ronnie Bell to challenge Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon

  courtesy of Kate Szrom SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Ronnie Bell is jumping into the deep end of the pool with his first political campaign, in which he will challenge Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon to represent the Legislature's 15th District. Until a few days ago, Bell, a Democrat, had campaigned for a seat on the Syracuse school board. Having failed to win his party's ...

• Crystal Co. Exec Moves to Hub International in New York

  Chicago-based broker Hub International's Northeast division hired Scott Konrad as senior vice president and not-for-profit business practice leader. Based in Hub's New York City office, Konrad will be responsible to build, brand, grow and lead a specialty practice serving the insurance, risk management, and employee benefit needs of nonprofit organizations throughout Connecticut, New ...

• Palace Theatre collects $58000 at fundraising event

  Holly Brown, general manager of the Palace Theatre. A fundraiser generated $58,000 for The Palace Theatre in Albany, NY, officials said. The May 9 fundraiser, called Salute to the Palace, featured a live performance by Sandy Hacketts Rat Pack Show. The fundraiser is an important event for the non-profit theater, which is on track to finishing its second consecutive season with a surplus after ...

• Motion Filtering Ability Correlated to High IQ

  Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York state say they can predict a person’s intelligence quotient, or IQ, using some simple visual tests. Test subjects were asked to watch brief video clips of black and white bars moving across a computer screen within three different sized circles. They were asked to identify in which direction the bars drifted. The exercise ...

• Ringleader of burglary crew that murdered NYPD officer Figoski convicted

  Nelson Morales A Brooklyn jury convicted the ringleader of a burglary crew that murdered a NYPD cop on felony murder and burglary charges today.Nelson Morales organized the armed crew that broke into the home of an East New York drug dealer in 2011. One of the other burglars, Lamont Pride, was convicted of fatally shooting responding police officer Peter Figoski earlier this year.Figoski's ...

• Woman injured in last weeks Conn. train crash suing Metro-North Railroad for negligence

  BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Attorneys for a 65-year-old woman injured in last week's train crash in Connecticut say they have filed a lawsuit alleging negligence by the Metro-North Railroad.Attorney Joel Faxon says the suit was filed Friday in federal court in Bridgeport to gain access to witnesses and allow victims and their families to be involved in the investigation. He said it was the first ...

• Bloomberg Public financing wont solve Albanys scandal problem

  Placing himself on the opposite side of Gov. Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg argued today that public financing won't get rid of the corruption that pervades Albany. "Public financing wouldn't have cured anything," the mayor declared on his weekly WOR radio show."What is clear is that they have a lot of corruption. Most of the things that have been in the paper would not be cured ...

• Unusual condition seen before Conn. train wreck

  Train service from New York to Boston was back on schedule Wednesday on one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways, five days after a derailment in Connecticut injured scores of commuters and damaged ...

• Citi Bikes land in New York what to expect from the long-awaited scheme

  New York in the early hours of Friday, greeted with a combination of curiosity, puzzlement, and not a little suspicion.Which is hardly surprising, as it's not been plain cycling so far. Residents of the West Village think the docking stations will destroy the area's historic character. In Brooklyn, treasured parking spots have been usurped. Tabloid columnists fear the city's ...

• About New York Turning Lives Around and Saving Money Too

  "I'd have them come around the store and order a sandwich or something, and stuff it in the sandwich when I wrapped it," Mr. Ramos said this week. "Or when I gave a book of matches. Be creative when giving it to them, instead of just being ...

• Two Siro’s veterans have big plans for former Joe Collins restaurant in Saratoga

  Sean Sheehan , another Siro's veteran. Dillon tells me the pair plan to open when they receive a liquor license, which he expects is four or five weeks out. They are leasing their new place, Jack Dillon's Farm to Fork Cuisine, from El Mondo Properties ...

• Albany County starts all over on SCCC contract

  Albany County's newest construction job has an unusual twist: Everyone already knows the winning bid. County legislators voted May 23 to re-bid a contract to create new classrooms ...

• Onondaga County Grand Jury clears Sheriffs deputy involved in shooting of handcuffed...

  shooting of a handcuffed burglary suspect by an Onondaga County Sheriff's deputy on May 7 has been ruled justified by a grand jury. The shooting happened after Sheriff's detectives took Arcadio Figueroa, 58, to his residence at 207 Ervingham Road to recover allegedly stolen property, according to the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office. Despite being handcuffed, Figueroa ...

• Chase Bank plans four more South Florida branches BankUnited expands in New York

  While JPMorgan Chase Bank is continuing its Florida branch building boom with four more local locations, BankUnited has its eyes set on a new New York City branch. Chase Bank (NYSE: JPB) filed plans with regulators for branches at 4501 Donald Ross Road in Palm Beach Gardens, Miller Drive and Southwest 93rd Court in Miami, Saddle Club Road and Indian Trace in Weston, and 7900 Griffin Road in ...

• There Are As Many Reasons As The Population of New York For Using “Dictionary of Numbers”

  Dictionary of Numbers is a Chrome extension that mitigates this condition by allowing users to insert equivalences in real-world terms. It would be one thing to just mention that a military measure would require $8.2 billion; but it adds a whole new layer of context to mention that that a military measure would require the net worth of Fox head honcho Rupert ...

• 14 more apartments open in renovated downtown Albany building

  Another renovation project in Albany, NY created 14 more apartments downtown, along with commercial space. Two historic, five-story buildings at 522-524 Broadway were converted into one- and two-bedroom apartments and 18,000 square feet of commercial space ...

• Syracuse flights diverted Thursday to Albany Rochester

  A Delta Air Lines flight from Atlanta lands at Syracuse Hancock International Airport in a 2012 file photo. Delta was one of several airlines that diverted flights headed to Syracuse on ...

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