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  • Stirpe Magnarelli still support Sheldon Silver as New York Assembly speaker

    Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com Syracuse, N.Y. -- Two Syracuse-area state lawmakers say they still support New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who ...

  • Oswego County firefighters battle apartment fire in Granby

    Granby, NY -- Oswego County firefighters are battling a large apartment fire on county Route 8 west of Fulton. There were no reported injuries in the 5 p.m. fire near 1592 county Route 8, between Somers Road and Ceder Wood Drive, a 911 dispatcher said. No one was believed to be inside the three-apartment building. The fire was still raging at 5:20 ...

  • Portion of South Warren Street in Syracuse will close for most of Friday

    Syracuse, NY - South Warren Street between East Fayette and East Washington streets will be closed from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Friday, according to a traffic advisory sent out by the city. The portion of street will be closed due to construction in the area. South Warren Street is expected to reopen at 6 ...

  • Syracuse-area officials cautiously optimistic about Cuomos Tax Free NY

    David Lassman | dlassman@syracuse.com SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Several Syracuse-area politicians and business leaders expressed enthusiasm today for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's new business development initiative, Tax Free NY, with one caveat: It can't repeat the mistakes of the Empire Zone program. "I think it's important to make sure that the way we do this doesn't lead to the same ...

  • Boy 12 first to find pirate treasure in New York scavenger hunt

    A New York 12-year-old won $10,000 worth of actual pirate treasure in a scavenger hunt organized to promote a Discovery Times Square exhibit. Sebastian Bekkaoui was one of 700 participants to receive the first clue Friday, and he and his mother, Sheila Doherty, 45, followed the clues to city locations where people in pirate garb handed out fresh clues. Bekkaoui and Doherty were the first to ...


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Movie Review

Armageddon

"Armageddon," Michael Bay's ear-splitting, mind-numbing space adventure about a group of average Joe's trying to save the world from a meteor, is two and a half hours of sensory overload. Too long, too loud, and featuring more camera movement and fast edits than ten other movies put together, "Armageddon" will be a powerful test of how far action directors can push the line before they wear audien ... ...

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  • Weiner gets started stumping in NYC mayoral race

    New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner discusses his policies with a passerby while greeting commuters during a campaign event outside a Harlem subway station, Thursday, May 23, 2013 in New York. Weiner, who ran for mayor in 2005 and nearly did in 2009, is getting into the race to succeed three-term Mayor Michael Bloomberg about two years after a series of tawdry tweets, and obfuscating ...

  • Bruins Live Blog B’s Looking To Sweep Rangers In New York

    5 p.m.: It’s hard to believe it, but tonight, the Bruins will be playing for the sweep. There is no way to track down every prediction for this series, but it is safe to assume that the people who called for a Boston sweep account for less than 1 percent of the prognosticators. With two teams seemingly so evenly matched, a six-game series seemed to be the shortest route possible to the ...

  • Man says missing students parents harassing him

    GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -- A man who was one of the last people to see an Indiana University student before she vanished in 2011 says the student's parents are harassing ...

  • Bus chaperone explodes at NY kids after candy toss

    GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) -- Police say a chaperone on a bus taking boys home from a party lit into them with a death-threatening, foul-mouthed tirade after one boy threw a piece of ...

  • New York mayoral candidate Weiner uses Pittsburgh as backdrop

    New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, a former U.S. House member and tweeter of lewd selfies, inexplicably splashed a photograph of Pittsburgh's Downtown across his campaign ...

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