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Incumbents run unopposed in village elections

Syracuse, NY -- Residents in the villages of Liverpool and North Syracuse went to the polls today to vote in races that featured incumbents who were running unopposed. In Liverpool, Mayor Gary C. White and trustees Robert Gaetano and Dennis Hebert ran for re-election. In North Syracuse, trustees Gary Butterfield and Alfred E. "Fred" Fergerson also ran for re-election. Judge Robert J. ...
Update Former Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll selling house moving to suburbs

Update: A previous version of this story incorrectly said former Syracuse Mayor Matt Driscoll plans to stay in the city. He is moving to Onondaga Hill. The error is the ...
Secy of Ed. says states can shield teachers from new evaluation for a full year

Terence Stamp doesn't think the new 'Man of Steel' stacks up Don’t expect to see Terence Stamp - who played baddie General Zod in ...
Yanks-Dodgers rained out twin bill Wednesday

NEW YORK -- Don Mattingly will have to wait one more day to make his managerial debut in the new Yankee Stadium. The Yankees' game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night has been postponed. The teams will play a day-night split-admission doubleheader on Wednesday. Hiroki Kuroda will start for the Yankees at 1:05 p.m. ET, and Tuesday's scheduled starter, Phil Hughes, will pitch the ...
JP Morgan Chase Corporate Challenge Syracuse How did your co-worker relative friend do

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The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

Political thriller or political satire? "The Manchurian Candidate" is both, and although it was made in 1962, it has lost none of its edge or any of its biting attacks on the American political circus. It feels just as taut, just as scathing, and just as paranoid as it did thirty-five years ago. "The Manchurian Candidate" is mostly a cinematic backlash against the absurdities of the McCarthy hear ... ...

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Agreement in Albany on helping ailing cities but no deals on casinos

Protesters sit outside the office of Independent Democratic Conference leader Sen. Jeffrey Klein, D-Bronx, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y., on Thursday, June 18, 2013. Protesters blocked the doorway to Klein's office to to urge Senate votes on several ...
Oneida County man charged with stealing lotto tickets beer cigarettes from store

Jonathan V. Evans, 29, of Richardson Avenue, was charged with three counts of third-degree burglary, one count of third-degree criminal mischief and three counts of petit ...
Utica man who waited to report son missing was present at death of another infant police...

Utica police Chief Mark Williams, reached by phone Tuesday night, said Jevon Wameling was with his girlfriend at the time when her baby died in ...
New York regulators fine Deloitte $10m over StanChart

Nikhil Kumar is The Independent's New York correspondent. He was formerly assistant editor on the foreign desk and has also done a variety of jobs on the city desk, where he wrote about markets, commodities and other business and economics ...
LGBTQ Muslims seek sexual asylum from persecution in Islamic countries

LGBTQ Muslims face intrusive applications for "sexual asylum," and struggle to reconcile same-sex relationships with traditional Islamic ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Billy Joel and Elton John end dispute at Songwriters Hall of Fame gala

Billy Joel and Elton John have finally ended their two-year long feud at the 44th annual Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City.

The tension started after an interview in 2011, when John, 66, told Rolling Stone magazine that Joel wasn't getting the necessary help he needed for his alcoholism, Us magazine reported.

The duo, who have toured together seven times over the years, continued to throw small jabs at one another in subsequent interviews.

However, both musicians addressed each other during their time onstage at the Thursday event.

When John accepted the ceremony's top award, the Johnny Mercer Award, he extended an olive branch, saying, "Mr. Joel, I haven't seen you tonight, but I love you dearly."

Later during the ceremony, Joel took the stage and sent a message back to John, assuring him that things were good between them. (ANI)