Cato News

When Gary Cole, highway superintendent for the Cayuga County town of Cato, grew frustrated over the town's health insurance plan at a board meeting last month, he blurted out his suspicion there was "a n***** in the woodpile." Later in the meeting he used the "n-word" again, according to staff writer Scott Rapp.

A local NAACP official, speaking tonight to the Cato town board, chided Highway Superintendent Gary Cole for using the "n-word'' at a public meeting last month.

Bo Pelini had his jaw set, voice rising. That look. "Notre Dame's got nothing on us," he said to Jordan Westerkamp.

Wind gusts as strong as 50 miles per hour are racing through Central New York. It is causing scattered power outages in some areas.