Syracuse News

With the Republican out of the race and unions lining up behind their candidate, national Democrats on Monday used a high-profile campaigner and ramped up get-out-the-vote efforts to try to grab a congressional seat in a district held for decades by the GOP.

Seven hostages were freed Monday morning after being held at gunpoint for almost six hours.

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The postal service has considered closing 370 branches nationwide. This includes the village post office in North Syracuse and Elmwood Station in Syracuse.

Syracuse A chance to honor our service veterans arrives today in Syracuse, as t his year's Veterans Parade kicks off in downtown Syracuse.

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The body of a state trooper killed in an on-duty accident in the Hudson Valley has been brought back to his northern New York hometown for burial.

As election results came in Tuesday, most of the crowd at Steve Kimatian's headquarters stayed glued to the TV.

The City of Syracuse will soon have a new mayor. Three candidates are vying for the position and hope voters are on their side today.

A Syracuse teenager is due in Onondaga County Court today to try for a second time to plead guilty to charges he falsely confessed to being the sniper shooter who murdered a neighbor in January.

Syracuse police and the FBI believe a man nicknamed "The Grandpa Bandit" wanted for holding up a Solvay Bank in Syracuse in September might be connected to 8 other bank robberies across the country.

In a historic victory, Democrat Stephanie Miner will be the 53rd mayor of Syracuse.

Evidence linking Bartholomew Smith to the rape of one neighbor in June 2008 will also conclusively link him to the murder of a second neighbor six months later, the prosecutor told a state Supreme Court jury today.

There were a few surprises in this year's local elections, particularly in Cicero's town and county races.

Arriving on schedule, Syracuse Democratic mayoral candidate Stephanie Miner, accompanied by her husband, walked into the voting booth at Nottingham High School at 1 this afternoon to cast her vote.

Authorities say a state transportation department employee has been struck and killed while directing traffic at a work zone in central New York.

Police are accusing a 22-year-old upstate New York man of hanging his girlfriend's four-month-old kitten with a belt and making a video of the animal struggling.

All lanes will reopen in the next week on a five-mile section of the New York State Thruway west of Syracuse, according to the state Thruway Authority.

Three candidates are vying to win today's election to replace Mayor Matt Driscoll, who has reached his term limit.