Syracuse News

Investigators are seeking to learn how a bin that appeared to contain clothing caught fire this morning outside the historic Gridley Building in downtown Syracuse.

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Gov. Andrew Cuomo will be in Syracuse Wednesday to promote his plan to create a new agency to address abuses among people with special needs in state care.

This former sheet metal factory at the northwest corner of Solar and West Division streets in Syracuse will be the new home of Bankers Healthcare Group.

Utica's F.X. Matt Brewing Co., maker of Saranac, is marking American Craft Beer Week this week with two "tap takeovers" at local bars.

Nathaniel R. Cosby, 37, of 128 N. Geddes St., and Shinyrra K. Legrand-Thomas, 19, of 254 W. Calthrop St., were arrested in the upper apartment of 89 E. Cayuga St.

Ronald Cottrell, 32, of 219 W. Ellis St., East Syracuse, was also charged in connection with a string of storage facility break-ins throughout Onondaga County, deputies said.

Some of the Syracuse area's top police officials remembered local officers who died in the line of duty during a National Law Enforcement Day ceremony today in the city's Forman Park on East Genesee Street.

A Syracuse woman was sentenced today to the maximum penalty of 2 1/3 to seven years in state prison for causing the death of a pedestrian in a DWI crash in March.

Ale 'n' Angus Pub, located at 238 Harrison St., Syracuse, is home to the New York Beef Council's 2012 Best NY Burger winner, the Power Play Burger.

Katie Feulner, with her daughters, Elizabeth and Madeline, signs in to vote at Fayetteville Elementary School Tuesday.

Scattered showers, perhaps accompanied by thunder, are on tap for the Syracuse area today, the National Weather Service says.

Members of the Syracuse General Hospital Nursing School class of 1952 are, sitting left to right Phyllis Irwin, Shirley North, Marion Diehl, Lucille Ripley.

James Karasek, manager of independent living services at Arise of Oswego County, said a bunch of volunteers from Arise and the First United Methodist Church in Oswego came together about five years ago to build ramps for people in Oswego County.

Monroe County Court Judge Frank Geraci Jr. is being nominated to serve as a federal district judge for a Rochester-based court in the Western District of New York.

Police have charged five men in connection with a violent armed robbery/home invasion at 143 West Matson Avenue in Syracuse on Sunday.

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A mobile command center for the Department of Financial Services stopped by Clinton Square on Monday to meet with homeowners in the process of foreclosure and to help those at risk.

A registered sex offender has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for beating a 12-year-old New York boy with a pool cue - a crime that was solved when the boy identified the man via Facebook photos.

If there's one thing I've learned covering this whole sordid Bernie Fine affair, it's that just when you think it's all over, someone comes along to smack you across the face for even thinking that.