Onondaga County News

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.

Polls remain open statewide until 9 p.m. on this Election Day. Newsradio 570 WSYR has complete election coverage starting at 7 p.m. This year, Onondaga county is about halfway through rolling out the new optical scanner voting machines.

The OnCenter is getting a bailout from Onondaga County. Legislators approved a $575,000 check yesterday to help the complex out of its financial hole.

Alexandra Patz watch as Jessina Carroll, a nurse at the Ryan Chelsea-Clinton Community Health Center, administer a swine flu vaccine nasal mist to her 4-year-old son, Douglas, in New York on Thursday.

The Onondaga County Legislature approved $575,000 in funding on Wednesday to keep the Oncenter from sinking deeper into debt.

Voting machines at the wrong fire station, a ballot that needed to be switched and a 45-minute wait for the key to open a polling station, were some of the problems the Onondaga County Board of Elections dealt with in the first hour of voting this morning.

GOP looks to gain a seat in the Onondaga County Legislature. Tuesday, November 3, 2009 ----------------- SYRACUSE, N.Y -- The Onondaga County Legislature will be staying in Republican hands.

Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Bill Meyer is in a too-close-to-call contest with Democratic challenger Ed Szczesniak with 78 percent of the vote counted.

Members of a grassroots community group vowed Sunday to get more Onondaga County children enrolled in a public health insurance plan and stop the Onondaga County Sheriff's Department from selling arrest records to business and landlords.

A Syracuse community group wants the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office to stop selling people's arrest records, saying employers and landlords use them unfairly to deny jobs and apartments.

Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 10:43 p.m. DeWitt Police are investigating an armed robbery.

A Syracuse man was arrested Friday night shortly after Onondaga County sheriff's deputies allege he robbed a Geddes pizza shop.

The federal government is giving Onondaga County $1 million to coordinate children's mental health services across its social services, probation and mental health departments.

Designed by Lake Architectural and built by MCK Building Associates Inc. , the Marcellus Free Library, which has been open for more than one year, came with a price tag of $2.8 million, the story stated.

When defense lawyer Bill Rose stepped to the defense table with a DWI client one morning recently, he admitted he had not had a chance to talk to Assistant District Attorney Frank Pelosi in the previous two weeks as directed by the judge.

Around 350 people received their seasonal flu shot today at Onondaga County's first flu clinic.

Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney supports a plan to use funds from the county's hotel room occupancy tax fund to help the financially strapped Oncenter pay its bills.

A 20-year-old Syracuse man faces up to 15 years in prison following his conviction today in Onondaga County Court on a felony weapon charge.

Officials from Oncenter, the nonprofit corporation that runs Onondaga County's convention and entertainment facilities, asked county legislators for a $575,000 bailout Tuesday to help pay this year's bills.

Local police agencies that use the Taser electronic control device are being told by the manufacturer to avoid shooting the device at a suspect's chest.