Panel will start mapping out growth strategy for St. Lawrence County
pCANTON — Members of an advisory committee are scheduled to meet next week to start mapping out ways to make the ideas in a new economic development study turn into reality./ppThe 20-member...
View ArticleFactory Street reconstruction project expected to resume in March
pWATERTOWN — The $11.9 million Factory Street reconstruction project soon will be back in full force./ppWork along the half-mile project is expected to resume during the first week of...
View ArticleSergeant Major of the Army talks service’s image with Fort Drum soldiers
pFORT DRUM — The public’s perception of the Army isn’t the best, according to the service’s top enlisted soldier, but that perception can be changed by every...
View ArticleMassena Central School District addresses incident involving hockey player
pMASSENA — Massena Central School Superintendent Patrick A. Brady says a recent incident involving a member of the boys’ varsity hockey team gave the school an opportunity to...
View ArticleWife crashes her own funeral, horrifying her husband, who had paid to have...
pNoela Rukundo sat in a car outside her home, watching as the last few mourners filed out. They were leaving a funeral - her funeral./ppFinally, she spotted the man she’d been waiting for....
View ArticleFDNY: 1 dead, 2 seriously hurt in Manhattan crane collapse
pNEW YORK — One person died and two others were seriously injured when a crane collapsed in Lower Manhattan, smashing the roofs of parked cars as it crashed onto the street, authorities...
View ArticleObama to Propose a Fee on Oil to Pay for Transportation Projects
pWASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s budget request to Congress will include a new fee on oil companies, requiring them to pay $10 to the federal government for every barrel of...
View ArticleSuper Bowl ads go for the safety
pNEW YORK — Talking animals, celebrity cameos and crowd-pleasing rock songs: This year’s Super Bowl advertisers are sticking to the classics in their efforts to win over Big Game...
View ArticleAfter Planned Parenthood closures, poor women started having more babies
pSince Texas slashed funding to Planned Parenthood in 2011, more than half the state’s abortion clinics have shuttered -- and data show births among poor women have surged./ppResearchers...
View ArticleAfghan Taliban close ranks around new leader
pKANDAHAR, AFGHANISTAN — Afghanistan’s Taliban are closing ranks around their new leader after months of infighting that followed the death of Mullah Mohammad Omar, which could...
View ArticleLouisville announces postseason ban for men’s basketball
pLOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY — Louisville has announced a postseason ban for its men’s basketball team amid ongoing investigations into a sex scandal in which an escort alleged that a...
View ArticleVW’s two-front fight: U.S. regulators, German unions
pAs Volkswagen brawls with U.S. regulators over its cheating on emissions tests, the automaker faces a different fight back home: Labor leaders are questioning cost-saving measures that could free up...
View ArticleThere’s a rift opening on how the US should handle women and military drafts
pWASHINGTON — As the U.S. military prepares to open all jobs to women beginning this year, a rift has emerged: Key decision-makers in the Defense Department and Congress seem to agree that...
View ArticleBernie Sanders’ most radical move: running for president as a Democrat
pThere he was, trotting up the stairs of the New Hampshire secretary of state’s office surrounded by cheering supporters. Bernie Sanders, best known as America’s unapologetic...
View ArticleWhy is the U.S. still sitting on $4 billion in Madoff money?
pThere’s a $4 billion pot of cash at the Department of Justice for victims of Bernard L. Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Thousands of them have been trying to tap the fund since it was set...
View ArticleCuomo: state cracking down on impaired driving during Super Bowl weekend
pGov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Thursday that New York State Police and local law enforcement will be cracking down on impaired drivers during Super Bowl weekend between Feb. 6 and midnight Feb....
View ArticleNY medical marijuana program: 551 patients certified so far
pALBANY — Some 551 New Yorkers have been certified to obtain medical marijuana, nearly one month after the state’s program began./ppMore than 330 physicians, meanwhile, have...
View ArticleA 6.4-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Taiwan
pTAIPEI, TAIWAN — A 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck southern Taiwan early Saturday, causing at least two buildings to collapse./ppThe Taiwanese news website ET Today reported that two...
View ArticlePolice: BMX rider, Chittenango native Dave Mirra dies at 41 of apparent suicide
pVeteran X Games biker Dave Mirra has died in North Carolina, police say. The Chittenango native was 41./ppGreenville police said Thursday night that Mirra’s body was found earlier in the...
View ArticleTwitter moves to actively seek out terrorist supporters, deletes 125,000...
pWASHINGTON — Twitter is now using spam-fighting technology to seek out accounts that might be promoting terrorist activity and is examining other accounts related to those flagged for...
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