Police: Watertown man poured hot candle wax on woman, slapped her
pWATERTOWN — A city man is facing multiple charges for two separate domestic disputes that allegedly took place over the past couple of months./ppAt 4:11 a.m. Monday, city police charged...
View ArticleMonitors say ballast water examined on all vessels entering Seaway system in...
pMASSENA — A group that monitors the introduction of invasive species into the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system through ballast water reports that all vessels entering the system in...
View ArticleFederal, state tax credits comparable solution to $15 minimum wage
pA $15 minimum wage in New York state aims to eliminate low-income poverty, but Earned Income Tax Credits could be the solution without the added financial consequences to employers./ppFarmers and...
View ArticleTri-Town meat plant’s revival shakes up NNY livestock market
pBRASHER FALLS — Tri-Town Packing Corp.’s U.S. Department of Agriculture-inspected livestock slaughter and processing operations resumed Jan. 28, and the company offered some...
View ArticleCouncil members won’t pursue $150,000 in arena concession stand work
pWATERTOWN — With the hopes a vendor will come forward, City Council members decided Tuesday night not to spend at least $150,000 to make additional improvements to the Watertown Municipal...
View ArticleRoad slush topples tractor-trailer near Ogdensburg
pOGDENSBURG — No one was injured when the driver of a tractor-trailer tanker truck lost control in slushy road conditions Tuesday, causing the vehicle to tip over onto its side. The incident...
View ArticleWind developer renews several land leases in Clayton, Orleans, Brownville and...
pCLAYTON — The developer of the Horse Creek wind project recently renewed and updated several land leases across the towns of Clayton, Orleans, Brownville and Lyme, according to Jefferson...
View ArticleSlushy, snowy conditions cause several accidents throughout Jefferson County
pWATERTOWN — Tuesday was a busy day for Jefferson County law enforcement, fire departments and emergency responders./ppSlushy road conditions and poor visibility throughout the day led to...
View ArticleTB is rare in the U.S., so that’s bad for those who catch it
pTwo years ago a hospital administrator confirmed that my brother Gary had tuberculosis. Then she told the bad news./pp“It’s worse than we thought,” she said....
View ArticleSome signs that U.S. kids may be getting smarter in math
p“The Math Revolution,” The Atlantic magazine/ppImagine a rope that runs completely around the Earth’s equator. You cut it and tie in another piece of rope that is 710...
View ArticleSleep well, baby boomers, the millennials aren’t taking over politics . . . yet
pALERT ALERT, the Wall Street Journal blared on its front page on Tuesday, MILLENNIALS UNSETTLE RACE./ppThe aforementioned race being that for the presidency, and the unsettling referring to the...
View ArticleScientists: Puffins might spend the winter off New Jersey
pPORTLAND, Maine — Researchers say they’ve found an answer to the long-standing question of where Maine’s Atlantic puffins spend the winter: far off New Jersey and New...
View ArticleParmesan cheese is not what it seems
pIn the 1950s, the Food and Drug Administration established an official definition for parmesan cheese. According to these requirements, it cannot contain more than 32 percent moisture, while it must...
View ArticleColorado Springs Planned Parenthood reopens, months after shooting
pThere were first-day jitters. There was a rush of relieved patients. And yes, there were protesters./ppNearly three months after a gunman shot and killed three people outside a Planned Parenthood...
View ArticleLarge sink hole shuts down Syracuse street; repairs underway
pSYRACUSE — A street in Syracuse is shut down after a 20-foot-deep sink hole opened up as the road was being salted by a city public works vehicle./ppOfficials say a DPW truck was salting a...
View ArticleNot quite Doogie Howser: Florida 18-year-old charged with masquerading as a...
p“Just because you saw a season of Grey’s Anatomy,” the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office said in a tweet this week, “doesn’t mean you...
View ArticleFamily seeks snow donations to help Frosty last until spring
pMASSAPEQUA PARK — A suburban New York family is seeking snow donations to help its 14-foot snowman last until spring — and some cold weather would help, too./ppNewsday reports...
View ArticleSeven cops surround Montana home only to find family watching ‘The Walking Dead’
pIt sounded like a scene from a horror film./ppScreaming and gunshots, heavy footsteps and mayhem. At 7:28 p.m. Sunday, the sounds prompted a neighbor to call 911. Another helped seven police officers...
View ArticleTexas A&M apologizes after minorities told to ‘go back where you came from’
pTexas A&M University leaders have apologized to a group of inner-city high school students who said they were racially taunted and told to “go back where you came from”...
View ArticleHeuvelton man found guilty of making meth following weeklong trial
pCANTON — A Heuvelton man has been found guilty Wednesday in St. Lawrence County Court of making methamphetamine following a weeklong trial./ppShawn M. Cullen II, 26, of 4395 County Route...
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