Today's Syracuse New York Headlines...
New York state budget borrowed time, but not money
Spending plan closes $9.2 billion gap with 90 percent cuts and 10 percent new fees and taxes.
Oswego school district hopes to soon hire consultant to handle redistricting
Oswego, NY -- The Oswego school board is close to hiring a consultant to help it redistrict in the 2011-12 school year. Superintendent William Crist said the consultant would wade through various recent studies and proposals on redistricting, then suggest...
LaFayette bulldozer crash sends Mass. man to hospital
LaFayette, NY -- A Massachusetts man was hospitalized Wednesday after a bulldozer he was operating went out of control down a steep embankment at a gas pipeline work site in LaFayette. Roy Baltzer, 37, was operating the bulldozer off Eager...
Gov. David Paterson still pushing long-shot property tax cap
ALBANY, N.Y. ? A day after the Legislature passed one of the latest state budgets in New York history, financial and business analysts said the budget overspends and overtaxes while Gov. David Paterson said the work isn?t done. The lame-duck...
Rudy Giuliani's daughter arrested at New York City cosmetics store
View full sizeFrank Franklin II / APCaroline Giuliani (center), 20, leaves the 19th precinct Wednesday in New York City. A law enforcement official says Rudy Giuliani's daughter was arrested after she was seen on video pocketing makeup at a cosmetics...
New York attorney general investigates health care credit cards
"You can't have the hat of a doctor and the hat of a financing agent at the same time," Andrew Cuomo says. "That's a conflict of interest."