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Syracuse, N.Y. -- Chuckie Holstein remembers a time when she was often the only woman in a room of male decision makers. “For years, I used to be the token woman on a board, or the token woman here or there,” said Holstein, 98. Most know her today as...

Manlius, NY — Hank Chapman and Robert M. Oley were unofficially declared winners in the four way race for Village of Manlius Trustee, according to Onondaga County Elections Commissioner Dustin Czarny. In an Onondaga County Board of Elections Tally, Hank Chapman, a citizen candidate, received 319 votes as of...

Syracuse, N.Y. — A 45-year-old man was shot in both legs on the South Side in Syracuse Tuesday morning, police said. Around 8:20 a.m. Syracuse police received a ShotSpotter notification for Hatch Street that seven rounds were possibly fired, according to dispatches from the Onondaga County 911 Center. Police...

CICERO, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — The Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office is putting NewsChannel 9 viewers ‘On the Lookout’ for 42-year-old Christopher Spellman. Spellman is wanted by the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office for Felony Criminal Contempt and three other Warrants. His last known address was 7837 Pegler Blvd. in the Town of Cicero. Spellman has been arrested […]

Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon said remediating the area's lead problem isn't as difficult as it was in the past. “This issue used to be a funding issue, being able to identify resources to address it with. That's not the issue now. The issue now is getting out and finding these cases and getting out and proactively going into the old homes. The city now has inspectors going in and identifying where there is lead so that we can get the dollars there to remediate it," McMahon said.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV)– The City of Syracuse is asking for the community’s input on newly proposed surveillance technology to aid the Syracuse Police Department in its investigations. Automated license plate readers would be positioned in 26 locations SPD identified across the city on either overhead traffic lights or...

Spring is on the way, with farm stands and a landscaper among the 37 new businesses that were registered at County Clerk’s offices in Onondaga, Cayuga and Madison counties between March 13 and 17. Other businesses included dog daycare and a speech therapist. Seven businesses opted to close in...

Syracuse government is aggressively accumulating abandoned land to rebuild the long-neglected South Side neighborhood into something else. The city has been foreclosing on blighted properties and shifting them to the Greater Syracuse Land Bank to knock down and stabilize one of the most impoverished areas in America. The quasi-governmental agency...

Onondaga County legislators on Tuesday discussed a proposal that would address major staffing issues for critical health and public safety positions. The New York Department of Civil Service's Hiring Emergency Limited Placement, or HELP, program, would speed up the hiring process by removing the hurdle of a civil service exam.

Syracuse, N.Y. – At Ballantyne Garden Apartments, home to dozens of low-income tenants on the South Side, city code inspectors this month found sewage on basement floors. The doors to the buildings could not be locked, they said. Mice ran rampant in some parts of the complex. Garbage littered...

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Nationally recognized civil rights attorney Ben Crump has been retained by the family of one of the women who died after a crowd surge at Rochester’s Main Street Armory. Syracuse resident Aisha Haskins-Stephens, 35, was one of three women to die as a result of the crowd surge at the March […]

BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — The Baldwinsville Central School District reeling this afternoon, March 21, after the sudden death of a Durgee Junior High School 8th grader. Police say 14-year-old Maya “Marshall” Pickard was found dead at their home on Mercer Street yesterday afternoon. The manner and cause...

The 2022-23 Section III girls basketball Onondaga High School League all-stars were recently released. Players were selected by Section III coaches.

MANLIUS, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — If you’re traveling in the Village of Manlius, you’ll see there are just stumps where trees used to be. Their removal is connected to two major projects, one being the DOT’s paving project which includes new sidewalks and curbs among other things.

The Syracuse VA Medical Center says they have exceeded their goal for housing homeless veterans, part of a nationwide effort by the VA to combat homelessness among our nation’s heroes. Marine Corps veteran David Brown is one of the 141 veterans the organization’s Homeless Outreach Team helped to find...

Stephens-Haskins touched the lives of countless kids in Syracuse, including 11-year-old Brexialee Torres-Ortiz, who was gunned down in Syracuse on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

China Boone, a supervisor at the Destiny USA Burlington store, waited Tuesday for about an hour to catch a bus to her home near Onondaga Hill. She has come to expect the wait when she rides Centro’s Sy-26 South Avenue/Onondaga Community College bus line. Some days, Boone said, the...

AURELIUS, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — New York State Police arrested an Auburn woman after she allegedly was driving the wrong way while intoxicated. On March 18, New York State Police arrested 28-year-old Samantha E. Ryan from Auburn N.Y. after responding to a vehicle driving the wrong way on Arterial East in the town of Aurelius. Ryan […]

Anyone with a good idea and financing can make an offer to buy property from the Greater Syracuse Land Bank. The Land Bank owns about 900 properties. They are homes, commercial properties and vacant land. All are available to browse on the Land Bank’s website. That includes properties that are...

MANLIUS, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — We’re ‘On The Lookout’ with Manlius Police, as they show us how stolen vehicles ended up 20 minutes away. Three vehicles were stolen in Manlius from Thursday, March 16 into Friday, March 17. The vehicles were stolen from Verbeck Drive, Prestwick Drive and Turnberry Drive. Footage of the cars being stolen: […]