CRIME & SAFETY
Two teens charged with burglarizing Camillus pizza, ice cream shops
Syracuse, N.Y. — Two teenangers were charged with breaking into two Camillus businesses and taking money from them last month, police said Friday. The two 16-year-old boys are each facing eight criminal charges, including six felonies. Police did not identify the teens. Charlee’s Ice Cream and Cam’s Pizza in...
Syracuse arrests convicted killer staying in campus encampment following lawmaker outrage
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (TND) — The Syracuse University Department of Public Safety on Friday arrested Eural Warren, a convicted killer who had been present at the school’s Gaza solidarity encampment. An encampment of over 70 tents has taken over Syracuse’s Quad in protest of its refusal to condemn Israel...
52-year-old charged in early morning stabbing on Syracuse’s North Side
Syracuse, N.Y. — A 52-year-old man was charged today with stabbing another man five times early this morning, according to city police. Luis Centeno-Ortiz, 52, was charged with second-degree assault and fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon. Police found a 46-year-old man who’d been stabbed at about 2:30 a.m....
Shirley Winters, convicted child killer, to be placed in secure psychiatric facility
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — On Friday, May 10, Shirley Winters was officially released from prison and will now be placed in a secure psychiatric facility for the foreseeable future, according to Onondaga County District Attorney Bill Fitzpatrick. Winters was in prison for 17 years for smothering her 5-month-old son at her home in Otisco and […]
WATCH: Ceremony to honor fallen Syracuse Police officers
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — It’s been just about a month since the CNY community began mourning the loss of two fallen heroes. Lt. Michael Hoosock, with the Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office, and Syracuse Police Officer Michael Jensen gave their lives on April 14 while doing what they knew best: protecting others. On May 13, the […]
Bus crash reporting opens window on lives of migrant workers in our midst (Editorial Board Opinion)
Migrant laborers are here in Central New York but are largely invisible to us until we are forced to look — as in the horrific North Country bus crash in January 2023 that left six men dead and nine injured. A box truck traveling in the opposite direction crossed...
Fentanyl Awareness Day prompts renewed call to N.Y. Gov. Hochul for state of emergency
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Issuing dire warnings that taking only one pill laced with fentanyl could kill, law-enforcement and community leaders on Staten Island gathered to renew their demand that Gov. Kathy Hochul declare a state of emergency for the overdose crisis in New York state. District Attorney Michael...
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