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syracuse.com — DeWitt, NY - New Process Gear will lay off 406 workers beginning in August, the company told the New York State Department of Labor. In a notice filed Wednesday, the automotive parts company told the state that 406 salaried, union and non-union workers will lose their jobs between Aug.

blog.syracuse.com — Former Syracuse Orange basketball player Scoop Jardine worked out for the New York Knicks on Wednesday, along with a handful of other NBA Draft hopefuls.

syracuse.com — Syracuse, N.Y. -- Baldwinsville Central School District got an extra $125,000 in New York state aid in early May. The Tully School District had no such luck. Both districts serve families with similar incomes and houses with similar property values. Both have about the same percentage of students receiving free or reduced lunches.

syracuse.com — Actor Alec Baldwin has lit up Twitter again in another tirade, but this time no airlines or stalkers were involved. "Some complain on Twitter about Obama," he wrote Tuesday in a series of tweets. "You wanna go back? To Bush? Cheney? Paulson? Rumsfeld? Unfunded wars? Death of US soldiers and innocent civilians for oil?

syracuse.com — Syracuse, NY -- An $8.1 million apartment building for homeless veterans is planned to replace the vacant former Jewish Community Center on East Genesee Street in Syracuse. Housing Visions, a non-profit that builds homes for low-income residents, is teaming up with the Veterans Administration on the project, which will be called VanKeuren Square.

syracuse.com — Many students throughout Central New York will have an extra-long Memorial Day weekend and one school district will start summer vacation two days earlier than originally planned. With a milder-than-usual winter, school superintendents called few snow days. The three largest school districts in Onondaga County - Syracuse, Liverpool and North Syracuse schools - used no snow days all winter.

syracuse.com — Syracuse, NY -- A federal judge is questioning how Syracuse police handled two traveling evangelists who said they were warned they could be arrested while preaching downtown in April. Michael Marcavage, of Repent America, and Michael Stockwell, of Cross Country Evangelism, were told by Syracuse police to stop handing out religious pamphlets and to stop using a loudspeaker April 9 in the heart of downtown Syracuse, according to their complaint.

syracuse.com — Syracuse -- The head of Onondaga County's Democratic Party plans to resign next month, making way for a new chair to take the reins at the beginning of the election season. Vita DeMarchi, who took over the party in the fall of 2010, said she's leaving before her term ends in September to allow Mark English, her expected successor, to direct the Democrats throughout this year's campaigns.

syracuse.com — Syracuse -- Two local Republicans cast very different views Wednesday about Gov. Andrew Cuomo's selection of Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner as a new co-chair the state's Democratic Committee. State Sen. John DeFrancisco, a 20-year veteran of Albany and chairman of the powerful Senate Finance Committe, applauded the news.

syracuse.com — Clay, NY - As Ben Dillard sat in traffic this morning he watched several Moyers Corners fire trucks scream past him. A minute later his cell phone rang. "My neighbor called me and told me my house was burning," he said. "I was trapped in traffic." A passerby called 911 at 7:54 a.m.

blog.syracuse.com — From rare audio interviews of former slaves to recordings by Donna Summer and the Grateful Dead, 25 sounds that shaped the American cultural landscape are being inducted into the National Recording Registry.

blog.syracuse.com — Syracuse Orange basketball coach Jim Boeheim recently talked to Mike Waters of The Post-Standard about the upcoming London Olympics and the U.S. basketball team. Boeheim, who is part of head coach Mike Krzyzewski's Olympic staff, talked about the roster for this year's team; how he expects the competition will compare to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing; the role that Anthony Davis could play; Mike Hopkins' role as co-head coach of USA Select Team; and much more.

blog.syracuse.com — By Hannah Doolin Contributing writer Every Wednesday morning, a large white truck marked with a modest logo pulls up to Funk 'n Waffles restaurant near the Syracuse University campus. Co-owner Kyle Corea greets the driver as he unloads a shipment of eggs, flour, sugar, cheese, juice and chocolate chips.

syracuse.com — By last week, the rooms were empty in the little house on Wadsworth Street in Syracuse. Nick DeMartino donated much of the furniture and decorations to the Winds of Agape, a charitable organization, although he kept a small pile of things for himself: His Little League trophies.

syracuse.com — PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Wedding bells will ring this summer for Marvel Comics' first openly gay hero, super speedster Northstar, and his longtime boyfriend. The New York-based publisher said Tuesday that Canadian character Jean-Paul Beaubier will marry his beau, Kyle Jinadu, in the pages of "Astonishing X-Men" No. 51.

syracuse.com — Syracuse -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner and Manhattan Assemblyman Keith Wright to chair the state's Democratic Committee. According to the state committee, both have accepted the nomination, though the party's bylaws must be amended to allow the co-chairs to serve.

syracuse.com — Dwight Eisenhower was president and all the talk was about Little Rock, the Cold War and Carol Burnett on Broadway. A 41-year-old Mike Wallace was just getting started with the questions. Did William F. Buckley Jr. enjoy the role of angry young man? Would Tennessee Williams ever be a completely happy human being?

syracuse.com — LaFayette, NY -- The man accused of breaking eggs of a nesting Manlius swan was stopped for doing almost twice the 55-mph speed limit Monday on a LaFayette highway, state police said today. Ross B. Leone, 23, of 3333 Ransom Road, Jamesville, was clocked shortly after 11 p.m.

syracuse.com — Syracuse, N.Y. -- Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner is on her way to co-chair the state's Democratic Committee, a job with a demanding campaign and fundraising schedule in the midst of her first term at the city's head. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday tapped Miner and Assemblyman Keith Wright, D-Harlem, to co-chair the state's committee.

syracuse.com — DeWitt, NY -- Matthew Salbert, 13, had put on his hiking gear and strapped on a backpack March 17 to explore the woods near his DeWitt home. After 45 minutes of exploring, all he had seen was an animal bone. But then he stumbled upon something much more unusual: a clearly visible human skull.

syracuse.com — Summer is almost here. Ahhhh. Summer. 'Hazy, hot, and humid', baseball games, hitting the pool, sand in your toes, fireworks, and standing in line for a twist on a waffle cone may be in your near future. You know it is summer when they are rocking in Weedsport, when the Hinderwadel's salt potatoes are ready to be dipped in melted butter...

blog.syracuse.com — To the Editor: Lily was an amazing little girl. She lit up a room with her smile and bouncy pigtails, and she brought joy to so many lives. On Feb. 16, Lily went to sleep and never woke up. We were shocked and devastated. No one could tell us why this happened.

syracuse.com — Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney today appointed 28 people to a newly created council tasked with recommending ways to promote and preserve the county's farming community. Mahoney said the Agriculture Council also is being asked to develop strategies and programs to promote local food regionally and strengthen connections between the county's urban core and its rural, agricultural areas.

syracuse.com — PITTSBURGH - A Pennsylvania company plans to invest $380 million to expand natural gas pipelines in the state, and ultimately link to markets in New Jersey and New York. Penn Virginia Resource Partners, L.P., of Radnor, said Monday that some of the expansions to its Lycoming County pipeline in central Pennsylvania will begin in the next two weeks and be finished later this year.

syracuse.com — Syracuse -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo today all but ended debate on raising New York's minimum wage, saying that boosting the pay rate was outside of the "realm of possibility." Cuomo, a Democrat, said he supports raising the wage on WCNY's "Capitol Pressroom" radio and Internet show.

blog.syracuse.com — For Triple Crown-winning jockey Steve Cauthen, 34 years ago seems like yesterday. And after watching I'll Have Another's victories in the Kentucky Derby and Preakness, he thinks the Triple Crown drought might finally come to an end in the Belmont Stakes.