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Robbers enter Auburn home; attack Auburn woman with a crowbar
Masked robbers forced their way into an Auburn apartment Wednesday night, assaulting a woman with a crowbar and fleeing with jewelry and a cell phone.
City police the victim's 4-year-old child was in the apartment at 207 Janet St. at the time but was not injured. Another resident escaped the attack by fleeing through a window and alerted police.
City police said the victim said she answered a knock on her door shortly after 8:30 p.m., and when she opened the door, several masked individuals rushed in and attacked her. One of the attackers was armed with a crowbar and used it to hit the victim in the head. The robbers took jewelry and a cell phone, then fled.
The victim suffered cuts to her head, legs and arms. She was treated at Auburn Memorial Hospital and released later.
Anyone with information about the robbery can call city police at 253-3235 or city detectives at 258-9880.
For more on this story, see Staff Writer John Stith's story in Friday's edition of The Post-Standard. Stith can be reached at jstith@syracuse.com or at 253-7317.
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Camillus Cutlery strike ends
Camillus Cutlery workers tried to return to their jobs at the troubled company this morning after union members voted overwhelmingly to accept a new contract with their employer.
A company official locked the employee entrance as 50 members of Steelworkers Local 4783 gathered before attempting to enter the building to begin their 7 a.m. shift.
Union and company officials then met for about 10 minutes.
When union officials returned, they told the waiting workers that the company will call about 15 of the 78 union members back to work. Those workers will be called today and tommorrow.
The company will lay off the remaining workers, which allows the Steelworkers to apply for federal training and extended unemployment benefits available to workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition.
Members voted Wednesday to accept the same contract they had rejected at least twice before. The agreement cut wages, took away four paid holidays and two weeks of vacation, and requires workers to pay more for their health insurance.
For more on the strike's impact on the workers and the company, see Charley Hannagan's article in Friday's Post-Standard.
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Cayuga Community College men's basketball team put on probation
The Cayuga Community College men's basketball team will not be eligible to play this year in any post-season, regional competition.
The team has been placed on one-year probation by the National Junior College Athletic Association this season for having an ineligible player on last year's team who played in a regional tournament game. The name of the player has not been released.
The player was ineligible because he was not a full-time student taking at least 12 credit hours of course work. The Spartans will still be able to play their regular season schedule and conference playoffs this year.
Athletic Director Peter Liddell said he reported the inleligible player as soon as he was made aware of him.
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Police charge six in handgun incident
Syracuse police credit a concerned resident with getting a handgun off city streets.
As police officers were investigating a crash Wednesday, a woman pulled up and told officers a man in a park on Baker Avenue had just pointed a handgun at her.
Officers quickly went to the park and saw a man matching the description given by the woman standing near a car in the 200 block of Baker Avenue, police said. The man, later identified by police as Jerome Clark, 19, of 622 W. Brighton Ave., Syracuse, appeared to hand something off to the five people in the car and begin walking away, police said.
Police detained him and received permission from the car’s driver, Willie Robinson, 42, of Liverpool, to search the car, police said. Beneath the front seat police found a 9 mm handgun loaded with seven bullets in the clip and one in the chamber, police said.
Charged by police with third-degree criminal possession of a weapon were Clark; Robinson; Ernest Hester, 17, of 1486 S. State St.; Jarrell Williams, 16, of 1255 S. State St.; Saquan Evans, 17, of 300 Midland Ave.; and Raymond Williams, 16, of 616 Lodi St., all of Syracuse, police said.
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County marks National Adoption Day
Friday is National Adoption Day at the Onondaga County Courthouse.
The Alliance for Children’s Rights created the first National Adoption Day in November 2000 to call attention to the number of children in the foster care system who are eligible for adoption because of the termination of parental rights.
Staff writer Jim O'Hara will cover the ceremony.
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Camillus Cutlery Strike Ends
Camillus Cutlery workers tried to return to their jobs at the troubled company this morning after union members voted overwhelmingly to accept a new contract with their employer.
A company official locked the employee entrance as 50 members of Steelworkers Local 4783 attempted to enter the building to begin their 7 a.m. shift.
Union and company officials then met for about 10 minutes.
When union officials returned, they told waiting workers that the company will call about 15 of the 78 union members back to work.
Those workers will be called today and tommorrow.
The company will lay off the remaining workers, which allows the Steelworkers to apply for federal training and extended unemployment benefits available to workers who lose their jobs to foreign competition.
Members voted Wednesday to accept the same contract they had rejected at least twice before. The agreement cut wages, took away four paid holidays and two weeks of vacation, and requires workers to pay more for their health insurance.
For more on the strike's impact on the workers and the company see Charley Hannagan's article in Friday's Post-Standard.
Photo Caption: Kathy Westcott (left) VP of Steelworkers Local 4783 and Michelle Graves, (center) president of the union, talk to workers after they talked to the president and plant manager of Camillus Cutlery. Workers have been on strike since May. Photo by Dick Blume / P-S
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 | |
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Boeheim, Robinson made more than $1 million from SU
Syracuse University paid two head coaches more than $1 million in total compensation during its fiscal year that ended in June, according to a 2005 SU tax document made public today.
The Form 990 document that covers the fiscal year from July 1, 2005, to June 30, 2006, shows the total compensation for Jim Boeheim Jr., SU men’s head basketball coach, increasing 120 percent from last year, to $1,073,523 total in compensation and contributions to benefit plans. Boeheim’s total compensation and benefit contributions last year was $487,443.
SU’s other million-dollar coach is head football coach Greg Robinson, whose total compensation and contributions to his benefit plan are listed at $1,030,925. Last year’s document shows Robinson making $638,441 total, but that was for a partial year. Robinson was hired after the fiscal year began.
Staff writer Nancy Buczek has a full report for Thursday's Post-Standard. For a list of the five highest-paid employees at SU, click on the "Read More" link below.
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Thief steals woman's wheelchair
A thief made off with a disabled Syracuse woman’s wheelchair today, taking it from the hallway outside her apartment.
Irma Ortiz, 54, of Centennial Drive, told police she noticed her electric wheelchair missing only minutes after she had last seen it outside her apartment door at noon. It is maroon and is valued at $7,100.
A witness told police he saw a woman riding the scooter-type wheelchair on Centennial Drive toward South Avenue and thought it was Ortiz.
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Bridgeport man killed in Thruway crash
State police have identified the man killed this afternoon after his truck slammed into a truck painting *** markings on the New York State Thruway near Weedsport.
Phillip Newcomb, 60, of Bridgeport, was killed after the 2:35 p.m. crash in Mentz, about three miles west of Exit 40 in Weedsport.
A driver for the construction company, Joseph Denuzzo, 42, of Watervliet, was injured. He was treated for head cuts at Auburn Memorial Hospital, state police said.
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Bolton, nation's U.N. ambassador, to speak at SU
The United States' ambassador to the United Nations will speak at Syracuse University Tuesday.
John R. Bolton will address U.S. priorities for the United Nations during his talk at 2:30 p.m. at the Maxwell School. The speech will be held at 220 Eggers Hall and is free and open to the public.
The controversial U.N. ambassador was appointed by President Bush to his position Aug. 1, 2005. He got the appointment after Congress was on recess and the Senate had previously refused to confirm him. Earlier this year, Bolton was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to expose and hinder international nuclear arms programs.
Staff writer Pam Lundborg has a full report for Thursday's Post-Standard.
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Guns, cash stolen in Brookfield
State police say guns and money were among the items taken from a Brookfield home some time Tuesday evening.
A Button Falls Road resident reported the burglary after returning home and finding a window broken.
Among the items reported stolen were: a Bushmaster AR-15 rifle; a 12-gauge Mossberg double-barrel shotgun, a floor safe containing $1,000 in cash, credit cards and personal checks; a set of golf clubs and a coin collection.
Anyone with information about the burglary is asked to call Troop D at 366-6000.
--Kathy Coffta Sims
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Shop City purse snatching
Onondaga County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for a suspect in a failed purse snatching today at the Shop City Plaza in Salina.
In a similar case, Syracuse Police are looking for a suspect in a purse snatching reported at Shop City on Sunday.
In Sunday’s incident a woman at about 2 p.m. was walking in the parking lot when a man came up to her, took her purse and ran north toward Teall Avenue.
In today’s incident, a woman at about 9:40 a.m. was walking on the sidewalk when a man on a bicycle rode past her and tried snatching her purse. The woman held onto her purse and the man fled on the bike toward Grant Avenue.
The suspect in both incidents was described as a young man with spiked, black hair. Anyone with information can call Syracuse Police at 442-5222 or Sheriff’s detectives at 435-3081.
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Four accused in series of break-ins
Four city teenagers have charged been in a string of late-night burglaries that targeted student apartments this September in Syracuse University’s South Campus, Syracuse police said.
Leroy Hightower, 17, of 282 W. Lafayette Ave., and Malik Evans, 18, of 227 McKinley Ave., are both charged with four counts of second-degree burglary and three counts of fourth-degree grand larceny, felonies, and a count of petit larceny, a misdemeanor.
Raquan Robinson, 17, of 374 W. Newell St., was charged with three counts of second-degree burglary and three counts of fourth-degree grand larceny. Jarrett Johnson, 16, of 108 Empire Ave., was charged with one count of second-degree burglary and petit larceny.
The four are accused of breaking into apartments on Farm Acre Road, Lambreth *** and Small Road, police said. The break-ins occurred on Sept. 7, Sept. 9 and Sept. 17, police said, and at least two apartments were occupied during the break-ins, police said.
Taken during the burglaries were laptop computers, video gaming systems, DVDs and video games, police said.
During the Sept. 17 break-in, residents confronted the suspects, police said.
Hightower was arrested Tuesday, Evans was arrested Oct. 30, Robinson was arrested Oct. 23 and Johnson was arrested Sept. 17.
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State commission asks power line developer for more info
The state Public Service Commission has weighed in on New York Regional Interconnect’s $1.6 billion high-voltage power line project, asking the private developer to submit more information for review “as soon as reasonably possible.”
The state agency is tasked with reviewing and approving or denying the 190-mile-long project that has residents in Madison and Oneida counties up in arms.
In a filing last week, the commission requested a laundry list of information, including: aerial photographs of the proposed power corridor; further details about NYRI’s plan for clearing land at proposed substations; a list of historical, cultural, geological and scenic areas within three miles of the proposed route; a preliminary look at anticipated access roads; and a blasting plan with provisions to protect the environment.
NYRI previously had asked that the commission waive these requirements when considering its application.
--Alaina Potrikus
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Man accused of leaving scene of funeral home crash
Police responding to a car that had crashed into a West Onondaga Avenue funeral home Wednesday morning didn’t find a driver, the occupants of the car took off before police arrived, police said.
But while police were still at the scene of Greenleaf Funeral Home at Onondaga and Midland avenues, dipatchers got a request for an ambulance from a man on Richmond Avenue, police said.
Tremell Jackson, 20, of 548 Richmond Ave., told Rural Metro that he had dislocated his elbow in a Midland Avenue crash, police said.
Police said they determined Jackson was the driver of the car that crashed into the building and Jackson was charged with leaving the scene of an accident and unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle.
The owner of the vehicle was identified by police as Sylvia Hackett, 45, of 2505 Midland Ave. She is Jackson’s mother and police ticketed her for permitting unlicensed operation, police said.
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