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September 24, 2018
This Friday’s the deadline to apply to take the Civil Service Exam for Oneida County Corrections Officer. You can download the application on the county’s website, […]
September 24, 2018
Tasheonia Hills’ murder trial is scheduled to begin this morning in Oneida County Court. She’s accused of stabbing her mother, forty-four-year-old Irene Williams, to death, at their […]
September 24, 2018
Traffic alert now-the 840 off-ramps to Routes 5 west / 12 south will be closed for paving from 9 am to 3 pm today. Signed detours […]
National News
Chicago-area priest removed from church after burning LGBTQ banner
iStock/Thinkstock(CHICAGO) -- A Chicago-area priest, who has sparked nationwide outrage after burning an LGBTQ banner that once hung in the church, has been removed from the parish, the Archdiocese of Chicago confirms. Cardinal Blase Cupich, Archdiocese of Chicago, removed Rev. Paul Kalchik from the..Man charged with cold-case murder of jogger Melissa Millan after confessing in church
Simsbury Police Dept.(SIMSBURY, Conn.) -- Nearly four years ago, Melissa Millan, a mother of two, was brutally murdered in Connecticut while she was out on a jog. The crime went unsolved until last week, when a registered sex offender, William Leverett, walked into a church, Open Gate Ministries in ..Woman Cosby convicted of sexually assaulting wants ‘justice as the court sees fit’
Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images(NORRISTOWN, Pa.) -- A sentencing hearing for comedian Bill Cosby began Monday as women who said he drugged and physically took advantage of them, including one whom he was convicted of sexually assaulting, filled a Pennsylvania courtroom to watch the first major-cel..After 6-year-old boy vanishes in park, FBI tapes his parents’ voices and plays recording in area in hopes of finding him
Gastonia Police Department(GASTONIA, N.C.) -- A massive search effort is underway in Gastonia, North Carolina, where a 6-year-old boy with autism vanished over the weekend after going to a local park with his father. As the search continues for Maddox Ritch, who was last seen Saturday at Rankin Lake..Officer accused of killing man in wrong apartment is fired: Chief
iStock/Thinkstock(DALLAS) -- A Dallas police officer charged with manslaughter in the wrong apartment fatal shooting of a man was fired Monday morning, according to an email sent by Police Chief Rene Hall. Officer Amber Guyger, 30, "engaged in adverse conduct" when she fatally shot Botham Jean, 26, ..
World News
September 24, 2018
iStock/Thinkstock(WASHINGTON) -- An American diplomat in Madagascar was found dead in their home late Friday night, the State Department confirmed on Monday.
U.S. and Malagasy authorities are conducting a joint investigation into the death in the African country's capital of Antananarivo, State Department spokesperson Heather Nauert said in a statement.
"Our deepest sympathies go out to the family and to the U.S. Embassy Antananarivo community," she added.
The State Department declined to r..
September 24, 2018
iStock/Thinkstock(ROME) -- Dozens of distressed survivors aboard a migrant rescue ship in the deadly Mediterranean Sea were in limbo after Panama withdrew the vessel’s registration amid Italian complaints about such ships that one official has called a “taxi service" for migrants.
The Aquarius 2 is the last private rescue vessel to search for shipwrecked migrants on the route from North and Sub-Saharan Africa to Italy, via Libya. The ship, which has made rescues in recent days off Libya, is oper..
September 24, 2018
ABC News(OSAKA, Japan) -- An Indonesian teenager has been rescued after 49 days lost at sea on a floating fish trap.
Aldi Novel Adilang, 19, was living on and operating the fish trap, known locally as a rompong, when the rope anchoring the vessel in place broke on July 14 and strong winds blew him roughly 1,200 miles away into Japanese waters, according to the Associated Press. He floated adrift for nearly two months on the makeshift vessel, which is not equipped with steering like a boat.
Adil..
September 24, 2018
iStock/Thinkstock(MOSCOW) -- Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, Alexey Navalny, was released from jail and then immediately arrested again on charges of calling for unsanctioned protests.
Navalny was met by police officers at the door of a Moscow detention center as he stepped out of jail Monday after serving a 30-day sentence for organizing an unauthorized rally.
He was immediately taken to a police station where he was again charged again with organizing an unsanctioned demonstration,..
September 24, 2018
Abaco Fire Chief Colin Albury(ABACO ISLAND, Bahamas) -- An American tourist suffered a severe injury when she was attacked by a shark while spearfishing in the Bahamas Sunday afternoon, according to authorities.
The unnamed Massachusetts native had “severe trauma” to her left hand, and was flown by air ambulance to a hospital in Florida.
“She isn’t mad at the shark because getting attacked is a common risk with spearfishing,” Abaco Fire Chief Colin Albury told ABC News.
According to Albury, th..