Four Dead After Thruway Crash Involving Drunk Driver
A fatal collision on the Thruway near Canastota left four dead and survivors recount a chaotic night. A 39-year-old Delhi, New York man faced a blood alcohol level of 0.14 and a history of drinking and driving as a Toronto family en route to New Jersey collided with a northbound pickup. Survivors describe screams and a desperate search for escape amid the wreckage that destroyed weekend plans and injured multiple others.
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Moxley
Madison County
Delhi
Delaware County
Felix Opoku-Agyemang
Opoku- Agyemang
State Thruway
Canastota
New Jersey
Canada
Mercury
Officials demand halt on sending boys to MacCormick Center
Judges urged to stop sending juvenile offenders to the Austin MacCormick Center until a child abuse investigation is complete. The Herald American Herald-Journal began a three part series detailing a decade long pattern of abuses at the secure residential facility for teen boys near Ithaca. Former MacCormick residents and others speak out.
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Austin MacCormick Center
Stone
The
Herald American/ Herald-Journal
Ithaca
MacCormick
Workers at boys home face sexual harassment suit
Alfred Fields testified in Utica federal court on March 3 1993 about a sexual harassment case involving Dorothea Cornwell at a New York youth facility. Lawyers discussed a possible out of court settlement with eight co defendants amid admissions of harassment by one co defendant.
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Dorothea Cornwell
Alfred Fields
U.S. District Court
Utica
New York State Division For Youth
Father dies in kitchen fire. infant saved in Syracuse
Firefighters pulled Sean Williams from a first floor apartment at 2008 Onondaga Creek Blvd after a stove blaze tore through a two story Syracuse complex around 10 30 p m Saturday. Williams died despite resuscitation efforts while his infant daughter was carried out alive. Fire officials investigated the cause as the second fatal Syracuse fire this year.
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Syracuse
Sean Williams
Onondaga Creek Blvd
Williams
Exchange student hopes school keeps him from war
Bosnia native Andy Laslo arrived as a foreign exchange student in Lewis County for his senior year at Beaver River Central School. He fled Sarajevo after months indoors to avoid Serb sniper fire, left on the last bus to Croatia, as his family’s apartment was looted and burned and Branka Laslo and Tomas live with relatives.
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Beaver River Central School
Lewis County
Bosnia
Tomas
Sarajevo
Andy
Branka
Croatia
Peace Holds as Bosnia Shows Strain in Three-Way Split
In Sarajevo the weary residents welcomed a fragile cease-fire but fear the Geneva agreement may carve Bosnia into three ethnic zones. Three warring factions back a tentative plan to divide the republic while hoping for lasting peace amid shattered hopes.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia
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Geneva
ATZ
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Hart Seely
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