Police artists herald holidays across teletype network
State police and city departments turn to art and poetry on New Year and Christmas teletype messages. Officers create festive black and white portraits and greetings using X and O keys, shading by spacing, and even bells signaling transmissions. Christmas scenes include madonnas Santa Clauses and menorahs appear in New York alerts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Bellinger
Madonna
Santa Claus
Saranac Lake
New York City
Solomon
Car Crash Cuts Power To Minoa Area Early Today
A driver named David Weigel, 20, of Bridgeport fell asleep at the wheel on Rt 298 near Fremont Road and sheared off a utility pole, causing a three hour power outage that disrupted traffic lights from north of Minoa to the DeWitt line. Weigel was taken by ambulance to State University Hospital for examination. Police say the incident cut power across several local limits.
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Minoa
R. W. Hicks
David Weigel
Bridgeport
Weigel
Fremont Road
State University Hospital
DeWitt
Cicera
Woman killed in Ilion. son held on murder charge
Francis O Rourke, 16, of Apt A4, Remington Park Ilion, is jailed without bail after being charged with first degree manslaughter in his mother Josephine O Rourke s death. Troopers say he struck her with a telephone during an argument in their apartment. An autopsy confirmed head injury as the cause. Police say the case is pending a preliminary hearing next Wednesday.
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Hion
Herkimer State
Francis O’rourke
Apt. A4
Resmington Park
Ilion
John Sevatel
Herkimer
Ordred
Herkimer County
Leo O'Rourke
Apt. el
Josephine
Robert Hall
Faxton Hospital
Uti
LeMoyne Plans 4.5 Million Library Theater Wing
LeMoyne College unveils a 4.5 million library building named the Learning Resources Center adding a 350 seat theater and a mass media center. The wing includes a 50 seat audio visual lecture hall three 50 to 60 seat student rooms and a journalism center studio for the campus radio WLMU plus an art graphics TV studio and audio-visual equipment center. The 350 seat auditorium features two movable seat banks and rehearsal spaces for costumes prop storage and set construction. The library will hold 300 000 books 36 000 periodicals and space for 250 individual carrel seats with study spaces and an art gallery.
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John Hanson
LeMoyne College
William L. Reilly
S.A
WLMU
Hogan
Niemi
Inmate at Auburn Jail Faces Attica Riot Charges
An Auburn Correctional Facility inmate, Ernest Bixby, 38, Rochester, arraigned on Attica riot charges, attempted self harm Thursday night. Prison officials found him with a radio headset cord around his neck. he was reported in good condition at the infirmary.
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Auburn Correctional Facility
Attica
Paul Bergan
Ernest Bixby
Rochester
Bixby
Six killed in crashes across New Year weekend
A Hogansburg snowmobiler and five others died in five area accidents at the start of the New Year weekend. Ontario County reports three fatalities in two crashes in Macedon and Shortsville, including Barbara Hall 34 and her 13 year old daughter Cynthia. Louise Miles 29 and a 7 year old were injured in another Route 43 crash. Additional deaths include James Arquette 16 from Hogansburg in a Drum Street Road snowmobile accident, Thomas Pritchard 69 of Utica in a Route 20 collision, and Francis Mazzyé 25 of Liverpool who may have collapsed at a light in Syracuse. Betty Lazore 43 of Hogansburg was injured aiding Arquette when struck by a second vehicle.
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Hogansburg
Manchester
Ontario County
Barbara Hall
Wilkinson Road
Macedon
Cynthia
Louise M. Miles
RD 1
Route
Shortsville
James Arquette
Cook Road
Drim Street
Fort Covington
Malone
Thomas Pritchard
Brinkethoff Ave
Utica
Oneida County
Pritchard
Bridgewater
Ontario County Sheriff's Deputies
Jay A. Baker
E. Main St
Palmyra
Clifton Springs Hospital
Morton Orlov
Ontario
Louise Miles
Jean
Strong Memorial Hospital
Rochester
Margaret M. Husk
W. Main St
Clifton Springs
David
Arquette
Alice Hyde’ Hospital
Franklin County
Betty Jean Lazare
Alice Hyde Hospital
Drum Street Road
Defense to get FBI tapes in Utica loansharking case
A judge ordered the U S attorney to provide the defense with transcripts and copies of FBI bug recordings in a Utica loansharking case involving five men accused of lending four thousand dollars at one thousand a month and using extortionate collection methods. The court would allow the defense to hear the original recordings in the U S attorney’s office and warned against fabricating evidence. The defendants include Albert Marrone Jack Zogby James Talerico Carl Mazza and Lewis Xing with a sixth man named John Doe. Separately Franc is Klein was sentenced to 20 years for a Troy bank robbery.
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U.S. Attorney’s Office
Utica
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Edmund Pott
U.S. District Court
Mer Syracuse
Port
New Year rush boosts Central New York liquor trade
Central New York’s liquor industry rides the holiday surge, supplying about 3,200 bars and 500 stores across a wide region from the North Country to Pennsylvania. Distributors report this as the season’s high point, with cautious optimism about this year’s performance, noting trends toward Scotch, Canadian whiskey, and wines, and stressing moderation and highway safety.
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Dan MacDonald
Syracuse
New York
North Country
Pennsylvania
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J. Schuyler Sackman
Syracuse Asst
U.S. Atty
Eugene Welch
Albert
CNY
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