Police dog bites child at festival incident in Syracuse
A 12 year old girl was bitten by a Syracuse police dog during a Southwest Showcase Sunday demonstration. The dog Hikam ignored kicks while the officer tried to stop it after a bystander waved a white towel triggering the attack. April Loftin was taken to University Hospital. father Tyrone Loftin and mother Erika Watson call for an internal affairs investigation.
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Southwest Side
Syracuse
Bill Foster
Hikam
Rathbun
Pyrone Loftin
April
Tyrone Lotti
Tyrone Lottin
University Hospital
Tyrone Loftin
Therese Lore
Police Department
Lore
Foster
Southwest Showcase
Jubilee Park
South Avenue
West Onondaga
Tallman Streets
Erika Watson
Internal Affairs Office
Fire damages city home under repair in Syracuse
A vacant Syracuse house at 182 Forest Ave. burned around 8 p.m. Sunday while Mary Ashford, 521 Cortland Ave., worked on refinishing floors. No residents were present. one woman was shaken. Investigators consider materials used for refinishing as a possible ignition source. fire started on the second floor.
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Syracuse
Mary Ashford
Cortland Ave
Forest Ave
Pauline Eggers
Ashford
Eggers
Bob Nelson
Jehovah's Witnesses End District Convention at War Memorial
More than 4000 attendees daily from Central New York joined a three day Jehovah's Witnesses convention at the War Memorial drawing participants from Rochester and Pennsylvania. Baptism and ordination ceremonies occurred on both Saturdays and the event concluded Sunday.
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New York
War Memorial
Rochester
Pennsylvania
Fan saves stadium seats becomes backyard footstools
At the final Syracuse Chiefs game at MacArthur Stadium on September 2, 10,262 fans watched as Forrest Habicht and family took home a seat-back chunk, a lump of dirt from the mound, and a 1 by 6 inch sod piece. Habicht fashioned the seat-back into a footstool within a day, while the dirt and sod found spots in their home and yard. The Habichts earned pride from the memorabilia amid renovations.
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MacArthur Stadium
Syracuse Chiefs
Pawtucket
Forrest Habicht
Joan
Charles
Marty Grundner
Habichts
Habicht
Riverdale Road
Clay
Forrest
Joan Habicht
Bullets Shatter Bedroom Window Near Baker Avenue
Kathleen Whitlock awoke to rapid gunfire as bullets pierced her second floor bedroom while she and her two children slept. Police say the shots were aimed at a passing van, but the stray bullets left Whitlock terrified and wounded by near misses in a neighborhood on Baker Avenue.
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Kathleen Winnlock
Baker Avenue
Whitlock
HUD official to tour Syracuse vacant housing sites
Federal housing official Joe McCloskey will visit Syracuse on Tuesday to inspect HUD vacant and boarded up homes on the south and near west sides and hear residents’ concerns about blight. He will meet neighbors at 7 p.m. at LaFayette Avenue United Methodist Church.
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Syracuse
Joe McCloskey
HUD
McCloskey
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Chicago
Indianapolis
Cleveland
Syracuse United Neighbors
McC
Prehn
McClash
LaFayette Avenue United Methodist Church
Midland Ave
Syra-Cube
Cortland County fifth in pesticide use in state
The New York State DEC reports Cortland County had the fifth highest total pesticide use among counties, led by Brooklyn Nassau Manhattan Suffolk, with Cortland logging 962.68 pounds from commercial applicators and 939,280 pounds of a wood preservative containing pesticides. The data comes under the states 1996 pesticide reporting law, aiming to link pesticide exposure to health issues such as breast cancer.
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Cortland County
New York
Newark City
State Department of Environmental Conservation
DEC
Onondaga County
Actly
Sam Thornstrom
Judith Enck
New York Public Interest Research Group
Albany
Enck
John P. Cahill
Cahill
Brooklyn
Nassau
Manhattan
Suffolk
Cortland
Sehuvier
Ouluven
LdLes
Uisego
Leans
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Gloria Wright
Montanelle
Rocket
METRO
Jehovah’s Witnesses End District Meeting
Dennis Nett
Tore
Onondaga Yacht Club
Onondaga Lake
Karl Ashley
Baldwinsville Lions Club
Lions Community Park
Tra
CK Ordonez
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