The New York Lottery today announced there were multiple\ntop-prize winning tickets sold for the Feb 9 TAKE-5 drawing. The tickets were\nsold in Oneonta, Jamaica Queens, & Tonawanda. The Oneonta tickets were sold at the\nMirabito’s at 167 Oneida Street, which sold 1 prize winning ticket worth\n$17,859.50. Take 5 numbers are drawn\nevery evening at 11:21 PM, winning tickets at all prize levels may be cashed up\nto one year from the date of the drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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22 year old Brandon Clark pleaded Guilty today in Oneida\nCounty Court for the murder of 17-year-old Bianca Devins of Utica. Clark pleaded guilty to 2nd-degree murder, he\nadmitted to stabbing and killing Devins on July 14 in Utica and posting photos\nof her body on social media. Clark faces 25 years to life in prison when he is\nsentenced later this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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2 proposals have been forwarded in the State Senate\nregarding changes to the Daylight Savings Time system. State Senator Jim Seward introduced a bill\nthat would create a task force to study the impact and effects of eliminating\nDaylight Saving Time in New York, while State Senator James Skoufis of the 39th\nSenate District introduced a bill that would move the state to Atlantic\nStandard Time, eliminating the need to turn clocks ahead or back. Both bills would have to still be passed by\nthe State Assembly and State Senate before being delivered to Governor Andrew\nCuomo for him to either veto or approve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Governor Cuomo proposed to put together a task force to\nstudy the issue of bringing High Speed rail to the state. The first high-speed rail system began\noperations in Japan in 1964, with the famous \u201cbullet train.\u201d High speed rail is also prevalent across\nChina & throughout Europe, in the US, the closest to a high speed rail line\nis the Acela Express, running between New York City and Washington D.C. & reaches\na top speed of 150mph, but averages only 66 miles per hour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Attorney General Letitia James today filed a lawsuit against\nthe Trump Administration over a new federal policy that prohibits New Yorkers\nfrom enrolling or reenrolling in the federal government’s Trusted Traveler\nPrograms. The suit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security & the\nU.S. Customs and Border Protection argues that the policy change was made as a\nresult of an arbitrary process that poses a threat to New Yorkers’ safety and\nthe state’s economy. Economists have\nestimated that border delays on the U.S.\/Canada border have already cost\nAmerican businesses billions of dollars & resulted in jobs loss, especially\nin Western New York, where New Yorkers seeking to commute across the border\ninto Canada & back has been severely hampered by the Trump policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Lawmakers continue to work on a variety of issues in Albany,\nincluding the controversial Bail reform Law, Local Assemblyman Cliff crouch\ncomments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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So far, there have been numerous\ninstances of people leaving court after being freed on only an appearance\nticket, and immediately committing a crime, something that would not have\nhappened last year. In Delaware County,\na suspected MS-13 Gang member was released from the County Jail, Stole a County\nemployee’s vehicle in the parking lot & was arrested in Stamford about 30\nminutes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Fire destroyed a mobile home at 2571 Colesville Road in\nHarpursville Friday night. Firefighters\nresponded to the 6:30 PM call & the structure was full involved, no one was\nhome when the fire broke out, the cause of the blaze remains under\ninvestigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Samples from 22 New Yorkers have been sent to the CDC, so\nfar 16 have come back negative for the corona virus, 6 were pending, and there\nare still no confirmed cases of the coronavirus in New York State. The State Health Department said that the\nnumber of flu cases continues to rise, Last week 1,889 New Yorkers were\nhospitalized with lab-confirmed influenza; there have been 13,460 flu-related\nhospitalizations. Last week, 17,231\nlaboratory-confirmed flu cases were reported to the State Department of Health,\na 15% increase from the week before. \nThere have been a total of 89,597 lab-confirmed cases in New York State\nthis season, with 3 flu-associated pediatric deaths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Spectrum announced that their service has been restored to\nthe entire Northeast. Spectrum officials\nsaid a damaged fiber optic cable is what caused the outage, which affected\nservice in Upstate New York, Maine and New Hampshire. Frontier, Verizon, Sprint, and AT&T were\nalso affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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The New York Lottery today announced there were multiple top-prize winning tickets sold for the Feb 9 TAKE-5 drawing. The tickets were sold in Oneonta, Jamaica Queens, & Tonawanda. The Oneonta tickets were sold at the Mirabito’s at 167 Oneida … Continue reading