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Friday, June 14, 2013  A woman convicted of poisoning her husband and attempting to murder her daughter was back in Onondaga County Court on Friday.

Tuesday, June 04, 2013  A judge has accepted James Holmes plea of not guilty by reason of insanity in the Colorado theater shootings.

Monday, June 03, 2013  New York City's campaign to cut consumption of sugary drinks now features ads warning people about sweet teas, sports and energy drinks and fruit-flavored beverages.

Friday, May 24, 2013  A six month old baby who was at the center of a dispute over child protection in Oswego County is now living with her father and paternal grandparents because the mother is in jail.

Thursday, May 23, 2013  County sheriffs have asked to join the federal lawsuit challenging New York's tough new gun restrictions, calling some provisions vague and impossible to enforce fairly.

Thursday, May 23, 2013  The attorney for a man charged with raping a 10-year-old girl and killing her mother in an upstate New York carjacking wants to add an expert on death penalty cases to the defense team in case federal prosecutors bring more charges and seek his execution.

Thursday, May 23, 2013  A state judge has ordered a company in northern New York to stop selling service dogs that its owner claims help people who suffer from seizures by sensing them in advance and signaling for help.

Wednesday, May 15, 2013  The Camillus Clean Air Coalition asked a federal judge to stop Honeywell from dumping sediment dredged from Onondaga Lake at Wastebed 13 in Camillus. Arguments in the case were heard in federal court in Syracuse on Friday morning.

Thursday, May 02, 2013  Middle and high school students from all over Central New York got their day in court during the Onondaga County Law Day celebration.

Sunday, April 28, 2013  The arrest of a 41-year-old Mississippi martial arts instructor in a probe of poison-laced letters sent to President Barack Obama and others capped a week in which investigators initially zeroed in on a different man.

Thursday, April 25, 2013  The New York State Court of Appeals said Thursday that it has upheld the Commission on Judicial Conduct’s removal of former Family Court Judge Bryan R. Hedges for allegedly engaging in a sexual encounter with his 5-year old niece, in 1972, before he was a judge.

Thursday, April 18, 2013  A U.S. Senator is outraged that the Federal Probation Office apparently ignored dozens of alerts set off by David Renz's GPS monitoring bracelet, indicating it had been tampered with.

Tuesday, April 09, 2013  A Lebanon Town Justice and Elmira City Court judge have resigned after being served with formal disciplinary charges.

Friday, April 05, 2013  An Oswego County man faces life in prison after admitting he killed a Geddes woman in her home last fall.