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Tuesday, June 04, 2013  New York's highest court has thrown out a Syracuse man's confession to killing his girlfriend although it was made with his lawyer present because it followed 49 hours of sleepless interrogation by tag teams of detectives.

Friday, May 03, 2013  Newtown, Conn., officials are meeting to discuss what to do with the elementary school where 20 first-graders and six educators were shot to death in December, but they might not vote.

Wednesday, March 27, 2013  Two Seneca County men are accused of killing cats with a rifle.

Thursday, March 14, 2013  People close to the investigation tell The Associated Press that the gunman in the Connecticut school massacre showed interest in other mass killings.

Thursday, February 21, 2013  An 18-year-old man who served time in a juvenile detention facility for killing his father five years ago has been arrested in New York City.

Friday, February 15, 2013  A flier on the department's website promoting the contest lists a youth category for those 14-years-old or younger. It also promotes a gun drawing raffle and cash prizes for the largest squirrel and for the heaviest group of five squirrels.

Monday, December 10, 2012  A Baldwinsville man has pleaded guilty to murdering his wife.

Friday, November 09, 2012  University of Utah professor Beverly Brehl was back teaching her class only seven days after doctors placed microscopic cancer-killing spheres into her bloodstream.

Thursday, October 25, 2012  Ryan Brahney was sentenced to 54 years to life in state prison, the maximum sentence, for the brutal killing of his former girlfriend Bridget Bell last year.

Tuesday, October 23, 2012  President Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, faced off in the last of three presidential debates on Monday night.

Wednesday, October 17, 2012  24-year-old Deon Farley was given 1 and a third to 4 years in state prison for criminally negligent homicide.

Monday, October 01, 2012  A Virginia man is fighting extradition to western New York, where he's accused of killing a school district superintendent.

Monday, October 01, 2012  The trial that will decide the fate of Ryan Brahney, an Auburn man accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Bridget Bell in November of 2011, begins Monday in Cayuga County Court.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012  A 35-year-old upstate New York man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for killing a mother of six while she worked at a group home for the developmentally disabled nearly two decades ago.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012  A Binghamton woman has been found guilty of beating her 2-year-old son to death in 2010.