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Wednesday, May 08, 2013  Starting this fall, SUNY ESF students will have a different way to get around campus and into downtown.

Monday, May 06, 2013  New York's Nassau County is no longer using condoms as evidence in prostitution cases.

Friday, April 26, 2013  George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today," has died. He was 81.

Monday, April 22, 2013  The village of Canastota is the first official "Trail Town" along New York's stretch of the North Country Trail

Thursday, April 18, 2013  NASA's planet-hunting telescope has discovered two planets that seem like places for some sort of life to flourish. They are just the right size and in just the right place near their star.

Monday, April 15, 2013  It wasn't a day to be home sick from school as local sixth graders had the rare chance to get their hands on moon rocks on loan from NASA.

Sunday, March 17, 2013  A Canastota man is dead after his vehicle drove off the road and hit several trees before rolling over on Route 31 in the Town of Verona at 10:25 am on Friday, March 15, according to State Police.

Monday, February 25, 2013  Printing out body parts? A Cornell University professor has developed a way to make replacement ears using 3-D imaging, 3-D printing and injections of living cells.

Tuesday, February 12, 2013  Gov. Andrew Cuomo says the state will spend $3.6 million to create four new food distribution hubs across upstate New York, creating 150 jobs and giving farmers new opportunities to get their products to consumers.

Monday, February 11, 2013  Uncle Sam statues will begin popping up this spring in the upstate New York city that lays claim to being the birthplace of the iconic symbol for the United States.

Tuesday, January 29, 2013  James Mason, of Canastota, won $5 million from a New York Lottery scratch-off ticket.

Monday, January 14, 2013  The Columbia University professor who wrote "A Beautiful Mind" has filed suit against the school over almost $1 million that she says she's owed

Thursday, January 10, 2013  The state police in Marcy are investigating a burglary that happened on Friday December 28, 2012

Sunday, December 23, 2012  Their home reduced to rubble, a Lafayette family who lost everything when their house caught fire on Thursday feel blessed to be alive today.

Monday, December 10, 2012  The late Arturo Gatti and five-time world champion Virgil Hill have been elected to the International Boxing Hall of Fame.