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Monday, May 06, 2013  A New Hartford teen is accused of driving drunk after he crash into a police vehicle early Saturday morning in Utica.

Friday, April 26, 2013  If you were a patient at Upstate University Hospital, your personal information may have been compromised.

Wednesday, March 06, 2013  Add cranked-up earphones to the list of health dangers Mayor Michael Bloomberg wants New Yorkers to quit.

Monday, February 25, 2013  The number of people participating in 401k retirement plans reached an all-time high last year.

Wednesday, February 13, 2013  The Syracuse City School District is moving forward with a plan to add public safety cameras to the neighborhoods near schools

Wednesday, January 30, 2013  National Grid is warning their customers that scammers are calling and identifying themselves as National Grid employees in order to get personal banking or credit card numbers.

Wednesday, October 24, 2012  Barnes & Noble Inc. says devices customers use to swipe credit and debit cards have been tampered with in 63 of its stores in nine states.

Thursday, October 04, 2012  The Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning about a new computer scam that's tricked tens of thousands of people into giving up personal information to scammers posing as technical support employees.

Monday, September 10, 2012  Kodak is reshuffling some executives and continuing to cut jobs as the pioneering photography company tries to emerge from bankruptcy protection.

Thursday, September 06, 2012  The City of Oswego is enforcing an ordinance which mandates life jackets to be worn by fishermen near the Varick Dam on the Oswego River.

Wednesday, September 05, 2012  The FBI is disputing a computer hacker group's claim that it stole personal identification data on millions of Apple device owners from an FBI agent's laptop.

Monday, August 20, 2012  Doctors say an unhealthy disorder is on the rise - over-exercising. Some people obsessively, compulsively exercise to the point that it can interfere with work and personal relationships, and even cause serious injury.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012  Madison County is moving ahead with an expanded ban on smoking, even after receiving a scathing letter from the Village of Wampsville accusing the county of stepping on individual rights and freedoms.

Friday, August 10, 2012  Police say a 3-year-old boy has died after a personal watercraft he was riding on with his mother hit a concrete break wall on an upstate New York lake.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012  It can be an easy task for identity thieves to get private information from your computer if you don't properly delete those files. Simply emptying your desktop trash folder doesn't do it. So how can you protect yourself?