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Wednesday, April 03, 2013  The North Korean army is warning Washington that its military has been cleared to wage an attack using "smaller, lighter and diversified nuclear" weapons.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013  A vigil was held Tuesday afternoon in Syracuse to mark the 10th anniversary of Dr. Rafil Dhafir’s arrest. Dhafir was convicted of tax evasion, money laundering and violating US sanctions imposed on Iraq related to charity he set up to help needy children in Iraq.

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

Monday, July 23, 2012  The NCAA has slammed Penn State with an unprecedented series of penalties, including a $60 million fine and the loss of all coach Joe Paterno's victories from 1998-2011, in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.

Friday, February 03, 2012  More than six years after a controversial case that began with prosecutors talking about money being funneled to terrorists, Manlius doctor Rafil Dhafir has been resentenced, but not the way his supporters wanted.

Thursday, June 10, 2010  The NCAA imposed an immediate sanction of a loss of two basketball scholarships for the Orange basketball team.

Monday, March 22, 2010  Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is vowing that the Obama administration will not accept a nuclear armed Iran and is now working on sanctions "that will bite" to press it to come clean about its suspect atomic program.