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Wednesday, June 12, 2013  A Cicero-North Syracuse graduate, 20-year-old Connor Strader, of Cicero, is writing and directing a horror film to be shot and set in Central New York.

Wednesday, May 29, 2013  Senator Chuck Schumer was in Manlius Wednesday, calling upon Customs and Border Protection to collect fees from Chinese furniture companies who he says unfairly compete with U.S. furniture producers and damage businesses such as Manlius's Stickley Audi and Co. and McConnellsville’s Harden Furniture.

Friday, May 10, 2013  Workers have permanently installed the final sections of the silver spire atop One World Trade Center, which brings the iconic New York City structure to its full, symbolic height of 1,776 feet.

Friday, April 26, 2013  New York police have secured a lower Manhattan site where surveyors discovered what appears to be part of one of the planes destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks.

Friday, April 26, 2013  The developer of a proposed mosque and community center near ground zero has purchased a neighboring property.

Thursday, April 25, 2013  Facebook says that an independent audit found its privacy practices sufficient during a six-month assessment period that was part of a settlement with federal regulators.

Friday, March 29, 2013  Construction debris from the World Trade Center site will be sifted for any human remains from the 9/11 terrorist attacks starting Monday.

Wednesday, March 06, 2013  Some family members of Sept. 11 terror victims are angry over new flight-safety rules that will permit small knives on planes.

Tuesday, December 11, 2012  New York's highest court says street gangsters that commit assaults and murders are not terrorists under the statute enacted after hijackers crashed jets into the World Trade Center on 9/11.

Friday, November 23, 2012  Earlier openings, some on Thanksgiving, and the shoppers turn out

Friday, October 05, 2012  The Food and Drug Administration says it has found salmonella in a New Mexico plant that produces nut butters for national retailer Trader Joe's and several other grocery chains. The Trader Joe's peanut butter is now linked to 35 salmonella illnesses in 19 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.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012  A New Mexico-based company is recalling 76 types of peanut butter and almond butter after one of its products was linked to a salmonella outbreak at Trader Joe's groceries.

Thursday, September 20, 2012  Democratic congressional candidate Dan Maffei said the New Process Gear plant would still be open if the U.S. had different Fair Trade laws.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012  Even with no remembrance, people stop by Ryder Park memorial.