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Friday, March 22, 2013  Federal prosecutors say a 66-year-old upstate New York man has admitted to having thousands of images of child pornography on his computer.

Tuesday, February 05, 2013  A 66-year-old central New York man has been sentenced to 2½ years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.4 million for staging a car crash to collect insurance.

Wednesday, January 16, 2013  A central New York man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for having thousands of child pornography images on his computer and distributing the images to others on the Internet.

Friday, October 19, 2012  Authorities say a postal worker has admitted stealing prescription drugs out of the mail in northern New York.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012  A 59-year-old man has been sentenced to more than three years in prison for sending threatening letters to four New York judges while he was an inmate.

Thursday, August 16, 2012  Law enforcement officials have scheduled a news conference to discuss details of what they're calling a major drug trafficking investigation in the Southern Tier.

Friday, July 27, 2012  Federal prosecutors say more than a dozen people have been indicted in connection with a large-scale cocaine distribution ring operating in Central New York.

Tuesday, June 26, 2012  Authorities say a northern New York postmaster stole more than $51,000 in money orders to feed a heroin addiction.

Tuesday, September 27, 2011  A man convicted along with six co-defendants in a federal cocaine trafficking case in East Tennessee has been sentenced to life in prison.

Saturday, July 30, 2011  The U.S. Attorney's office is pursuing federal charges in the shooting death of local athlete Kihary Blue, and those charges make the shooting a "death penalty eligible crime."

Thursday, January 06, 2011  A Syracuse man has been indicted by a federal Grand Jury after officials say he shot another man during a drug deal.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010  A number of federal agents with the Environmental Protection Agency have raided the offices of Upstate Laboratories in East Syracuse.