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City of Oswego
A 20-by-50-foot mural of a Lake Ontario sunset and the West Pierhead Lighthouse, installed Oct. 8, will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, the city says.
New York State
Jury selection begins at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19, in Schenectady County Court in the trial of a man, now 18, charged with murder in the 2022 killing of 14-year-old Samantha Humphrey, WNYT reported. Court documents say Humphrey and the defendant… Read more
Sports
Unranked Auburn beat No. 1 Georgia 27-24 on Saturday at Sanford Stadium on kicker Alex McPherson's 34-yard field goal, Awful Announcing reported. Auburn was a three-touchdown underdog, the site said, and improved to 4-2, 2-2 in the SEC, in Alex… Read more
Health
Kayem Foods Inc., of Chelsea, Massachusetts, is recalling approximately 1,584,361 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that may have experienced temperature abuse during storage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and… Read more
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A 20-by-50-foot mural of a Lake Ontario sunset and the West Pierhead Lighthouse, installed Oct. 8, will be dedicated at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20, the city says.
Oswego County Opportunities will hold its Giving Thanks Food and Beverage Pairing from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at the Lake Ontario Event and Conference Center, 26 E. First St. in Oswego, according to a news release from the organization… Read more
Oswego County Workforce New York will hold a free Work Incentive Seminar Event from 1 to 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 23, at its center at 200 N. Second St. in Fulton, according to a notice carried by Oswego County Today. It is for people who receive Social… Read more
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The Oswego County Office of Mobility Management is asking residents to suggest names for the four new buses it will add to its fleet next year, according to a county news release. Suggestions are due Thursday, Dec. 31, through the county's "Name… Read more
The Oswego County Office for the Aging will hold its "Medicare 101" session at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, in person at 74 Bunner St. in Oswego and on Zoom, according to a county news release. The session, held the fourth Thursday of each month and… Read more
The Cayuga County Health Department says a second measles case in a county resident has been confirmed through official laboratory testing, following a confirmed case it reported on Sept. 8, 2026, and other cases recently identified across Central… Read more
County residents can bring pumpkins to the Oswego County Department of Solid Waste's compost pile at the Bristol Hill Transfer Station, 3125 NYS Rte. 3 in Fulton, on Mondays through Thursdays from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturdays from 8 a.m. until… Read more
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New York will raise its personal income tax credit for volunteer firefighters and ambulance workers from $200 to $800 for individuals and from $400 to $1,600 for married couples under a law Gov. Kathy Hochul signed, WNYT reported. The higher credit… Read more
A man was shot and killed during an argument on a midtown Manhattan subway platform Saturday, the Associated Press reported in a story carried by WHEC. The shooting happened around 12:20 p.m. at the 7th Avenue and 53rd Street station, and a police… Read more
Jury selection begins at 9:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 19, in Schenectady County Court in the trial of a man, now 18, charged with murder in the 2022 killing of 14-year-old Samantha Humphrey, WNYT reported. Court documents say Humphrey and the defendant… Read more
Hundreds gathered at the Rochester Riverside Convention Center on Saturday night for the annual Golisano Children's Hospital Gala, which aimed to raise $2.5 million for a new integrated care center for children with serious medical needs, WHEC… Read more
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Organizers launched more than 2,500 "No Kings" events across all 50 states and the District of Columbia on Saturday, Oct. 17, this time focused on early voting for the midterm elections, Stateline reported. The activities ranged from roadside… Read more
Wichita police released the woman who drove a pickup truck onto a youth soccer field Saturday, killing two people, without charges while investigators await toxicology results and a mechanical examination of the truck, Fox News reported Sunday… Read more
Three children and a teacher were killed Thursday, Oct. 15, at Silver Rail Elementary School in Bend, Oregon, when a 16-year-old shot them, and the suspect is also dead, police said, according to OPB. Police said the children were 5, 8 and 11 years… Read more
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Pope Leo XIV told the crowd at St. Peter's Square on Sunday that he would "gradually assume" his duties, thanking people for their prayers and the medical staff at Rome's Gemelli Hospital, according to Deutsche Welle. The 71-year-old was discharged… Read more
Protesters gathered again on Sunday in front of Albania's Education Ministry in Tirana, chanting "Rama, resign," for a sixth consecutive day, and police later used water cannon and tear gas to hold them back, according to AFP in The Hindu and to Al… Read more
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned rioting during Saturday's cost-of-living protests, saying "Demonstrating is a right, but setting our cities on fire is not," Deutsche Welle reports. In Milan, at least four police officers and 20… Read more
Prime Minister Mark Carney said on Sunday that four service members were killed and dozens seriously injured in a fire at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright in Alberta on Saturday, calling it "one of the worst tragedies the Canadian Armed Forces have… Read more
French police battled protesters and looters for a second day on Sunday after Saturday's cost-of-living demonstrations, in which around 2,000 people were arrested nationwide, AFP reports; Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez put the figure at 1,800, per… Read more
Ukrainian drones hit St. Petersburg overnight into Sunday, setting fire to an oil terminal and an oil depot, killing one person and injuring five, according to the city's governor, Alexander Beglov, as reported by Reuters, the BBC and AP. Beglov… Read more
At least 17 people were killed and more were injured in a crush at an event in Kolkata marking the Hindu festival of Durga Puja, officials say, according to the BBC. Witnesses said sudden rain prompted a surge of people to seek shelter; a senior… Read more
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Apple has updated its App Review Guidelines to require apps to proactively prevent and remove nonconsensual intimate imagery, including imagery generated with AI tools, the company said Friday in a developer news post. Developers who fail to put… Read more
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Robert Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University won this year's Nobel Prize in economics "for microeconomic foundations of macroeconomic stabilization," the prize committee announced Monday, NPR reported. Committee… Read more
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GlobalFoundries has been selected as technology provider and operator for two new semiconductor fabs at its Malta, New York, site under a U.S.-Japan trade and investment initiative in which Japan will provide up to $21 billion, the company… Read more
Arby's has appointed Jenna Bromberg as chief marketing officer, effective Nov. 2, according to a company blog post cited by Restaurant Dive and Marketing Dive. Bromberg was most recently CMO at Papa Johns, which she left in August after less than… Read more
Publix announced Wednesday that it promoted senior vice president and CIO Laurie Douglas to executive vice president and chief information and digital officer, effective Jan. 1, 2027, CIO Dive and Grocery Dive reported. The grocer also announced… Read more
California's average on-highway diesel price was $8.09 a gallon Monday, up 1 cent from a week earlier, the Energy Information Administration reported, after peaking around $8.25 in recent weeks in September, according to Trucking Dive. California… Read more
Sprouts Farmers Market's first chief technology officer, Jim Bahrenburg, has resigned, according to a Monday securities filing, CIO Dive and Grocery Dive reported. Bahrenburg, who held the role for three years, will serve as an advisor through… Read more
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A clear, calm night with a low near 38, then sunshine and a high near 61 on Monday. High pressure keeps the whole week dry, with afternoons in the upper 50s.
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Bournemouth beat 10-man Sunderland 2-0 at the Vitality Stadium on Sunday for their first Premier League win of the season, with Marcus Tavernier scoring in the sixth minute and Evanilson in the 48th, Sky Sports reported. Sunderland's Kevin Danso… Read more
An Air Force officer died after falling from the rafters of the Alamodome while rappelling during a pregame display before the University of Texas at San Antonio's home game against Navy on Saturday, the Guardian reported. Nellis Air Force Base… Read more
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Stanford University researchers report that bleached corals recovered fully in seven weeks, the fastest documented recovery to date, after being placed in contact with healthy, genetically identical clones, KQED reported. The work was done on… Read more
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OMass Therapeutics, based in Oxford, U.K., now has $310 million in financing to support a pipeline led by OMS1620, a drug candidate in development for congenital adrenal hyperplasia, MedCity News reported. CAH is an inherited condition in which… Read more
Allswell, a behavioral health company for the LGBTQ+ community, announced Wednesday that it raised $7 million in seed funding led by Rethink Impact, MedCity News reported. The company provides one-on-one virtual therapy, group programs and… Read more
Kayem Foods Inc., of Chelsea, Massachusetts, is recalling approximately 1,584,361 pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products that may have experienced temperature abuse during storage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and… Read more
UPMC Enterprises, the innovation and venture arm of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, announced Wednesday that it has made a strategic investment in VeloSource, a St. Louis-based healthcare workforce solutions provider, MedCity News… Read more
Conspiracy theories curated and generated for ironic comedic purposes.
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I have been watching Etna.
They called it a base camp.
I was in a cathedral last month — I am not going to say which one — and I clapped my hands in the nave. I do this in large buildings. Most people find it odd. I think most people are not listening.
I have been keeping my grocery receipts. All of them. Fourteen months of loyalty card purchases, sorted by date, in a spreadsheet, because the discounts did not look random to me. They are not.
