Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, center, speaks during a press conference where Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, left, and Zephyr Teachout, right, pitched an ethics reform blueprint plan on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. less Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, center, speaks during a press conference where Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, left, and Zephyr Teachout, right, pitched an ethics reform blueprint ... more Stephanie Miner, the former Syracuse mayor and one-time ally of Gov. Andrew Cuomo, announced that she's mounting an independent bid for governor. "The price of politics as usual and the cost of corruption is weighing us all down.
Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, center, speaks during a press conference where Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, left, and Zephyr Teachout, right, pitched an ethics reform blueprint plan on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. less Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, center, speaks during a press conference where Susan Lerner, executive director of Common Cause New York, left, and Zephyr Teachout, right, pitched an ethics reform blueprint ... more Zephyr Teachout, right, listens to Susan Lerner executive director of Common Cause New York, left background, and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner, foreground, prior to holding a press conference where the trio pitched an ethics reform blueprint plan on Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, at the Capitol in Albany, N.Y. less Zephyr Teachout, right, listens to Susan Lerner executive director of Common Cause New York, left ... (more)
Democrat Juanita Perez Williams, left, Republican Laura Lavine, independent candidate Ben Walsh, and Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins, are the 2017 candidates for Syracuse mayor. and Walsh are firmly ahead of Republican Laura Lavine Working Families Party candidate Joe Nicoletti and the Green Party's Howie Hawkins , according to the poll of likely Syracuse voters.
In this November 2014 photo, Lawrence J. Reilly Sr., a U.S. Navy veteran of World War ll and the Vietnam War, sits in the living room of his home in Syracuse, N.Y. He and his 20-year-old son Lawrence J. Reilly Jr. were serving together on U.S. Navy destroyer Frank E. Evans when the ship was cut in half in a collision with the aircraft carrier HMAS Melbourne of the Royal Australian Navy during joint maneuvers in the South China Sea. Seventy-four sailors died but the Pentagon has rejected a longstanding request from survivors of the disaster to add the names of their fallen comrades to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., saying the accident occurred outside the Vietnam combat zone.
County Executive Joanie Mahoney called the ongoing conversation over Syracuse's status as a "sanctuary city" a manufactured controversy designed to score political points. Mahoney Friday suggested Mayor Stephanie Miner's declaration that Syracuse is a sanctuary is part of a campaign for higher office.
The mysterious all-white plane doing touch-and-goes at Syracuse Hancock International Airport on Wednesday belongs to a secretive Air National Guard squadron whose missions are classified. The C-32, a modified Boeing 757-200 passenger airliner, belongs to the 150th Special Operations Squadron of the 108th Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard, said Lt.