Category: Hot News, State/National News
Obama Unveils Plans for Aggressive Criminal Justice Reforms
By Hazel Trice Edney (TriceEdneyWire.com) – For the $80 billion that America spends annually to keep people incarcerated, the nation...
Former Officer Indicted, Pleads “Not Guilty” in Killing of Samuel DuBose
By Staff Former University of Cincinnati Police Officer Ray Tensing, a white police officer, pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges...
Judge Denies Common Council’s Request for City to Restore Computer Access
By Staff A judge has denied a request from Syracuse Common Councilors, and city clerk John Copanas, for an injunction against Mayor...
Bobbi Kristina Brown Passes Away at 22
By Staff After being found face-down in the bathtub at her townhouse outside Atlanta Jan. 31, Bobbi Kristina Brown, the late...
CNY Vision: Q&A With Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie
CNY Vision President and Publisher Dave McCleary sat down with New York State Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie in Syracuse, July 22, during...
New York Set to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour
By Staff A state wage board appointed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo recommended July 22 that the minimum wage for fast-food chain restaurant...
Removal of Confederate Flag from S.C. Capitol Grounds Seen as ‘New Day’
By Jane A. Kennedy (TriceEdneyWire.com) – If Dylann Storm Roof had not massacred nine African-Americans who’d gathered for...
NYC Settles Case with Eric Garner’s Family for $5.9 Million
By Staff The family of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died last year when an NYPD officer held him on the ground in an...
City Formally Opens Sankofa Park
By Staff Mayor Stephanie Miner, New York State Senator David Valesky, Fourth District Common Councilor Khalid Bey, and other local...
Miner: Body Found In Sewer Identified As Brandon Closure
By Staff Sewer workers walking in a storm sewer beneath Erie Blvd. in downtown Syracuse found the body of Brandon Closure July 2,...
