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But many Syracuse residents feel that a potential threat to their health is being ignored. “This is morally outrageous.”City officials say that more than 14,000 homes receive water from lead pipes, which comprises about a quarter of residences citywide. In Syracuse, officials say there is no lead in the lake that provides drinking water to residents. That’s faster than EPA guidelines that call for lead pipes to be replaced within a decade. Activists hope Syracuse officials will learn lessons from the Flint water crisis, during which almost 30,000 children drank and bathed in lead-laced water before the EPA stepped in.

Persons: retesting, Maureen Murphy, Mike Groll, ”, Erik Olson, NRDC, Greg Loh, Loh, “ We’ve, ” Loh, Robert Brandt, ” Brandt, Oceanna, Fair, Ella, it’s, Dr, Nicole Brescia, Ella’s, Kyla Guilfoil, Erin McLaughlin, Emily Berk, Elizabeth Chuck Organizations: Syracuse City Hall, Environmental Protection Agency, Centers for Disease Control, CDC, EPA, Natural Resources Defense Council, Syracuse, NBC News, New York State Department of Health, Water, Oceanna, Health Department Locations: SYRACUSE, New York, Flint , Michigan, Syracuse, N.Y, Flint, Michigan, week’s, “, Onondaga County

☆ How Native American Lacrosse Sticks Are Carved From Hickory Wood
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-04 | by ( Amanda Paule | Noah Lewis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: 1 min

Native Americans began playing lacrosse as a spiritual and social activity more than 1,000 years ago. Their lacrosse sticks were made of wood and had sacred meaning. But many Indigenous stick artisans went out of business when plastic and aluminum replaced wood in the 1970s. He's crafted more than 80,000 sticks by hand, and he's one of the last people who knows how to make them this way. This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers.

Persons: Alfie Jacques, He's, Alfie's Organizations: Business Locations: Onondaga

☆ 2 Police Officers Are Killed in Shootout Near Syracuse, N.Y.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-15 | by ( Jin Yu Young | More About Jin Yu Young | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Two police officers were killed in a shootout on Sunday evening as they investigated a stolen vehicle in an upstate New York town near Syracuse, the authorities said. The two officers were investigating a parked vehicle in Salina, N.Y., when a suspect shot at them, Syracuse Police Chief Joseph L. Cecile told reporters early Monday morning. Several people were shot in the ensuing shootout, including an officer from the Syracuse Police Department, a sheriff’s deputy from Onondaga County and one male suspect, the police said. Those three were later pronounced dead at a nearby hospital. Earlier in the evening, around 7 p.m.., two Syracuse officers tried to stop what they had determined to be a suspicious vehicle, but the driver drove off, the police said.

Persons: Joseph L, Cecile Organizations: Syracuse Police, Syracuse Police Department, Syracuse Locations: New York, Syracuse, Salina , N.Y, Onondaga County

☆ Why a Native American Nation Is Challenging the U.S. Over a 1794 Treaty
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-15 | by ( Grace Ashford | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Four or five years ago, Sidney Hill’s young son came to him with a question that Mr. Hill didn’t know how to answer. “We lost all this land,” Mr. Hill recalled his son saying. “How can that be?”In many ways, Mr. Hill was the best person to answer that question. As Tadodaho, the spiritual leader of the Onondaga Nation, he was responsible for protecting its legacy and guiding it into the future. The younger generation needed to know, he said.

Persons: Sidney Hill’s, Hill, “, ” Organizations: State, Onondaga Nation Locations: Onondaga, New York, Syracuse

☆ Lacrosse Is Coming to the Olympics. Will Its Inventors Be There?
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-19 | by ( Victor Mather | More About Victor Mather | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

At major lacrosse events, a team of Native Americans called the Haudenosaunee plays alongside countries like the United States, Canada and Australia. Now lacrosse has achieved an international breakthrough by being added to the Olympics for the Summer Games in Los Angeles in 2028. And both the United States and Canada already have lacrosse teams of their own. Although lacrosse officials seemed eager to find a way to get the team to the Olympics, the International Olympic Committee, which will have the final say, had discouraging words, at least for now. It said the United States and Canada would be able to include athletes from the Haudenosaunee in their respective teams.

Organizations: Olympics, Summer Games, International Olympic Committee, United Nations, Olympic Locations: United States, Canada, Australia, Los Angeles, New York, Ontario, Quebec, Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Seneca, Tuscarora, United

☆ Anguish in an Immigrant Community After a Sheriff’s Deputy Kills 2 Teens
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-18 | by ( Jesse Mckinley | More About Jesse Mckinley | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — They buried them both on Saturday: a pair of identical gray coffins, wheeled out of a hillside church and into the adopted hometown of many of the mourners. For many, however, that sense of security was shaken early on the morning of Sept. 6, when the two teenagers were shot and killed by a Onondaga County’s sheriff’s deputy responding to a call of suspicious activity at a parking lot in neighboring DeWitt, N.Y. The authorities had been investigating reports of two stolen cars and a burglary at a local smoke shop in the hours before the shooting. The Onondaga County sheriff, Tobias Shelley, said in a news conference that the deputy — identified as John Rosello, 34 — had been investigating the burglary and believed the car to be the one involved in that crime. After receiving the call of suspicious activity, the deputy arrived at the parking lot and shot into the car three times as it sped away, with the teenagers inside, after it drove toward him.

Persons: Dhal, Lueth Mo, Tobias Shelley, John Rosello, — Organizations: South Locations: SYRACUSE, N.Y, —, South Sudanese, Syracuse, New York, Onondaga, DeWitt, Onondaga County

☆ These states will pay you to build a tiny home in your backyard
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-21 | by ( Kelsey Neubauer | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Building backyard tiny homes can be expensive. There are three states that will help with the cost, by providing homeowners with grant money. These backyard homes, called accessory dwelling units, or ADUs, are small housing units that homeowners can build on their property. In California, where most backyard homes are being built, ADU building permits cost anywhere from $450 to $15,000 — even before construction starts, according to Backyard Unlimited, a company that builds ADUs. Insider reached out to all 50 states to learn which pay homeowners to build ADUs.

Persons: you've, there's, Joyce Higashi's ADU, Kelsey Neubauer, Vermonters Organizations: Service, Backyard, Department, California Housing Finance, California Housing Finance Agency New, AMI, York State's Homes, York State Homes, Community Renewal, Champlain Housing Trust, Community Development, Windsor Housing Trust, Vermont Housing, of Housing, Community Locations: Wall, Silicon, California, California Housing Finance Agency New York, Monroe , New York, Hudson, New York City, Onondaga County, Syracuse, York, Community Renewal Vermont, Burlington , Vermont, Vermont, Champlain, Western Vermont, Windham, Windsor

☆ The US promised the Cherokee Nation a seat in Congress in a treaty that fueled the Trail of Tears. 188 years later, the Cherokee say lawmakers may finally fulfill that promise.
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +10 min

The Cherokee Nation was promised a seat in Congress in the 1835 Treaty of New Echota. The Cherokee Nation appears closer than ever to finally seating a delegate. She said lawmakers asked tough questions, but she felt "very optimistic" the Cherokee delegate was something the committee ultimately supported. The Cherokee Nation is continuing to galvanize support and encourages US citizens to reach out to their representatives in Congress and tell them to fulfill the treaty promise. "I think the stars are aligned for a Cherokee Nation delegate to be seated," she said.

☆ 3 arrested following fatal shooting of 11-year-old girl killed in drive-by walking home from store
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-27 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

Three people were arrested in the death of an 11-year-old girl who was killed in a drive-by shooting as she walked home from a nearby corner store, Syracuse, New York, police said. Brexialee Torres-Ortiz had left her home on Jan. 16 to buy a carton of milk for her family. She was returning home when the suspects allegedly opened fire from a car, targeting a 19-year-old boy. The third suspect, an unidentified 16-year-old boy, was arrested in Lincolndale, New York, with the assistance of state police, authorities in Syracuse tweeted Friday morning. Fitzpatrick said the 16-year-old was a "resident of a juvenile facility" and was on furlough from the facility on the day Brexialee was killed.

☆ Biden to warn Republicans will boost inflation in Syracuse
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-27 | by ( Nandita Bose | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

Biden will visit Syracuse, New York, where Micron Technology plans to invest up to $100 billion in computer chip manufacturing, part of tens of billions in new factory spending announced after Biden signed the CHIPS Act subsidizing the industry in August. In Syracuse, Biden will lay out his efforts to rebuild the American middle class and bring manufacturing jobs back to upstate New York, and contrast them with what he has called Republicans' "mega MAGA trickle down agenda." Senior administration officials said Wednesday he will say the Republican economic plans will benefit the super wealthy and increase inflation. Earlier this week, Biden warned Republicans would cause 'chaos' in the world's largest economy. Syracuse's surrounding Onondaga County voted nearly 60% for Biden in the 2020 presidential election.

☆ Drop of blood leads to arrest of N.Y. man accused of killing former in-laws more than 30 years ago
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Minyvonne Burke | Minyvonne Burke Is A Senior Breaking News Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

A drop of blood led to the arrest of a New York man who is suspected of killing his former in-laws more than 30 years ago. Catherine and George Peacock. Vermont State PoliceHe is accused of killing George Peacock, 76, and Catherine Peacock, 73, at their Danby, Vermont, home on Sept. 17, 1989, Vermont State Police announced in a news release. "The blood sample had been tested previously during the investigation, as DNA testing technology was emerging, and that earlier test had been inconclusive," police said in the release. Advancements in DNA testing have been used to help law enforcement solve a slew of cold cases.

☆ Special elections are confusing, chaotic messes that bleed taxpayers — and could often be avoided if politicians quit before leveling up, flaming out, or dropping dead
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-18 | by ( Grace Panetta | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +23 min

Young's death triggered an unprecedented series of three statewide votes — a special primary, a special general election held along with a regular primary, and a regular general election — within five months. The Alaska special election is just one of the more than 120 congressional special elections conducted over the past two decades, an Insider analysis found. Special elections bombard votersSpecial elections routinely attract special attention. Rebecca Blackwell/APIn 2022, special elections are 'a perfect storm of confusion'Special congressional elections are, on balance, less democratic than regular elections. "We knew from the beginning that it would be harder to win a special election," McCready said of his September 2019 special election.

☆ Fenomen rar. Un meteorit s-a prăbușit în statul american New York (VIDEO)
▼ + stars: | 2020-12-03 | by ( Publika.Md - Aici Sunt Știrile | ) www.publika.md time to read: +1 min

Un meteorit s-a prăbușit miercuri în statul american New York, declanșând un boom sonic și un fulger spectaculos deasupra Lacului Ontario, la intrarea în atmosfera terestră, relatează NBC, potrivit digi24.ro. Meteoritul s-a rupt în bucăți la o altitudine de 35 de kilometri între Rochester și Syracuse, a spus Cooke. Boomul sonic s-a auzit însă în tot statul New York. Atunci când s-a spart, meteoritul a produs o lumină strălucitoare peste Lacul Ontario, a spus Cooke. Daar viteza lentă cu care a căzut sugerează că, cel mai probabil, provine de la un asteroid, a spus Cooke.

Persons: ro, Bill Cooke, Cooke, Boomul, Robert Lunsford Organizations: NBC, Meteor Society Locations: american New York, Ontario, Rochester, Syracuse, New York, Onondaga

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