While the gladiators of the NFL are clashing in Phoenix at the Super Bowl, the titans of food will be fighting for supremacy at spreads across the country. Many parties will have chicken wings and pizza. Read more at http://ift.tt/1yPvdUd

The boyfriend of one of the victim’s from the triple homicide in Utica wants to change the law regarding mental health evaluations. The petition asks for a minimum 72 hour hold on mental health patients brought to medical or psychiatric facilities for evaluations. Read more at http://ift.tt/1EV6KT0

A “community coach” at South Lewis Central School has been charged with having sex with an underage girl from the district. Anthony Ventura, 22, Boonville, was charged Wednesday by Oneida County sheriff’s deputies with third-degree rape, arraigned in Utica City Court and released on bail. Read more at http://ift.tt/1zGT1AG

The Rescue Mission of Utica had a ribbon cutting today to celebrate a renovation, so they are no longer saying goodbye to the graduates of its Parker House rehab program. Today, officials and a number of guests, cut the ribbon on a new single occupancy room that will allow people to stay and get an […]

In a one-on-one meeting, U.S. Senator Charles Schumer urged the incoming Postmaster General to keep the City of Utica’s Pitcher Street Post Office open. Schumer believes that the facility is too important to the Mohawk Valley region, including its 100 emplyees, to be closed. Read more at http://ift.tt/1CFbYmd

On January 28, 2015, at around 10:40 PM, Utica Police units responded to the area of Eagle Street and Kossuth Avenue in regards to shots fired. Upon interviewing the caller police officers canvassed the 1200 block of Kossuth Avenue and located eight bullet casings in the roadway in front of 1212 Kossuth Avenue. Read more […]

New York Comptroller Tom DiNapoli’s list of fiscally stressed schools is out and both the Herkimer and Utica school districts are on the top 15 list of the most fiscally distressed schools. Utica actually improved slightly from last year moving up from significant to moderate, receiving a fiscal distress score of 63.3%. Read more at […]

A resolution passed the Utica Common Council 8-0 that calls on Governor Cuomo to reconsider current plans to construct a new Route 5/8/12 North-South Expressway through Utica, New York. Originally, the Arterial was conceived as an elevated highway in the 1960s, but community concerns turned it into a surface arterial with street crossings. Read more […]

The Oneida County Child Advocacy Center says 22-year old Anthony Ventura took the girl to the movies in New Hartford and had sex with the victim in Utica before returning to Boonville. Read more at http://ift.tt/1KcGyEy

Dozens of Rome residents expressed their concerns for development of solar farm and a meat packing plant in the city, during a Common Council Meeting Wednesday night. Council members made a decision to open a re-examination of bids for the proposed meat processing plant across the Martin Street Train station. Read more at http://ift.tt/1BAi3Pj