State police on Saturday charged Quantasia L. Hendricks, 25, and Sharonica E. Barber, 28, both of Utica, each with a count each of first-degree promoting prison contraband, and violating state sanitary code. Troopers charge at 12:30 p.m. at the Gouverneur Correctional Facility, the two women brought a quantity of synthetic marijuana into the prison. Read […]

This week for “Firefighter Friday,” we talk to Fred DiStefano about his 31 years of firefighting. He tells us about his interesting start into his firefighting career and a day he'll never forget. Read more at http://ift.tt/2z6v2iL

The latest forecasts for a merger of two big storm systems shifts the meeting point to the west, which means heavier rainfall forecast for a larger part of Upstate New York. Central New York is now likely to get 2 to 3 inches of rain from Saturday night to Monday morning, the National Weather Service […]

Winter isn't here yet, but soon the temperatures will be dropping and the snow will start flying. What does the Utica Zoo do to prepare their animals for the cold months ahead? It's another segment of “The Zoo's News.” Read more at http://ift.tt/2ifZJbl

Two Utica area women were arrested at 2:33 p.m. Saturday for allegedly trying to bring dangerous contraband into the Gouverneur Correctional Facility. Quantasia L. Hendricks, 25, and Sharonica E. Barber, 28, were each charged with a violation of the State Sanitary Code and first-degree introducing dangerous contraband into a prison. Read more at http://ift.tt/2yW9mEd

Kaitlyn Conley, 24, and her father during the retrail of her accused murder of Whitesboro chiropractor Mary Louise Dryer Monday at Onieda County Courthouse in Utica. Photos by N. Scott Trimble UTICA, NY – Katie Conley, a 24-year-old who is accused of murdering her boss using poison, told police in a recorded interview played that […]

Halloween is the perfect time to watch a super scary movie with your friends and family. Today's horror movies are great, but you'll always remember the very first scary movie you saw. Read more at http://ift.tt/2yRsHGq

A school bus in the parking lot of the high school in the Utica City School District was hit by gunfire this afternoon, according to the Utica Observer-Dispatch. Coromato told WIBX that the shots were fired at a group of students by some traveling in a car on Hilton Avenue. Read more at http://ift.tt/2lkHgz0

A Utica teen originally charged with attempted murder in an Ogdensburg shooting in August pleaded guilty in St. Lawrence County Court Monday to attempting to possess a weapon. Jahmese J. Rivers, 18, of 214 Arthur St., Utica, pleaded guilty to the violent felony of second-degree attempted criminal possession of a weapon in a plea deal […]

WIBX 950 and John Zogby Strategies have formed an exclusive partnership to gather your thoughts and opinions on the most important issues facing the Mohawk Valley and identify with whom they stand. From the proposed downtown hospital in Utica to the Herkimer County Jail and local election races, here's your chance to let us know […]