Port Byron News

No one is injured in a house fire in the Village of Port Byron. Cayuga County 911 says it started just before 1 a.m. Wednesday along the 100 block of Main Street.

Cayuga County could be the next one in New York state to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 19, thanks in part to an Auburn High School senior.

I received one of the weirdest assignments of my life during my junior year of high school, when my world studies teacher asked every member of our class to bring in a picture of someone who exemplified physical beauty, and explain our decision.

Officials in Seneca and Cayuga counties are calling for concerned citizens to voice opposition to the Cayuga Nation's application to regain sovereignty over its original lands when the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs holds a hearing on the application's draft environmental statement Wednesday.

Before Gov. Sarah Palin could celebrate Alaskan history with Auburn today, she learned about the Finger Lakes' role in some other history, including her own.

State police have identified the man killed in an accident Tuesday afternoon in the Cayuga County Town of Victory.

Auburn Police Officers were dispatched to the 100 block of Perrine Street Tuesday morning on the report of a man breaking into a residence and assaulting one of the residents.

Michael L. Dopko, employed as a code enforcement officer by the villages of Union Springs and Port Byron and the Town of Montezuma in Cayuga County and the Borough of New Milford in Pennsylvania, has completed the Advanced Floodplain Management Concepts II course.

A tractor-trailer truck with a blown "O" ring dribbled diesel fuel the length of State Street and onto East Genesee Street, sending Auburn firefighters to investigate the spill, sending city police to a minor traffic accident and sending DPW crews out to sand the slippery road surface.

John Hackett of Port Byron works on the steeple of the First Baptist Church Wednesday afternoon next to DeWitt Park in Ithaca.

Auburn police arrested two Port Byron teenagers on Tuesday and accused them of breaking into businesses in the city.

Cayuga County sheriff's deputies have arrested a Syracuse man on felony weapon and mischief charges.

A motorcade brings the body of Army Pfc. Patrick A. DeVoe II past his high school this afternoon on Route 31 in Port Byron.

A full military honor guard and about 200 to 300 people today attended a memorial service for Army Pfc.

The body of Army Pfc. Patrick A. DeVoe II is expected to be brought home today in a motorcade that will pass through DeVoe's boyhood and adult hometowns.

For the second time in six months, a Port Byron high school graduate has been killed in Afghanistan.

Patrick Devoe's mother says she's proud of what her son did, but she never expected him to be killed in action in Afghanistan.

Bus fares will be going up for some travelers in Central New York. Centro riders in Syracuse, Oswego, Fulton and Auburn will all be affected.

PORT BYRON, N.Y. a ' It has been 200 years since the birth of Abraham Lincoln and students at Dana West High School are hoping they were able to set a world record by reading his Gettysburg Address.

Police have located a boy who was reported missing in Cayuga County Tuesday. Sheriff David Gould reports that missing 12 year old Andrew Taber from Port Byron has been located.