Weedsport News

Honest as the day is long. Gentle giant. Man of integrity. Mr. Public Service. Earl Lamphere in 2001 Those were some of the words family and friends voiced on Thursday to describe former Cayuga County Legislator Earl Lamphere, who died of congestive heart failure on Tuesday.

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Cayuga County is about to go "cold turkey," in a manner of speaking. The Cayuga County Tobacco Free Partnership has lost it's $145,000 state grant and will close its doors July 31, program coordinator Anne E. McCarthy said.

A medical condition may have contributed to a tractor trailer driver's fatal crash on the Thruway early Monday morning, state police said.

A tractor trailer crashed into a line of trees this morning after going off the eastbound Thruway between the Weedsport and I-690/Syracuse exits, state police said.

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.

Westbound traffic is backed up on the Thruway after two minor incidents closed the highway between I-690 and Weedsport , state police said.

Two men have been indicted on charges they planned to rob a bank. Prosecutors allege Daniel Shinosky, 23, of Jericho, and Shane Dirisio, 18, of Weedsport, N.Y., planned to rob the Merchants Bank in Jericho back in January.

The Gloversville-Johnstown Joint Sewer Board adopted sewer rates for 2009-10 and approved low bids for the sewage treatment plant's $7 million upgrade project Wednesday night at City Hall.

The Stacey Castor trial will be the topic of a special two-hour edition of 20/20 tonight on NewsChannel 9. In an exclusive interview with ABC News' David Muir, Stacey Castor continues to deny killing her two husbands.

" Stacey Castor was back in the same court where she was convicted and sentenced to prison for what will likely be the rest of her life.

The New York State Department of Transportation announced that at 6 a.m today around the clock through 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 30, the I-690 eastbound off- ramp to I-81 southbound will be closed to all traffic to facilitate bridge deck repair operations.

Officials from the NYS Thruway Authority detail the different segments of a major reconstruction project set to begin in April 2009.

The Hayner Hoyt Corp., a local general contractor, is planning to move to a new headquarters - double the size of its current home - this summer to facilitate its steady growth.

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.

Funeral arrangements have been set for an Auburn native who was killed in Afghanistan.

North Syracuse magician Wade Whitcomb, poses on top of his crate in a warehouse in Weedsport, NY., Friday, March 6, 2009.

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.

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.

A truck hauling hazardous soil spilled diesel fuel Friday from north of the Witmer Road exit of the I-190, 10 miles to the Chemical Waste Management landfill in Porter.