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Syracuse, N.Y. (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden plans to visit Syracuse next month to attend a private fundraiser for Democratic Rep. Dan Maffei.

Dan Maffei has another town hall meeting scheduled for Friday August 14 from 4:00 PM to 5:30 PM. The meeting will be held at his office located at 100 East Miller Street, Newark, NY. Click here for directions. There were no other details on his web page.

Syracuse, NY - Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, the popular Syracuse eatery, may have been founded by bikers. But now, it has a big corporate backer. Soros Strategic Partners LP, a private investment company launched by one of the world's wealthiest people, billionaire financier George Soros, owns 70 percent of the business, Dinosaur co-founder John Stage said today. Soros' company made the investment last year, but Stage kept it quiet until now. News leaked out after Dinosaur Bar-B-Que filed documents listing the company owners on an application for tax breaks in Troy, where Stage hopes to open his next restaurant. The Times Union...

Bishop Robert J. Cunningham Syracuse, N.Y., Apr 21, 2009 / 10:50 am (CNA).- The Diocese of Syracuse in New York received the news this morning that it has a new shepherd—Bishop Robert J. Cunningham. The Buffalo-born bishop will move from the Diocese of Ogdensburg in upstate New York to serve the faithful in his new diocese.Pope Benedict's appointment of Bishop Cunningham to lead the Diocese of Syracuse comes almost two years after Bishop James Moynihan submitted his resignation upon reaching the age of 75. Until Bishop Cunningham is installed on May 26 at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception...

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - It's called a white-crested laughing thrush and it's bringing smiles to zookeepers in Syracuse. The Rosamond Gifford Zoo greeted a new bird March 7. The chick is named Zephyr.

Kennedy Takes A Beating From Upstate Media Reporters Jump All Over Mostly Silent Princess Of Camelot; Mayor Of Syracuse Doesn't Offer Endorsement Who Should Get Senate Gig? Siena Poll: Cuomo 26, Kennedy 23 Reporting Marcia Kramer NEW YORK (CBS) Caroline Kennedy took a page from Hillary Clinton's playbook and began an upstate listening tour On Wednesday. The road trip included stops in Syracuse, Rochester and Buffalo to help convince Gov. David Paterson and voters she's the one to replace Clinton in the U.S. Senate. But it was a tough crowd. The black SUV pulled up to Syracuse city hall Wednesday...

For the last few months, St. James Roman Catholic Church in Johnson City has seen a decline in weekly donations. About two out of four weeks the parish fails to meet its weekly budget of $14,000, said the Rev. John Donovan. A bequest from the late Robert L. and Catherine H. McDevitt - part of more than $30 million the Binghamton couple left to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse and three Southern Tier parishes - will provide a cushion for St. James, Donovan said. It should have similar benefits for other initiatives and programs across the diocese. "It's...

RYE, N.Y. (CNS) -- Atonement Father Dan Callahan evangelizes underwater. And on a bike. And while he's running. All on the same day. And he helps recovering alcoholics and substance abusers at the same time. Father Callahan, 57, is known as the "Iron Friar" for successfully completing 12 daylong triathlons since 1997. Most recently, he finished the Ford Iron Man USA competition July 20 at Lake Placid in 14 hours and 43 minutes. Three inches of rain fell while he swam 2.4 miles in Mirror Lake, biked 112 miles through the Adirondack Mountains and ran a 26.4-mile road marathon. In...

SYRACUSE, NY-David Gay says he's the unconventional congressional candidate who stands for conventional Republican ideals. The 27-year-old, who was the Syracuse coordinator for Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign, has never run for public office. He and his wife, Yusimy Gay-Martinez, who fled Cuba in 1999, live in a poor neighborhood on Syracuse's North Side with their 17-month-old son. Since graduating nine years ago from Nottingham High School, Gay has scraped by doing a variety of jobs, including work on the Syracuse Chiefs grounds crew, as a baseball scout in Latin America, as a Spanish translator and as a data entry...

Buffalo, NY - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials arrested 52 criminal and fugitive aliens as part of a four-day, six-state operation - including arrests in Syracuse and Binghamton. The operation ended Monday. Across the six states, officials made 225 total arrests. Buffalo-based enforcement officials focused their operation in Syracuse and Binghamton, making 22 and 30 arrests, respectively, officials said. "Fugitive aliens" are illegal aliens who fail to leave the country after having been ordered to do so by a federal immigration judge. The multi-day operation took place in New York, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and Missouri. The Syracuse arrests...

100 INVADE NAZI MEETING Legion Men at Syracuse Question Kunze, Bund Leader SYRACUSE, N. Y., Feb. 10 (AP) – G. W. Kunze, national director of public relations for the German-American Bund, led a delegation of half a dozen gray-uniformed Nazis into Syracuse tonight and was met by a belligerent band of American Legion men. Dwight C. Dale, Syracuse Post commander, and other legion leaders said they would oppose formation of a bund unit here, declaring that the organization was un-American. More than 100 legionnaires marched into Kunze’s meeting and leaders questioned him. He was asked about his beliefs, especially concerning...

A formal announcement was scheduled later Thursday in Syracuse, N.Y. Walsh, serving his 10th term, nearly lost his last election in 2006 to a former House Ways and Means Committee aide, Democrat Dan Maffei. Walsh's stance on the Iraq war has been an issue in his District. Maffei is running again this year. Walsh's retirement is the latest in a spate of Republican retirements this year. Walsh sits on the influential Appropriations Committee.

Updated: 4/21/2007 9:16 PMBy: Web Staff The Catholic Diocese is facing hard times. Because of lack of resources, including money and clergy, Bishop James Moynihan said it's time for change. "We have to tailor our resources to fit what we do have, and at the same time, we want to meet the needs," Bishop Moynihan said.Discussion of how to address the problem began back in 1982. Now, a plan to close or merge churches across Central New York has been put in motion. On Saturday, Moynihan announced plans for the Eastern Region, which includes Oneida, Madison, and a small part...

<p>SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- A former University of Idaho football player has been arrested as a material witness in an investigation of Islamic charities with possible links to terrorism, FBI agents said Tuesday.</p> <p>Abdullah Al-Kidd, 30, was arrested Sunday at Dulles International Airport near Washington, D.C., according to two FBI agents who separately spoke on condition of anonymity. He was carrying a one-way ticket to Saudi Arabia, court documents show.</p>

NEW YORK -- About a minute or two before the Knicks-Nuggets brawl erupted Saturday night in Madison Square Garden, New York coach Isiah Thomas mentioned to Denver star Carmelo Anthony that it wouldn't be a good idea to go anywhere near the paint, according to a member of the Denver Nuggets organization. The message was unmistakable: A hard foul was coming. And when it came, the NBA had its first full-scale fight of the 2006-07 season. As it tries to stay in the race in the Western Conference, Denver now has a huge question to ponder: How long will Anthony...

Right or wrong, the code of the street in poor, largely black neighborhoods in the Bay Area is never, ever cooperate with police. To do so, the idea goes, means risking retaliation from criminals. The ethos cuts across generations, even as some who embrace it complain police do little about crime in their neighborhoods. The mind-set is moving from the streets to the mainstream, carried by rappers denouncing rats and T-shirts declaring, "Stop Snitchin." The T-shirts have proven popular in Oakland and elsewhere, prompting a debate within the communities where they're worn and frustrating police who say they're another...

DENVER -- Denver Nuggets star Carmelo Anthony is featured in an underground DVD that is circulating in his home town of Baltimore, Md. The DVD is called "Stop Snitching" and shows alleged drug dealers talking about what happens to people who cooperate with the police, and Anthony is standing next to one of them. He is also seen on the DVD talking about his Olympic bronze medal and saying that he threw it in a lake. The man he stands next to later goes on to tell how he would take care of snitches by "putting a hole in their...

NEW YORK The Post-Standard of Syracuse, N.Y. is offering newsroom employees a buyout package that could give some longtime workers two years of pay, while possibly reducing the staff by 10%, Publisher Stephan A. Rogers told E&P. "We don't know how many jobs we're looking to cut," said Rogers, who has run the non-union paper since 1980. "Ten percent, maybe. I don't know. We have never done anything like this." The buyout offer was presented to the paper's 204 editorial workers on Tuesday, offering the best deal to 20-year-veterans who are 50 years of age or older. The paper has...

Cindy Sheehan is coming to Syracuse University on Oct 19th at 7pm. We have been granted approval to hold a pro-USA rally outside of Hendrick's Chapel to show our support for the troops and our country vs this vile person...join us! We are meeting around 630pm, bring a sign, bring an effigy. All patriotic Central New Yorkers are encouraged to show their support for our country and our troops by showing up and giving Cindy Sheehan the greeting a traitor deserves.

AUBURN NY--Stop the presses. The war on terror must be over. The Syracuse Post Standard reports that, instead of hunting bombmakers, enemy combatants and terror cells, the local branch of the FBI is busy "looking into an August 2004 arrest of a skateboarder by an Auburn police officer." [Auburn Police Chief Gary] Giannotta said the FBI asked for a complete copy of the entire investigation surrounding the arrest of Richard Picciano, of Auburn. Picciano, who was then 16, was charged on Aug. 4, 2004, with skateboarding in the city's no-skateboard zone and resisting arrest. In the midst of the arrest,...