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A security guard was shot in the back of the head Saturday while trying to break up a fight during the final quarter of a high school football game in Utica. The gunfire erupted just after 4 p.m. in a parking lot outside Thomas R. Proctor High School, the city’s police department said. A group of about a dozen people were brawling on the pavement when at least two shots rang out, video of the incident shows. One of the two security guards who had tried to separate the warring groups dropped to the ground after being struck by one...

Sculpture Space, a residency program for sculptors in Utica, New York, was ransacked and severely damaged by vandals in the early hours of Sunday, August 28. The Utica Police Department told Hyperallergic that an investigation is ongoing. The motive for the attack remains unclear. Several donated pieces of artwork for an upcoming charity auction were damaged or destroyed in the raid, Sculpture Space said in a Facebook statement today. The 44-year-old organization provides up to 25 artists-in-residence annually with housing, studio space, and equipment. The damage to the arts center, located in an old industrial plant, is extensive. According to...

UTICA, Mich. – A video that shows an altercation between a Utica detective and two men has gone viral since it was posted Wednesday (Feb. 9) night. These guys call themselves auditors, who have filmed videos in public places all over Michigan, and they say they aren’t after confrontations with police, but in this case, they got a big one. It all began with another driver upset about two men filming with their cameras, so he called Utica police. Those two men are with Fricn Media, a group of self-proclaimed auditors of police behavior that makes no secret about being...

Man Kills 17-Year-Old Instagram Starlet and Posts Gory Photos Online BY TOM OZIMEKJ Updated: July 16, 2019 Share Police said a 17-year-old girl with a notable Instagram following was murdered in upstate New York by a man who then posted photos of her corpse online, sparking shock and horror. Users of the Discord platform who saw the gruesome photos on Sunday, July 14, alerted the authorities to a possible crime, Utica Police said in a statement. Officers “began an in-depth search for the male and female” and later that day located the suspect, 21-year-old Brandon Clark, after he called 911...

UTICA, N.Y. — A woman accused of taking part in a 14-hour group beating that killed one of her half brothers and injured another during a church counseling session was convicted on Tuesday of manslaughter and assault but was acquitted of murder. Oneida County Judge Michael Dwyer acquitted Sarah Ferguson of the most serious charge she faced, second-degree murder, saying prosecutors had not proved that she knew 19-year-old Lucas Leonard could or would die after she pummeled both brothers' groins with an electrical cord at the Word of Life Christian Church in October.

The Department of Labor has awarded Utica, New York, $2 million to teach young refugees how to build drones as part of a summer jobs program. About 400 teenage refugee students living in the city will get part-time summer jobs through the program, as well as tutoring in English and Math. Those who demonstrate academic competence will then take part in a year-long drone building challenge during the school year, as the work and tutoring continues. The 14- and 15-year-old refugee students will learn how to design a drone and then construct their own model using the lab of the...

The size of the Utica shale play’s technically recoverable resources is larger than previously thought, a recent study by West Virginia University (WVU) has found. WVU found that the Utica play contains technically recoverable resources of 782 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of natural gas and around 1.9 billion barrels of oil. That’s higher than the U.S. Geological Survey’s (USGS) 2012 estimate of technically recoverable resources at 38 Tcf of gas and 940 million barrels of oil. The study results indicate that the Utica – which spans West Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York – is comparable to the Marcellus...

Submitted by Thomas Miller via Oilprice.com,One could argue America was conceived from intense frustration that ultimately led to separation. Fed up with what they perceived as excessive control by the Crown, colonists to the “New England”, in essence, seceded in 1776, and thus the United States was born.Now, there is a renewed and growing secession conversation brewing in the New England region, this time fueled by a commodity: Natural gas. Infuriated by Governor Andrew Cuomo’s December decision to permanently instill a ban against hydraulic fracture stimulation, or fracking, residents in 15 communities in the Southern Tier of New York...

Six Bosnian immigrants have been charged in the U.S. for allegedly supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), the Department of Justice said Friday. The suspects, five of whom were arrested in the U.S., are all charged with providing material support to terrorists and conspiring to provide material support and resources to terrorists, the DOJ said in a statement. They were identified as Ramiz Zijad Hodzic, 40, his wife Sedina Unkic Hodzic, 35, and Armin Harcevic, 37, who live in St. Louis County, Missouri; Nihad Rosic, 26, of Utica, New York; Mediha Medy Salkicevic, 34 of Schiller Park,...

Magnum Hunter has ‘monster’ on its hands with biggest Utica well – ever Sep 25, 2014, 11:29am EDT Share on Google + Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Email this article Save Order Reprints Print Enlarge Photo   Industry Supplier of the Year: Gary C. Evans of Magnum Hunter Resources Corp.     Tom KnoxReporter- Columbus Business FirstEmail  |  Google+  |  LinkedIn  |  Twitter So far, natural gas drillers have only dipped their toes into West Virginia’s Utica shale play. It’s safe to say some might dive in head first now.Magnum Hunter Resources Corp. announced results...

The Utica Shale Is Starting to Look "Extraordinary" By Matt DiLallo | More Articles | Save For Later September 11, 2014 | Comments (1)   Chesapeake Energy.  Few people are as bullish on the future of the Utica shale as the founder and former CEO of Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK  ) , Aubrey McClendon. He famously once called it the "biggest thing economically to hit Ohio, since maybe the plow." More recently, he called it "extraordinary" and said that "pound for pound, it's the best gas rock in the U.S." What's different this time is McClendon is no longer alone in his...

Chesapeake chasing ‘all-but-forgotten’ shale assets Posted on May 19, 2014 at 11:50 pm by Collin Eaton in Crude oil, Natural gas, Shale EmailPrint8 inShare81 A Chesapeake Energy storage tank near Dilley, Texas. (Pat Sullivan/AP) HOUSTON – Just a month after BP decided to take a $521 million hit to abandon its plans for the Utica Shale, Chesapeake Energy last week called the region its “newest world-class asset.”It was the second surprising determination that Chesapeake executives made this year on where the company could find its biggest future growth drivers. The first out-of-the-blue call came in February, when the Oklahoma City-based...

New Utica wells rival core Marcellus output Posted on June 12, 2014 at 3:00 pm by Collin Eaton in featured, Natural gas, Shale A drilling rig in the Utica Shale. (Chesapeake) HOUSTON – Natural gas, and not oil, has turned out to be the dominant fossil fuel in Ohio’s Utica Shale, a big disappointment to the industry that prompted BP and Halcón Resources to abandon the play earlier this year.But Aubrey McClendon’s new wildcatting venture American Energy Partners and a handful of players are racing to snap up land in the southeastern corner of the play, where operators have found...

Aubrey McClendon Continues to Bet Big on the Utica Shale By Matt DiLallo | More Articles | Save For Later May 29, 2014 | Comments (3)  Source: Chesapeake Energy. Former Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK  ) CEO Aubrey McClendon once boasted that the Utica Shale would prove to be "the biggest thing economically to hit Ohio, since maybe the plow." He called it a half-trillion dollar opportunity because "it sounds bigger" than a $500 billion opportunity. Unfortunately for McClendon, the Utica Shale didn't work out exactly how he envisioned it would. Many of his peers pulled back on the play after it...

Is the Utica Shale Really a World-Class Energy Asset? By Matt DiLallo |May 25, 2014 | Photo credit: Chesapeake Energy  Last week at its Analyst Day Chesapeake Energy (NYSE: CHK  ) unveiled the Utica Shale as its next world-class asset. That's in stark contrast to what Halcon Resources (NYSE: HK  ) thinks about the play, as it has virtually abandoned its efforts to develop its Utica Shale acreage. It's divergent opinions like these that make it tough for investors to determine who to believe when it comes to the Utica Shale.Chesapeake Energy's advantageChesapeake Energy already has a long history in the Utica...

After early complaints that out-of-state firms got the most jobs, some local construction trade workers and union members in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia say they're now benefiting in a big way from the Marcellus and Utica shale oil and gas boom. That vocal support from blue-collar workers complicates efforts by environmentalists to limit the drilling process known as fracking. "The shale became a lifesaver and a lifeline for a lot of working families," said Dennis Martire, the mid-Atlantic regional manager for the Laborers' International Union, or LIUNA, which represents workers in numerous construction trades. Martire said that as huge...

Today, ExxonMobil announced it had reached two separate agreements with American Energy-Utica and Endeavor Energy Resources, in Utica, Ohio, and the Permian Basin in Texas, respectively. The agreements will allow Exxon to further expand the assets of its oil and natural gas portfolio in the U.S. The agreements have been made through ExxonMobil subsidiary XTO Energy, which manages the company's oil and natural gas portfolio in the United States. The agreement with Endeavor Energy Resources will further increase the holdings of XTO to 1.5 million acres in the Permian Basin, which is a key area of onshore oil production in...

Companies operating in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions say it has been a challenge to fill openings in engineering, geology, environmental health and other professional fields. The Marcellus Shale Coalition, a gas drilling industry trade group, on Wednesday released a workforce survey of more than 100 of its members. The companies said that finding qualified talent and getting prospective employees to relocate are the biggest challenges they face when it comes to hiring. Of the most difficult positions to fill, 49 percent were in professional fields and 15 percent were in management...

One man has been charged in connection with a graduation party shooting and Utica police continue to search for three other suspects involved, they said. Around 8:30 p.m. June 22, the nearly 8-second shooting happened on the corner of Arthur and West streets, police said. The shooting was captured by surveillance video in the area. The footage was released to the public Thursday to help identify the individuals involved. A man in a green striped shirt, identified as Robert Lindo, 28, can be seen firing a gun at several people in the crowd, police said. Lindo was charged with reckless...

The Utica and Marcellus shale plays in Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York could represent more than $10 trillion in new economic activity when fully developed, says a new report from a bond rating firm. But the analysis by Kroll Bond Rating Agency in New York also cautions that the oil and natural gas shale boom is “fraught with a multitude of environmental and health issues” related to hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. It said concerns over methane escaping during drilling, water use in fracking operations and potential contamination issues all need to be adequately addressed. New York has banned...