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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced that MTA bridges are open to emergency personnel only, effective immediately. That includes fire and police personnel, first responders, and medical personnel which include doctors, nurses, etc. Assessments are ongoing as to whether bridges are reopening to the public.

Is there a large snake on the loose at the Jefferson County Fair? Three people who work at the fair say they've seen it.

In the wee hours of the morning I learned a dear friend of mine Armando "Mando" Montano, passed away. He was an Associated Press intern working in Mexico City. He had just graduated from Grinnell University in Iowa and this fall he was shipping off to the University of Barcelona for journalism school.

Some of the best reading in Sunday's paper comes in the Milestones & Celebrations section, which notes the 25th wedding anniversary of Piper and Thomas Rainbow. "Both are medicated and happy," it proclaims. The ad says, "If you know them, you wonder how the heck they're still together."

Medical students on the Upstate campus are leading by example. They are tracking the number of flights of stairs they walk up each day - going down doesn't count - with the goal of walking 5,334 feet by March 2. That's the height of Mount Marcy, New York's tallest mountain.

When you hear about non-life-threatening injuries, you may not realize just how life altering they can be. Adam Dailey, 25, learned that first hand. As our Katie Gibas reports, even though his recovery has progressed well, his life is still forever changed. BALDWINSVILLE, N.Y.

Two Liverpool High School students are facing charges after police say one of them was giving out morphine to other students.

Satirist Stephen Colbert's "super PAC" has raised more than $1 million since it was formed last summer, the committee's treasurer said in a letter to the Federal Election Commission. The letter accompanied required financial filings for 2011, which show that the committee raised $824,305.46 and spent $151,521.01 last year.

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Dean Starkman's critique of future-of-news gurus Jeff Jarvis, Clay Shirky, and Jay Rosen, among others, made a bit of splash, as these things go. C.W. Anderson, an assistant professor of media culture at CUNY's College of Staten Island, tweeted this shortly after the publication: So were we.

After twelve years of blogging at Poynter, Jim Romenesko has submitted his resignation and I have accepted it. Jim has decided he's ready for a fresh start now - seven weeks before he was scheduled to become a part-time employee and start his own blog.

ASNE-API After more than a decade of adding products - from new sections to niche products in print and online - newspaper editors are identifying and separating what they must do and reducing or eliminating what they wanted to do when times were good, according to a survey conducted by the American Society of News Editors and American Press Institute.

I got on the laptop because I wanted to link to a nice piece by Sister Miriam McGillis called "Feasting and Fasting at the Table of Abraham." I read it in the most recent NEA Bulletin. But I couldn't find it. So instead I'll link to something altogether different, another post from the always-good Slacktivist.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored.

Syracuse, NY - M & T Bank has closed the books on what's left of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra. The bank's regional president Allen J. Naples announced the dispersal of the SSO's assets to three community groups at a news conference this morning at the Onondaga Historical Association.

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, post links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.

Officials in south Florida were in for a surprise last week when they cut open the belly of a 16-foot Burmese python they had captured and killed in the Everglades. Inside the reptile they found a 76-pound, fully intact deer, the Sun-Sentinel reports.