Author: Syracuse News

(It’s a debate every Central New Yorker has had at some point: Who’s got the best pizza? This year, we’ll do our best to find out. I’m on a quest to find the best pizza shops in the Syracuse area. Throughout 2024, I’ll visit 50-plus pizzerias. At each, I’ll sample their most popular pizza, or…

1/20 Syracuse Orange Football Practice: March 25, 2024 Syracuse, N.Y. — It was clear Fran Brown wanted to add size to his Syracuse football roster when transfers and true freshman commitments started rolling in last December. Defensive lineman Fadil Diggs, 6-foot-5 and 260 pounds. Offensive lineman Da’Metrius Weatherspoon, 6-foot-7 and 335 pounds. Linebacker Jahide Lesaine…

This feature is coordinated by The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com and InterFaith Works of CNY. Follow this theme and author posted Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. A children’s prayer I remember describes Jesus as “gentle Jesus, meek and mild” – but that isn’t the Jesus we meet early in this week called “holy” as described in the Gospel of…

Storrs, Connecticut — Georgia Woolley wasn’t supposed to be the one choking up. Sitting alongside Syracuse’s star player after her final game and the head coach who’d openly admitted how much she dreaded this final goodbye, Woolley had expected to be the most composed when reflecting on the moment. Read the full article here

It’s time to grab your tickets and check to see if you’re a big winner! The Powerball lottery jackpot continues to rise after one lucky winner in Michigan won $842 million in the January 1 drawing. Is this your lucky night? Here are Monday’s winning lottery numbers: 7-11-19-53-68 , Powerball: 23, Power Play: 2X Double…

Syracuse, N.Y. —The Syracuse University women’s basketball team may have lost to UConn on Monday night in the NCAA Tournament, but you can’t help but think of what the program has gained. Head coach Felisha Legette-Jack has resurrected a program scarred by scandal following the departure of Quentin Hillsman, its winningest coach, amid accusations of…

Damien Harris has called it a career. On Monday night, the former Buffalo Bills running back released a statement on social media announcing that he was retiring from the league. In part of his retirement announcement, Harris wrote: For the past 20 years, playing the game of football has been one of the greatest privileges…

NEW YORK (AP) — Two properties belonging to rapper Sean “Diddy” Combs’ in Los Angeles and Miami were searched Monday by federal Homeland Security Investigations agents and other law enforcement as part of an ongoing sex trafficking investigation by federal authorities in New York, two law enforcement officials told The Associated Press. It’s not clear…

Over the last two years, Americans have witnessed a series of record-shattering and destructive climate and weather phenomena. From unprecedented and deadly heatwaves on land and sea to devastating wildfires, relentless droughts, and storms that brought deadly rain and flooding, communities have been tested. Last year, the U.S. experienced 28 separate billion-dollar weather and climate…

A total solar eclipse is just two weeks away, with the path of totality set to pass over Upstate New York for the first time in 99 years, and the region is abuzz with activity as communities plan for a huge influx of sky-gazers on Monday, April 8, 2024. Officials in the Buffalo area are…