Onondaga County Court Judge Joseph Fahey found 35-year-old Andy Ashkar guilty of possession of stolen property.

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In Onondaga County, New York, health officials counted 2, 347 flu-season cases through last Saturday.

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In Syracuse's home Onondaga County the job count is up just 12%, and since 1990 it has fallen.

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Serious commercial activity began in the 1790s with the development of salt springs along the edge of Onondaga Lake, part of present-day Syracuse.

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Kate Vanorden said her son had two part-time jobs and was saving money to go to Onondaga County Community College to study auto mechanics.

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The most far-reaching: revitalization of the area around the hopelessly polluted Inner Harbor, a one-mile-long channel that runs from Onondaga Lake to within a few blocks of downtown.

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Neighboring Onondaga County doesn't have the same problem, because its emergency shelters accept people in those categories, Ben Dublin, chief of staff for Onondaga County Executive Joanne Mahoney, said.

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Two months ago the Onondaga Citizens League, a good-government watchdog, issued a 79-page report entitled "Economic Development: Models for Success" that made clear its authors do not consider Syracuse one of them.

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The "summons with notice" was filed Nov. 15, 2012, in state Supreme Court in Onondaga County and sat unreported until Thursday, when The Associated Press asked the court clerk for a copy.

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There are some things Syracuse promoters can't do anything about: the 112 inches of annual snowfall, the 24-degree average January temperature, and an impending claim by Onondaga Indians, alleging 18th-century treaty violations, to most of the city.

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