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Tuesday, November 3, 2026
City of Oswego
Sixteen years into a federal sewer order, the City of Oswego's own documents give three different answers to when its sewer debt ends, two answers to what it owed in 2022, and a budget that plans to spend $2,086,259 more than its sewer fund takes… Read more
New York State
General Motors will pay $220 million to New York and other states, including $12,054,341 to New York, and limit the driving data it collects, settling claims that it sold drivers' driving and location data to data brokers who sold it to insurers… Read more
Health
The Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval on Friday, Oct. 30, to Voceryq, an Inovio Pharmaceuticals immunotherapy for adults with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, a rare disease in which human papillomavirus causes… Read more
Health
Three companies recalled products in notices posted by the Food and Drug Administration between Oct. 29 and Nov. 2: Once Upon a Farm's Tractor Wheels toddler bars for a choking hazard, Vitality Works' 365 Whole Foods Market ashwagandha capsules for… Read more
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Sixteen years into a federal sewer order, the City of Oswego's own documents give three different answers to when its sewer debt ends, two answers to what it owed in 2022, and a budget that plans to spend $2,086,259 more than its sewer fund takes… Read more
A SUNY Oswego professor of practice, Tyler King, 39, was arrested at the Lansdowne border crossing in Ontario and has been charged by Alberta RCMP with three counts of luring a person under 18, sexual exploitation of a young person and making child… Read more
The Oswego State women's soccer team beat SUNY Oneonta 3-2 on the road Saturday, Oct. 31, in the second round of the SUNYAC playoffs, according to the SUNY Oswego athletics department. Luz De Luna Catano-Matip scored the winning goal at 79:32, and… Read more
The City of Oswego rededicated the Edward A. Maxon East Side Fire Station on Oct. 30 at a morning ceremony that unveiled new signage with the name of Firefighter Edward A. Maxon, Oswego County Today reported. Maxon died in the line of duty on May… Read more
The Oswego Common Council voted 5-1, with one abstention, on Monday, Oct. 26 to authorize a $949,800 bid from GHD Consulting Services, Inc. for professional engineering services on the Ellen Street and Gardenier Hill Water Tower project, according… Read more
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Polls in Oswego County are open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m. on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 3, according to the county Board of Elections. Seats in all 25 districts of the Oswego County Legislature are on the ballot, and county Democrats fielded 17… Read more
Demolition of the former Nestle Building 30 at 533 South 4th St. in Fulton is expected to begin Monday, Nov. 9, according to a release from Mayor James Rice's office published by Oswego County Today. The work will use about 3,000 to 5,000 gallons… Read more
Owen T. Ligammari, 19, of Adams died after the pickup truck he was driving left Interstate 81 southbound near mile marker 112 in the town of Hastings and overturned several times at about 4:28 a.m. Friday, Oct. 30, New York State Police said… Read more
The Fulton Common Council held a special meeting Friday, Oct. 30, on 16 amendments to the proposed 2027 General Fund budget, Oswego County Today reported from the agenda. One resolution, as read on a recording of the meeting posted by Dot… Read more
A diesel spill from a passenger vehicle in a traffic accident was reported Oct. 29 at Catfish Creek, at County Route 6 and County Route 1 in New Haven, according to the state Department of Environmental Conservation's spill incidents data. The… Read more
Students in the Fulton City School District met and worked with author and illustrator Ben Clanton during a four-day visit to all four of the district's elementary schools, according to an Oct. 22 release from the Center for Instruction, Technology… Read more
The City of Fulton posted the final notice and agenda for a regular Common Council meeting on Thursday, Nov. 5, at 7 p.m. in the Common Council Chambers of the Municipal Building, 141 South First Street, according to the city's notice as published… Read more
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Homeowners, renters, businesses and nonprofits in Erie County and the neighboring counties of Niagara, Genesee, Wyoming, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua can apply for low-interest U.S. Small Business Administration disaster loans for damage from the… Read more
A child in Lewis County died in association with the ongoing measles outbreak, the state Department of Health and Lewis County Public Health said in a joint statement Monday, Nov. 2, calling it the first known measles-associated death in New York… Read more
Nearly 2 million people voted early in New York this election season, a 67 percent increase over the 2022 midterm elections, when just under 1.2 million voted early and in person, WAMC reported Nov. 2, citing unofficial results from the State Board… Read more
A grave-marking ceremony at Oakwood Cemetery in Penfield honored eight of the twelve Revolutionary War patriots buried there, WROC reported. The Mary Fellows Penfield Chapter of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution organized… Read more
The first Kenmore Kids Crawl took place Sunday in the Village of Kenmore, WIVB reported. Organizer Chloe Reid said buses took groups of children aged 4 to 12 between stops that included STEM and sensory stations, tours of the Kenmore fire and… Read more
Veterans on Honor Flight Rochester's Mission 99 returned to Rochester on Sunday after spending the weekend touring Washington, D.C., WHEC reported. The group included two Korean War veterans, one Cold War veteran, one Cold War and Vietnam veteran… Read more
In April, Ludva Klatovský set out on a 15-year-old Vespa from his home in Czechia to Highmark Stadium in Orchard Park to celebrate his sobriety, inspired by Jordan Poyer, whom WIVB described as a Bills safety, and Poyer's journey, WIVB reported… Read more
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Voters across the country cast the last ballots of the 2026 midterm elections on Tuesday, 3 November, with control of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives at stake, The Guardian reported; Republicans held both chambers going into Election… Read more
A Learjet 60 flying from Austin, Texas, to North Eleuthera in the Bahamas crashed in a Palm Beach County, Florida, neighborhood on Sunday, killing all nine people aboard, two crew members and seven passengers, The Center Square reported. National… Read more
Twelve people were injured, including six juveniles, in a shooting near Florida A&M University's Bragg Memorial Stadium in Tallahassee on Saturday evening, shortly after the school's homecoming football game, according to ABC News, CBS News and the… Read more
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Reddit and the Digital Freedom Project argued before Australia's High Court in Canberra on Tuesday, Nov. 3, that the law barring under-16s from holding accounts on ten social media platforms is unconstitutional, in the first legal challenge to the… Read more
Russian aerial bombs hit a school used to hand out humanitarian aid in the village of Komyshuvakha, in Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region, on Monday, Nov. 2, and regional head Mykhailo Semikin said on Tuesday that the death toll had risen to 29, the BBC… Read more
Two helicopters collided while landing at Pheriche in Nepal's Solukhumbu district, on the route to Mount Everest Base Camp, at about 8:11 a.m. local time on Tuesday, Nov. 3, killing a 47-year-old Indian national, Nepal police said, according to The… Read more
Garment workers in Bangladesh protested for a fourth day on Tuesday, Nov. 3, demanding a minimum monthly wage of 30,000 taka, up from 12,500 taka, and police fired tear gas in Ashulia and Dhaka's Mirpur area, CNA reported. The protests began on… Read more
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won a fourth, non-consecutive term in Sunday's runoff, the country's electoral court said, according to Reuters copy carried by The Independent, France 24 and The Jerusalem Post. They reported that he… Read more
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Google and industry partners dismantled a botnet of more than 1.3 million Android TV set-top boxes last week, and Google said it assessed "with high confidence" that the device maker Videostrong Technology Co. intentionally built and ran the… Read more
Starting Nov. 16, developers must declare in the App Store Connect age rating questionnaire whether their apps include real-world location sharing or features for dating or relationship connections, including with a virtual companion that engages a… Read more
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, settled a lawsuit brought by two teenagers who alleged that the app was designed to be addictive and contributed to their mental health problems, lawyers for the plaintiffs said on Monday, according to CBS News… Read more
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added four actively exploited flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Oct. 29 and 30, two in Ivanti Connect Secure, one in GitLab and one in Cisco's firewall software, with fix… Read more
iFixit published a teardown of the iPhone Duo on Sunday, and MacRumors, 9to5Mac and The Verge all reported a provisional repairability score of 5 out of 10, which 9to5Mac and The Verge said is the highest the site has given a foldable phone… Read more
Eight private keys belonging to intermediate certificates of eMudhra, an India-based certificate authority, were so weak that they could be recovered from the public certificates, according to Help Net Security and The Next Web. A researcher… Read more
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Saudi Aramco reported adjusted net income of $31.2 billion for the third quarter of 2026, up from $28.6 billion in the same quarter of 2025, the company said in its results release on Tuesday. Cash flow from operating activities was $38.7 billion… Read more
The Nasdaq Composite closed down 1.07 percent and the S&P 500 down 0.51 percent on Monday, Nov. 2, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose about 214 points, or 0.41 percent, CNBC reported, as investors continued to rotate out of tech stocks… Read more
The Reserve Bank of Australia's Monetary Policy Board raised its cash rate target by 25 basis points to 4.85 percent on Tuesday, its statement said, with six members voting for the increase and three for holding at 4.60 percent. The board said it… Read more
The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey was scheduled for 10 a.m. ET on Tuesday, Nov. 3, according to the St. Louis Fed's FRED release calendar, which lists the U.S. international trade report for 8:30 a.m. ET Wednesday and productivity and… Read more
Johnson Controls reported fiscal fourth-quarter sales of $7.1 billion, up 10% (12% organic), with GAAP earnings of $1.60 a share and adjusted earnings of $1.66 a share, the company said in a release dated Tuesday, Oct. 27. Orders rose 44%… Read more
SoFi Technologies reported third-quarter GAAP net revenue of $1.385 billion, up 44% from a year earlier, and net income of $241.0 million, or 18 cents a share, in a release dated Tuesday, Oct. 27. Adjusted net revenue was $1.371 billion and… Read more
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The Institute for Supply Management's Manufacturing PMI registered 55.5 percent in October, 1 point above September's 54.5 percent and the 10th consecutive month of expansion, the institute reported on Nov. 2. Its Production Index rose to 59… Read more
Anduril and Qualcomm announced a laptop called BlueChip on Tuesday, with preorders planned for 2027, TechCrunch reported. Anduril founder Palmer Luckey said the laptop's bill of materials was about 90% U.S. and allied-country content, with a… Read more
Ripple and Robinhood announced a partnership on Tuesday morning under which RLUSD, Ripple's dollar stablecoin, will be a key stablecoin across Robinhood's digital asset business, according to the companies' joint release. The release said RLUSD is… Read more
Hydrofarm Holdings Group said Oct. 27 that it entered agreements with holders of its senior secured term loan and the loan agent to issue 27.5 million shares of Series 1 Non-Voting Convertible Preferred Stock and warrants for 27.5 million common… Read more
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Tuesday is mostly cloudy and near 66, with a 20% chance of a shower before 11 a.m. Wednesday is mostly sunny and near 74, which would tie the 4 November record at the Fulton airport, before an 80% chance of rain Wednesday night and Thursday.
Temperatures across western and north-central New York are forecast to run about 20 degrees above normal on Tuesday and Wednesday and could reach record highs for early November, the National Weather Service in Buffalo said Tuesday morning. Its… Read more
Dry, warm weather and very dry fine fuels will persist through midweek across the Buffalo office's area, the National Weather Service in Buffalo said in its fire weather discussion Tuesday. A cold front Wednesday night through Thursday is expected… Read more
The National Weather Service in Buffalo said early Tuesday that no hazardous weather was expected today through Monday for western and north-central New York, Oswego County included, or for the New York waters of Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the… Read more
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The Chicago Bears beat the Seattle Seahawks 34-17 in Seattle on Monday night, with defensive tackle Jeffery Simmons playing his first game since Chicago acquired him from Tennessee last week, the Associated Press reported in copies carried by the… Read more
Kimi Antonelli, 20, of Mercedes won the United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday, ahead of Charles Leclerc of Ferrari and Max Verstappen of Red Bull, the Guardian, BBC Sport and Sky Sports reported. After the race Antonelli… Read more
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A team led by Megan Schwamb of Queen's University Belfast reported two new long-term stable Trojan asteroids in Neptune's trailing (L5) cloud, plus one candidate, using early data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, in a paper published 15 October… Read more
Researchers who tested hair and nail samples from eight people sacrificed in the Inca capacocha ritual and buried near volcanic peaks in Peru and Argentina found traces of coca use, according to a paper published online Nov. 3 in the journal… Read more
Researchers at Virginia Tech's Conservation Management Institute, Jennifer Weber and Shawn Kurtzman, have fitted 35 monarch butterflies with radio-pulse tags weighing less than half a gram and are following them on their fall migration, according… Read more
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The Food and Drug Administration granted accelerated approval on Friday, Oct. 30, to Voceryq, an Inovio Pharmaceuticals immunotherapy for adults with recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, a rare disease in which human papillomavirus causes… Read more
A Yakima County, Washington, resident who was exposed to bird flu at a dairy with infected cattle died on Sunday, Nov. 1, after being hospitalized with severe illness, the Yakima Health District said in a release that day. The person had underlying… Read more
Records the Electronic Frontier Foundation obtained in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services show the agency raised problems with at least four of the six vendors in the first months of its WISeR… Read more
Three companies recalled products in notices posted by the Food and Drug Administration between Oct. 29 and Nov. 2: Once Upon a Farm's Tractor Wheels toddler bars for a choking hazard, Vitality Works' 365 Whole Foods Market ashwagandha capsules for… Read more
The CDC reported 4,588 confirmed measles cases in the United States in 2026 as of Oct. 22, against 2,289 for all of 2025, according to its measles page updated Oct. 23. NPR reported that Pennsylvania had at least 1,338 confirmed cases in 44… Read more
People from Black, Asian and mixed backgrounds, alongside people from deprived backgrounds, were up to 33% less likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer through screening, and up to 37% more likely to be diagnosed in an emergency, according to… Read more
Conspiracy theories curated and generated for ironic comedic purposes.
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I got my X-rays back from the dentist last month and something is wrong with my teeth.
She is back on my roof.
In the early 1950s, the Office of Naval Research paid AT&T and Western Electric to sink hydrophone arrays into the deep ocean floor along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. The system was called SOSUS, the Sound Surveillance System. It cost billions… Read more
Speculator, New York. Population 406. The only incorporated village in Hamilton County, sitting on the northeastern shore of Lake Pleasant inside the Adirondack Park. Locals call it Four Corners because Routes 8 and 30 cross in the middle of town… Read more
I went on a blind date with Bigfoot. I need to talk about the caviar.
The Animal Welfare Act was signed into law in 1966 and has been amended six times since. It is enforced by the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. It governs the treatment of animals used in research, testing, exhibition, and… Read more
The truth has been making its rounds, that the land bridge between Alaska and Russia was decommissioned. Not submerged. Not eroded. Decommissioned. The word you use for a reactor that has served its purpose and been taken out of service by someone… Read more
I have been reading the Shahnameh. Not the abridged version they hand out in survey courses. The full text, in a translation from 1905 that has not been updated to soften the technical language, and I need to talk about the Cup of Jamshid.
A committee sat down in 2003 and finalized a standard for how digital video compresses moving images. The standard is called H.264. It is used in virtually every video stream, every broadcast, every conference call on earth. And within five years… Read more
The Global Positioning System does not run on the same clock as the surface of the earth. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is published physics, corrected for daily, acknowledged by every agency that operates the network. The atomic clocks… Read more
