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We're two weeks into the new criminal justice reform here in New York state. Since the beginning of the year, we've seen push-back and support for bail reform and the new discovery law. It's a controversial new law prompting the release of hundreds of suspects across the state. It's...

Syracuse, NY -- A judge didn’t want to do it. A prosecutor protested it. But New York’s new bail reform required the release of Michael Ziemba, 49, a driver with a history of dangerous intoxication who’s accused of fleeing the scene of a fatal crash...

Syracuse, NY -- An Onondaga County Court Judge said Thursday he had no choice under the state’s new bail reform law but to release from jail a driver accused of an Onondaga Lake Parkway fatal hit-and-run who authorities say tried to hide his tracks. Michael Ziemba, 49, is...

Syracuse, NY -- It may be one of the more unusual murder scenes in recent Central New York history: someone covered up the stabbing and beating death of Jacob Giarrusso by pouring his grandmother’s home-cooked chili across the crime scene. Giarrusso, 25, of Salina, was found dead three...

Attorneys for a South New Berlin man serving a 25-year sentence for the 2012 murder of his wife argued last week in Chenango County Court that his conviction should be thrown out. Ganesh “Remy” Ramsaran, now 44, is in custody at Great Meadows Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison in Washington County. He exhausted his...