Winter weather has officially begun as the holiday rush gets underway in the Greater Utica area, and that means road conditions need to always be monitored. Utica Police are warning people to be especially careful as they are responding to dozens of accidents throughout the city.
The major winter storm hitting New York with snow and ice is causing hundreds of accidents. New York State Police are asking everyone to stay off the roads.
A tragic skiing accident has left a Cazenovia man paralyzed. Barclay Talbot broke his neck and lower spine after something went horribly wrong during a ski jump at Cazenovia Ski Club, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. It was the same jump he made successfully just days before.
An Army veteran headed from Nashville to Watertown, New York to play a memorial show for a fallen soldier was involved in a massive pileup on Interstate 81. Ian Wagner walked away unscathed, almost 9 years to the day he was injured by an IED in Iraq. He calls the crash 'alive day #2.'
In what's being called the worst accident in Metro-North's history, 6 people were killed when a train, full of commuters, struck a vehicle on the tracks. The crash occurred at 6:30pm Tuesday in Valhalla, shortly after leaving Grand Central station in New York City.
Kane Buss had dreams of being a police officer. He was set to graduate college in May and enroll in the police academy. Those dreams were cut short when he was tragically killed in a car crash. To honor his memory, the Oneida City Police Department made him an honorary officer.
"There are no words to describe the pain myself, our families, and friends are feeling after the selfish actions of a drunk driver." Those word from an Oneida teen who lost her "true love" in a tragic car crash.