On the cool autumn evening of October 4, 1850, Syracuse’s City Hall was overflowing. Hundreds of people from all over Central New York had descended on the city to attend a meeting called by ...

He called himself Jerry. He was a skilled cabinetmaker in Syracuse, N.Y., before he got a better-paying job making wooden barrels. He was a light-skinned Black man with reddish hair in his early ...

Syracuse had one run in and the bases loaded in the first inning, and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre starter Sean Boyle was an out away from getting through it without any more damage. But Boyle also knows ...

This phrase concluded the advertisement in the Syracuse Standard inviting “all lovers of justice and kindness throughout the land” to the second annual celebration of the Jerry Rescue ...