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High-tech snowplows and AI help cities clean up from big storms

By JEFF McMURRAY Associated Press Residents of Syracuse, New York — America's snowiest city — once barraged a service hotline with street neglect complaints during blizzards, even if plows had passed two hours earlier but the work was hidden by fresh snow. Now public trust seems to be ...

Sleepy owl found resting among items on a New York antique store shelf

DURHAM, N.Y. (AP) — Shoppers in upstate New York earlier this month turned up a rare find while perusing a local antique store this month: tucked next to a cookie jar made in the shape of a chicken was a live owl resting peacefully on a shelf. The state Department of Environmental ...

For Northeast blizzard, everything was just right to roll up a monster snowfall

By SETH BORENSTEIN AP Science Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The nor'easter smacking much of the Northeast with nearly 3 feet of snow in places is as classic and powerful a blizzard as you can get, the strongest in a decade and up there with the most intense in history, meteorologists said. The ...