{"id":131258,"date":"2026-02-12T14:41:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131258\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T14:41:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T14:41:15","slug":"morning-briefing-in-central-new-york-feb-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/131258\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Briefing in Central New York: Feb. 12"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning, New York.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today.<\/p>\n

Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n

Snow showers gradually taper through the day with an additional coating to a couple inches possible. Highs in the 20s.<\/p>\n

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Around New York<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0New U.S. attorney fired by DOJ shortly after appointment<\/a><\/p>\n

The Board of Judges appointed Donald Kinsella to the position. He was sworn in during a private ceremony, but just hours later, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche posted to social media, “Judges don\u2019t pick U.S. Attorneys,\u00a0@POTUS\u00a0does. See Article II of our Constitution. You are fired, Donald Kinsella.”<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0New York lawmakers renew push for moratorium on spreading sewage sludge<\/a><\/p>\n

While\u00a0a\u00a0bill\u00a0to place a\u00a0five-year\u00a0moratorium on\u00a0spreading chemical-laden sewage sludge\u00a0on New York\u2019s farmland\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0get a vote in the\u00a0state\u00a0Assembly last year, lawmakers and environmental advocates are renewing their push to pass\u00a0it this year.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0Onondaga County executive asking kids to help name Syracuse aquarium<\/a><\/p>\n

The winner will be selected by a board and invited to attend the facility\u2019s opening day free of charge.<\/p>\n

Around the Nation<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0House votes to slap back Trump’s tariffs on Canada in rare bipartisan rebuke of White House agenda<\/a><\/p>\n

2.\u00a0Bondi defends handling of Epstein files release during fiery House hearing<\/a><\/p>\n

3.\u00a0James Van Der Beek, the ‘Dawson’s Creek’ star who later mocked his own hunky persona, has died at 48<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t Miss This<\/p>\n

Syracuse pulls away in double OT to beat Cal 107-100<\/a>
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\nN.Y. Senate Health Committee Chair Gustavo Rivera discusses North County hospital bankruptcies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good morning, New York.\u00a0Here’s what you need to know today. Your Weather Planner Snow showers gradually taper through…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[577,25,257,9,11,10,49,51,50,380],"class_list":{"0":"post-131258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-morning-briefing","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-central-ny","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news","17":"tag-spectrum-news-staff"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}