{"id":20426,"date":"2025-10-28T21:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20426\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:46:08","slug":"evening-briefing-in-central-ny-october-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/20426\/","title":{"rendered":"Evening Briefing in Central NY: October 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good evening, Central New York. We&#8217;re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you need to know and your weather outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Your Weather Planner<\/p>\n<p>Tonight will be mainly clear and frosty cold with patchy fog possible. Lows will be in the 20s and low 30s.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday will be mostly to partly sunny and seasonably cool with highs in the 50s.<\/p>\n<p>Rain chances and gusty winds return Thursday and Friday with continued highs in the 40s and low 50s.<\/p>\n<p>The first weekend of November looks cool\/chilly with highs in the 40s.<\/p>\n<p>Remember to turn the clocks back early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow&#8217;s Forecast<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/weatherbriefing_10_28_25.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" img-data-width=\"percent-hundred\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central NY Hourly Forecast<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/binghamton\/weather\/interactive-radar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Southern Tier Hourly Forecast<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/watertown\/weather\/interactive-radar\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Northern New York Hourly Forecast<\/a><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s Big Stories<\/p>\n<p>1.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/former-correction-officer-rejects-plea-in-mid-state-prison-death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former correction officer rejects plea in Mid-State prison death<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/capital-region\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/former-correction-officer-rejects-plea-in-mid-state-prison-death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Eck rejected a deal offered by prosecutors for a 12-year prison sentence in return for pleading guilty to first-degree gang assault and tampering with physical evidence.<\/p>\n<p>2.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/politics\/2025\/10\/28\/n-y--extreme-weather-events--disaster-costs-rise-rise\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">N.Y. extreme weather events, disaster response costs rise over recent years, state comptroller report says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The frequency of severe weather events in New York state is growing, meaning disaster response costs have risen over the last three decades or so, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.osc.ny.gov\/files\/reports\/pdf\/severe-weather-events-and-resiliency-in-ny-state.pdf?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=govdelivery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">a new report<\/a>\u00a0released Tuesday by state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>3.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/sports\/2025\/10\/28\/greater-syracuse-sports-hall-of-fame-2025-induction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Super Bowl-winning coach Coughlin part of local Hall of Fame class<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 2025 class of seven includes All-American lacrosse player Brittany Brigandi from CBA and Le Moyne; former NFL player and Auburn native Buddy Hardeman; and former New York Giants Super Bowl-winning coach Tom Coughlin, a Waterloo native who played for and coached with legendary SU football\u00a0coach Ben Schwartzwalder in the 1960s before embarking on a coaching career that took him to Boston College and the NFL, with the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Giants.<\/p>\n<p>4.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/education\/2025\/10\/28\/colgate-university-tuition-fee-waiver-expansion\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Colgate expands waiver of tuition fees<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The private university will be waiving tuition fees starting next fall for all students whose families earn less than $175,000 under its &#8220;Colgate Commitment&#8221; program.<\/p>\n<p>5.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/vernon-center-fire-chief-criticizes-sentence-given-to-former-treasurer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon Center fire chief criticizes sentence given to former treasurer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A man tasked with managing the Vernon Center Fire Department&#8217;s finances was sentenced Tuesday for stealing more than $300,000 from the volunteer force. Oneida County Court Judge Michael Nolan sentenced Jonnell Rose, former treasurer of the Vernon Center Fire Department, to one to three years in prison for stealing $309,000 from the department between May 2018 and May 2024. Rose had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree grand larceny in the case.<\/p>\n<p>6.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/central-ny\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/trump-s-lawyers-ask-new-york-appeals-court-to-toss-hush-money-conviction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump&#8217;s lawyers ask New York appeals court to toss hush money conviction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spectrumlocalnews.com\/nys\/capital-region\/news\/2025\/10\/28\/trump-s-lawyers-ask-new-york-appeals-court-to-toss-hush-money-conviction\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">President Donald Trump\u2019s lawyers have asked a New York state appeals court to toss out his hush money criminal conviction, saying federal law preempts state law and there was no intent to commit a crime. The lawyers filed their written arguments with the state&#8217;s mid-level appeals court just before midnight Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Good evening, Central New York. We&#8217;re wrapping up the day for you with the most important stories you&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[268,257,270,9,11,10,49,51,50,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-20426","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-app-evening-briefing","9":"tag-central-ny","10":"tag-luke-parsnow","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-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20426","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=20426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}