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WASHINGTON (AP) — There were no champagne corks popping at the White House after Congress passed a two-year budget deal, no declarations of a new era of cooperation in President Barack Obama's second term.

Almost everyone is selling something, especially around the holidays.

Voters in area school districts will be taking to the polls on Tuesday to decide whether or not proposed budgets will be accepted, and who will be selected to fill open school board positions.

Only a handful of people showed up for the Tuesday's formal presentation of the Utica City School District's 2013-14 budget.

For the sixth straight year, Oneida County has ended its fiscal year in a high note.

Five and a half teaching positions are coming back to the Utica City School District, but 93 others will still be cut from this year's budget.

The Utica City School District's Board of Education passed its budget for this year, though one member was not pleased. In a 6 to 1 vote, only Louis LaPolla was against the budget, saying several changes made during the executive session stopped him from supporting it...

A new law that is part of the budget deal being discussed in Albany will set a minimum fine of fifty dollars for those ticketed for a first-time texting while driving offense.

The Utica Common Council is organizing the City of Utica Council Cup to benefit the Youth Bureau.

It only took a half hour, but the Common Council overrode all seven of Mayor Robert Palmieri's vetoes to the city budget.