Fifty years ago this month, Edward A. Hanna became Utica's irreverent, outlandish Mayor, sending shockwaves through the city and grabbing the attention of national media like no modern-day local figure had ever done.
For the first time publicly, Oneida County District Attorney Scott McNamara is shedding some light on a possible motivation behind the beating death of a 19-year-old whom authorities say was brutally assaulted inside the Word of Life Christian Church in Chadwicks this week.