First News With Keeler in the Morning

Every weekday morning on the Keeler Show at 7:35 we play Hobika's Free Money Question of the Day. It's basically a trivia question to win $100 and we give the contestant 7-seconds to answer. Every once in a while, there's controversy around the question, like there was on Friday.

Believe it or not, there is an app that you can install on your phone that will allow you to buy lottery tickets from the comfort of your couch. It's true. It's called Jackpocket and it's in conjunction with the New York State Lottery.

Oneida County saw 50 new cases of COVID-19 on Saturday for the first time since February 27th. New COVID cases have been below 50 new cases per day for well over a month, and new cases this past weekend totaled 77, with 22 new cases on Sunday.

The Utica Comets will play at home on Friday night against Rochester and fans will be allowed inside the Adirondack Bank Center for the first time in more than a year.

This is the parking lot located next to the Stanley Theatre. It's the lot that urban planners would like to build on to create low income housing for artists in Utica. There are many people that support the project, and many who don't.

Downtown Utica is under construction like never before, with a new traffic pattern and the addition of new sidewalks and streets, the Nexus Center, and of course, the downtown Utica hospital project.
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A local bank is warning customers of two new scams that are tricking people into giving criminals access to their bank accounts.

I am so annoyed at this latest marketing ploy by Pepsi and Peeps, claiming to release an ultra-limited Peeps flavored Pepsi in a three pack of different colored cans, each teasing you with the flavor of marshmallow. The product looks very enticing, but the promotion seems to be extra flat. Or, are w…

I am not a conspiracy theorist and I work very hard to come up with logical explanations for things that look, well...a bit fishy. This time, however, I feel like I'm head-first in the rabbit hole as I'm convinced social media is spying on my conversations.

Recently, my wife and I discovered a cluster of moths flying inside our very clean walk-in pantry. Thanks to Google, we quickly discovered the bugs were pantry moths and the only way to get rid of them is to throw everything out, and clean thoroughly. That's what we did two weeks ago and my upd…