earthquake

Wes Johnson is Big East player of the year, Jim Boeheim is coach of the year
By Erika Wachter
March 9, 2010 - 7:51pm
Plus, College students collect limbs for Haiti and Donovan McNabb and T.O team up again.

Syracuse University Basketball is racking up the Big East awards.

Wes Johnson was named 2009-2010 Big East Player of the Year and Jim Boeheim was selected as 2009-2010 Coach of the Year. The awards were announced at a press conference today at Madison Square Garden, the host site for the Big East Tournament.

Johnson, a junior transfer from Iowa, is the first transfer student to earn Big East Player of the Year honors. He is the fourth Syracuse player to earn the honor.

Wanted: artist for Centro
By Hannah Kollock
March 9, 2010 - 3:40pm
Plus, scientific data shows Chile moved west and New York City Opera switches things up.

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51 dead in Turkey after earthquake
By Alessondra Parra
March 8, 2010 - 3:06pm
Plus, Federal jobs bill would send $3 billion in aid to NY, and Orange basketball drops to No. 3.

An earthquake in southeastern Turkey collapsed homes killing 51 people and injuring 71.  The quake registered a 6.0 magnitude at the Turkish earthquake monitoring center.  Aftershocks registered magnitudes of up to 5.5, hours after the quake.  The quake struck in Elazig providence, and hit the village of Okular hit worse, according to Ozcan Yalcin, press secretary for the province's governor.

Man dies in Syracuse's second homocide of 2010
By Alyssa Norwin
March 8, 2010 - 10:01am
Plus, "The Hurt Locker" wins Best Picture and Turkey earthquake kills more than 50 people

A man was shot in the head while driving on East Genesee  St. last night.  Police later declared his death Syracuse's second homocide of 2010, according to The Post-Standard.  The first occurred in January 2010. 

The shooter was a man driving in another car that pulled up next to Vernel Hills, 27, and fired several shots.  Hills was taken to Upstate University Hospital. He died there later in the night.

Small protest outside of Bank of America in downtown Syracuse
By Braedan Ritter
March 5, 2010 - 1:39pm
Plus, another earthquake hits and Jose Reyes has a thyroid imbalance.

A small protest by members of Syracuse United Neighbors,SUN, occurred earlier today outside of a bank in downtown Syracuse.

The protest, composed of about half a dozen members of SUN, entered the Bank of America across from Clinton Square around 11 a.m. today, according to the Post-Standard.

Chile shook by aftershocks
By Jaime Bellemare
March 5, 2010 - 10:47am
Plus, two candidates claim endorsement and iPad is almost here

As Chile begins to recover from the fifth strongest earthquake in 100 years, two more aftershocks shook parts of the country Friday morning. 

The aftershocks came hours before U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was to meet with Chilean President Michelle Bachelet and her successor. 

 The first aftershock shook the Bio Bio region with a magnitude of 6.0 and another aftershock struck the area near Concepcion around 8:47 with a magnitude of 6.6.

East Coast snowstorms slowing economic activity
By Samuel Taylor
March 3, 2010 - 9:04pm
Plus, a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rocks southern Taiwan and a registered sex offender pleads not guilty in the case of a missing California teenager.

The United States Federal Reserve released a report today which suggests that severe snowstorms along the east coast have slowed economic activity for the first three months of 2010.

The Beige Book Survey shows that the U.S. economy is not improving at a fast enough pace to persuade companies to hire more employees.

According to Syracuse.com, economists predict that the economy will grow at a pace of about 3 percent until the end of March. 

Chilean Mines Reopen
By Katie Siefert
March 1, 2010 - 7:02pm
Plus, Jets running back Thomas Jones will be released and SU and ESF reach an agreement.

Chile reopened its copper mines, closed after Saturday's earthquake, on Monday. There was no serious damage reportedly done to the mines and some were unaffected. A quarter of the top copper producing mines were shut down over the weekend. According to The New York Times, the mines were shut down because of power outages and fear of further disruption.

Leno reclaims "Tonight Show"
By Drew Sagon
March 1, 2010 - 2:17pm
Plus, Syracuse sits atop NCAA rankings and SU students are safe after earthquake and tsunami in Chile

Jay Leno hopes to reclaim the top spot in late night television ratings tonight when he returns to the "Tonight Show" at 11:35 p.m..

Terremoto in Chile
By Sam Disston
February 28, 2010 - 12:02pm
SU junior Sam Disston's Saturday morning began with the terrifying experience of Chile's 8.8-magnitude earthquake.

NOTE: Nineteen Syracuse University students currently live and study in Chile with SU Abroad.  All safely survived Saturday's 8.8 magnitude earthquake. The death toll has reached at least 700, and experts approximate that 2 million have been displaced by the damage.

Junior psychology and spanish major, Sam Disston is spending the semester in Santiago, Chile, and was awoken by the quake. Here is his personal reaction.