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A new analysis of data from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Postsecondary Education shows several campuses in the State University of New York system have some of the nation’s highest rates of on-campus drug arrests. According to the data, SUNY Oswego is ranked number 2; something college officials say isn’t completely accurate.

SUNY Oswego University Police today (Feb. 13) arrested Abhay Pant, 18, of Hart Hall on campus and of New Delhi, India, on a charge of first-degree rape, a class B felony. He is accused of entering a residence hall room and sexually assaulting the resident in the early morning hours today.

For the first time, Rochester Institute of Technology’s MAGIC Spell Studios has published a student-developed game on Steam, the world’s largest digital game distribution platform. The team plans to showcase it at the nation’s biggest gaming conference next month. Created by 2014 game design and development graduates Preston Johnson and Doug Lynn, A.V. puts players inside a hostile computer world where they must solve puzzles and avoid detection to survive.

At 10:30 a.m. today (Feb. 13), Mayor Thomas W. Gillen lifted the Travel Advisory in the city of Oswego, which was imposed on February 12 due to the heavy snow accumulations and white-out conditions in our immediate area.

Call it the ‘yellow pages’ for the new millennium. The 211 program offers residents an overview of human service agencies and program in and around Oswego County.

With extreme cold weather forecast for Oswego County and Central New York over the next few days, Oswego County Public Health Director Jiancheng Huang is advising people to take extra precautions to protect themselves from frostbite, hypothermia and other health conditions that are aggravated by cold weather.

Effective immediately, Mayor Thomas W. Gillen has issued a Travel Advisory in the City of Oswego due to heavy snow accumulations and white?out conditions in our immediate area. This Travel Advisory will remain in effect until further notice.