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The state Department of Health has confirmed that an Oswego County resident contracted Zika virus. The person had traveled to the Caribbean, where Zika virus transmission is common, prior to the diagnosis. Zika is primarily transmitted through the bites of infected mosquitoes and may cause serious health problems to infected people.

Three unvaccinated dogs were exposed to rabies in Oswego County in separate incidents over the past week, the Health Department reported today. In Richland, two unvaccinated dogs were exposed to rabies during an encounter with a raccoon. A third dog was exposed in the town of Albion through a rabid skunk. Another rabid skunk was confirmed in city of Oswego but there were no known exposures to rabies from the skunk.

The arrest occurred as a result of an investigation by State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Troop D Computer Crime Unit and the Mid-State Child Exploitation Task Force.

The incoming SUNY Oswego freshman class of 2021 broke the record for diversity for what is now the third consecutive year. “I think that diversity is important to everybody, every student on this campus. And every faculty member on this campus,” Dean of Students, Jerri Howland. “Because it adds to the what I call the thread, the depth, the feelings the understanding of what it means to be American.”

At about 6:17 p.m. today (Sept. 14), the Oswego City Police Department was dispatched to a report of a pedestrian being struck by a vehicle at the intersection of East Bridge and Sixth streets. A 32-year-old woman was struck by a small SUV, police report. She was transported by Mentor Ambulance to Fulton where she was then transported to Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, by Mercy Flight with serious injuries. The investigation is on-going.