It took that long for DeVesty, now 50 and the mother of two young adult boys, to rip that hand from her mouth and speak about what happened to her. In the past three years, she has devoted her life to enabling other abused men and women find their voice and a path to healing through a fast-growing project she calls the Clean Slate Diaries.

 If the crowd attending the Syracuse University spring football game expected to come away with answers about next season’s squad, they exited disappointed. When trying to evaluate a school’s players against each other, the takeaways can be genuinely mixed.

 Dr. Zina Berry, a Syracuse dentist, didn’t sugarcoat the difficulty running a business. “Business is not something learned in a textbook,” she told about 100 people during an afternoon workshop April 16. “When you’re in school and getting A’s, then you go out to the bank with your business plan and they say, ‘No.’ It’s not an easy task, but once you get it, you hold onto it and work it, work it, work it.”

Lazarus Sims hit the floor at half court last Sunday, April 14, in the Southwest Community Center gym. For a few scary minutes, he lay motionless, a seeming redux of Kobe Bryant’s NBA season-ending spill last week.

When Alfonso Davis gathered his supporters at Sophistications Cafe on Saturday, April 13, to announce that he was running for mayor of Syracuse, he never mentioned the name of Mayor Stephanie Miner, the incumbent he seeks to oust.

It had to take two strikes before the Syracuse Chiefs could begin their 2013 hometown season slate. The Boys of Summer had to contend with nagging precipitation on the afternoon of Friday, April 12, scheduled as Opening Day.

Shelly House hasn’t always been an avid reader, but you wouldn’t guess it from the way she consumes books these days. House, of Liverpool, visits a library every day and reads four or five books a week.

Debra Graham is a survivor.In April 2003, she lost her youngest son, Josh, to suicide. Although she says losing a loved one to such tragedy is a horrific pain, Graham found hope through her involvemen

Everyone knows that Central New York is the epicenter of college lacrosse. Going into the NCAA men’s basketball Final Four, you could make also make a strong case that Syracuse had become the geo

Final Four frenzy is usually a pretty frothy affair. Beer ads punctuate the games broadcast on television. Sports bars fill up with fanatic Orange fans.Even newspaper coverage highlights the bar scene