Each week, syracuse.com will look back at some of our most important and valuable journalism from the previous week. Here are six stories for the week of Nov. 16, 2025.
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Over 150 people pack Clay hearing to fight eviction of 91-year-old widow for Micron project
Supporters of Azalia King swell into Clay Town Hall to speak out against her eviction by Micron
More than 150 people packed the Clay Town Hall to fight back against Onondaga County’s efforts to evict a 91-year-old widow from her home to make way for Micron Technology. The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency is trying to use eminent domain to evict Azalia King from the house on Caughdenoy Road, where the agency promised in writing she could spend the rest of her life. The county later announced it reached an agreement with King.
See inside immigration raid at Cato factory as agents bust into bathrooms, sort workers (video)
Federal agents in military-style tactical gear filmed their actions as they stormed a Cato nutrition bar plant in September, ordering dozens people off the production floor, kicking in bathrooms and herding people into a hot break room. The videos, made public in a federal court filing, confirm what witnesses told syracuse.com in interviews after the Sept. 4 immigration raid on the Nutrition Bar Confectioners plant: Agents lined up Latino workers and released people they said were U.S. citizens. They questioned and detained 57 people, including people who said only that they wanted a lawyer.
Steve Angeli opens up on sudden end to his season and his injury rehab: ‘I cried a little bit’
Syracuse quarterback Steve Angeli walked into the Ensley Athletic Center on his own, without any assistance except for a heavy protective boot on his lower-left leg. Angeli told syracuse.com | The Post-Standard he is ahead of schedule in his recovery from a torn Achilles tendon and is optimistic he could participate in some team workouts in the spring. In one of his first interviews since the season-altering injury two months ago, Angeli described the feeling of realizing his breakout college football season had ended with the suddenness of a popping tendon.
A steel beam on an aging Syracuse parking garage sinks 9 inches without notice. What happened?
City masons doing a minor repair in a prominent 550-car downtown parking garage Nov. 3 picked up something odd: a sheared bolt. Syracuse officials investigated and made a startling discovery: A steel beam helping to hold up the seven-story structure had sunk 9 inches into the ground in recent months, 40 years after its construction. The movement of the beam dragged down heavy concrete panels attached to it. That created gaps between the panels — visual evidence of the dangerous structural defect. The failure leaves in doubt the future of the city-owned Fayette Street garage a block from City Hall.
The 5 storylines that will shape the Syracuse football offseason heading into 2026
Syracuse will be preparing for its third season under Fran Brown this offseason and, like any team that is among the worst in Power-Four college football, there are some big-picture questions to answer. Unlike most teams that perform this poorly, there isn’t a question of whether the head coach will return. But Brown will face lots of choices that shape Syracuse next season and beyond. Here are the five biggest things to follow as the offseason approaches.
New board chair at Syracuse Housing Authority ‘comfortable’ keeping Bill Simmons in charge
The newly appointed president of the Syracuse Housing Authority board says he’s “comfortable” keeping the organization’s embattled executive director. That means Bill Simmons’ job appears safe for the time being, despite Mayor-Elect Sharon Owens’ campaign claims that she would work to remove him. After Thursday’s SHA meeting, the first with with two newly appointed commissioners, the new board chair shut down talk of any quick removal of Simmons as executive director.