ROME, N.Y. -- Rome Mayor Jeff Lanigan has pled guilty to harassment. Lanigan entered the plea just minutes before his harassment trial was set to begin Friday in Rome City Court. He was accused of harassing former mayor Jim Brown in the parking lot of Teugega Country Club this past summer.

Video evidence from the encounter between current Rome Mayor Jeffrey M. Lanigan and former Rome Mayor James F. Brown was played during Lanigan's harassment trial in Rome City Court today.

Rino Barillari has been snapping photos of, and sparring with, the famous for 65 years, from Princess Margaret to Lady Gaga, Peter O’Toole to Spike Lee. He is now a fixture himself in the celebrity firmament.

The Rome Police Department said officers were called to John Graham Homes, where a body was found outside, covered with blankets, on Tuesday afternoon. This is near Hull Avenue and Cedar Avenue. According to the police department, they are still working to learn how the 20-year-old woman died, but she was not shot.

A fire at a two-story apartment on Rome-Oriskany Road early Tuesday morning has now resulted in two deaths and several injuries.

Rome, N.Y. - A woman who was found severely burned outside a fire that destroyed a Rome apartment building Tuesday has died, according to the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office. She’s the second person to die from the fire that displaced 20 people, according to Kenneth White, the Rome Commissioner of Public Safety.

A man who is facing a slew of charges in connection to a Rome woman’s beating death is now facing additional charges as of Friday.Mystique Taylor, 23, has now been charged with feticide. Taylor was previously charged with two counts of felony murder,

Rome Mayor Jeffrey M. Lanigan has been found guilty of harassing former mayor James Brown at his trial in City Court today.

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