Edward Suits, who accidentally fell out of a third story window in the Quinn Hotel early yesterday morning while trying to escape the heat by sleeping near the window, is reported to be much improved today at City Hospital and is expected to make a full recovery.

July 11, 1946

Governor Dewey declared today the New York state's thruway would be the greatest highway in the world.

July 11, 1996

Owasco is ready to take the next step in upgrading its 50-year-old water system. The estimated $1.6 million project, which won preliminary approval in February, will include a new clear well and filtration system and allow Owasco to increase its capacity from 500,000 to a million gallons a day.

July 11, 2001

AUBURN - In a city that was the first to use the electric chair, residents seemed to accept the execution of Timothy McVeigh, who died by lethal injection at 7:14 a.m. today in Terre Haute, Ind., and 8:14 a.m. EDT. “I think it's just,” said Tony Mucedola, one of several people interviewed today at Hunter Dinerant. “He's too dangerous, even in prison.”

- Linda Simmons