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A cow in the Upstate New York town of Spencerport has been on the run for almost two weeks, earning the nickname "The Spencerport Bandit."

Someone is dumping bags of animal bones along the Mohawk River in Utica. Bags and bags of bones.

If you drive in Central New York, you need to keep an eye out for animals in the road - chipmunks, squirrels...and sometimes things that just won't mooooooo-ve.

It happens to the best of us: you're late for work. But what do you tell your boss? Here are 7 excuses that only a Central New Yorker could use.

Add runaway pig to the menagerie of strange animals Central New York has seen running loose in its neighborhoods.

The weather has been unseasonably warm, which means more use for your swimming pool. One Waterville man had an unusual...neighbor stopping by for a dip.

Here's something you don't see everyday. A cow holding up traffic in downtown Lowville, New York.

It's been more than three months a cow has been roaming the streets of Utica. Authorities have tried to wrangle the rogue animal, to no avail. Residents have captured pictures of the cow, which is actually a beef steer, and one even caught it on video.

For a state that's home to mega-urban New York City, it may surprise some that there are 4 counties in New York State where there are more cows than people.

UPDATE: 06/17/2015  7:02am  According to WIBX First News producer Andrew Derminio says New Hartofrd Police told him that the last time that the cow was seen was approximately 5:00am at Moe's Southwest Grill.  The cow has not yet been located.