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. 2, 2025.

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Her mother and Oswego County workers left her in squalor. A state trooper refused to walk away

Aaron Eastwood knows Danielle Killmore. He would often see her pushing her dolls in a baby stroller along Route 11 as cars whizzed by. Eastwood, a state police sergeant, would stop to gently remind her: Don’t play too close to the road. But when he saw Killmore July 29, she was unrecognizable, he said. Killmore, 46, was covered in dirt as she lay on a cot in a small storage shed. Her hair was plastered to her face with sweat. She

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