Syracuse, N.Y. — Onondaga County has agreed to pay $100,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by a woman whose premature newborn died in 2022 after she gave birth at the county jail in downtown Syracuse.Cheree Byrd was being held at the Onondaga County Justice Center on a misdemeanor petit larceny warrant when she went into labor and gave birth on Aug. 2, 2022. The petit larceny charge by the Syracuse police was later dismissed. ...read more read less