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Joe Gibbs Racing announced Monday that Michael McDowell will join their team of drivers for the 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series season. McDowell is currently slated to drive in both Nationwide Series races in Iowa behind the wheel of the No. 18 Toyota Camry with... Read More.

Corning Police responding to a report of a foul odor found a Meth Lab in full production. Police say that Michael Wheeler, age 45, of Corning was manufacturing methamphetamine on the second floor of an East Denison Parkway address. Hazmat teams removed the dangerous chemicals from... Read More.

NYSEG reports that the natural gas distribution system in the Southern Tier is being returned to normal, after repairs were made for a pipeline leak this weekend. Customers in Tioga and Broome counties are no longer asked to curtail usage. The leak was near the Broome &... Read More.

Lockheed Martin has won a U.S. Navy contract to continue providing sonar systems for U.S. submarines. The $84 million contract contains options which will bring the total contract value to $2.1 billion, if exercised. The program's scope includes the development, production, support, and modernization of all... Read More.

Many fire stations across Broome County held a volunteer recruitment event Saturday afternoon. Most fire stations in the area are volunteer based and those involved say it's critical to recruit more people in order to keep providing necessary services. Firefighters say the rate of volunteerism... Read More.

An early morning fire caused heavy damage to a mobile home in the Town of Conklin. Fire crews responded to 1048 Powers Road just before 9 a.m. Sunday. No one was home at the time of the fire and officials are unsure if anyone lives... Read More.

Gun shops and private gun traders from throughout the Twin Tiers showed off their weapons Sunday. More than 40 vendors filled the Port Crane Fire Hall for the 10th annual Big Gun Show. Vendors had everything from new and used hunting guns to... Read More.

The Pennsylvania woman who was found to be storing the dead bodies of her husband and twin sister will soon receive them back from the county morgue. A walk-in crypt has been built in the backyard of Jean Stevens’ home in Wyalusing. The 91-year-old was... Read More.

A Pennsylvania court has denied an appeal from Steven Colegrove. The 32-year-old Bradford County native who last lived in Broome County, N.Y. was convicted in 2009 of killing three family members. Colegrove was found guilty of shooting his mother, father and brother with a shotgun inside... Read More.

A standoff that lasted over nine hours ended peacefully in Chenango County early Thursday. Sheriff’s deputies and a state trooper were called to a home on State Highway 23 in the Town of Plymouth for reports of a man who was threatening suicide. The man... Read More.

A warrant has been issued for the man accused of taking a 3-year-old Elmira boy last week after he failed to show for a court appearance on Thursday. Quentin Singletary was originally supposed to be arraigned on a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of... Read More.

Tioga County saw a dip in sales tax revenue of nearly 11 percent last year, according to numbers released by the state Department of Taxation and Finance Office this week. Sales tax receipts dropped from $18.6 million to $16.6 million in the county. Broome County saw... Read More.