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A historic Delaware County church has been the victim of arson. 31-year-old Michael Allen has been accused of setting the fire that destroyed the First Baptist Church of Walton. Fire destroyed the building around 3am Tuesday. The adjacent parsonage was also destroyed while two nearby homes... Read More.

A Connecticut man has been charged with grand larceny, accused of taking $4,800 from a Broome County resident to upgrade their windows and never doing the work. The sheriff’s office says that 47-year-old Donald Goss may also be responsible for at least 16 other incidents... Read More.

The Broome-Tioga Workforce says business owners in the Southern Tier could be reimbursed more for training new employees. Businesses and organizations in the two counties could receive up to 90% of the hiring and training costs for each new worker. All they need to do... Read More.

A portion of Route 6 in Bradford County was closed for most of Monday after a natural gas drilling rig slid down an embankment. The 72,000-pound rig fell down on Friday when the chains holding it on a truck snapped. It took nearly 8 hours to... Read More.

An Endicott man has been convicted of starting the fire that damaged his apartment complex on Monroe Street in Oct. 2009. 53-year-old Randy Foote faces up to 25 years in jail when he is sentenced on March 14. Foote was facing eviction when Broome County fire... Read More.

New York lawmakers have started changing some of Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposals. One of the governor’s top priorities is capping property taxes at two percent per year or the rate of inflation, whichever is less. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, a fellow Democrat, says his conference... Read More.

The lawyer for Cal Harris was in Albany Monday to appeal his client’s murder conviction. William Easton asked a state appellate court to reverse his client’s conviction on second-degree murder charges and order a new trial or dismiss the murder indictment altogether based on a... Read More.

Pennsylvania State Police are asking for the public’s help to find the person responsible for stealing over $100,000 worth of jewelry from a home in Tioga County, PA. Troopers say an unknown individual or a group of people entered a residence on State Street in... Read More.

Five people were injured in a Chemung County crash on Saturday morning. The sheriff’s office says it happened when 37-year-old Karen Webb failed to yield the right of way while turning onto State Route 328 in Southport. A vehicle driven by 60-year-old John DeMuth struck... Read More.

Two people were killed and two others injured when a car struck a utility pole in Ithaca early Sunday. An Ithaca police officer tried to pull the car over in the city before 1am, but terminated the pursuit once the car headed out of town... Read More.

Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo has announced the details of a piece of legislation she sponsored that will hopefully create a safer environment in New York schools. The Dignity for All Students Act aims to protect students from bullying, harassment and intimidation. It was passed last year... Read More.

Cal Harris will be in Albany on Monday to appeal his latest murder conviction. The former Tioga County businessman was convicted two years ago of killing his wife, Michele, in 2001. Neither the woman’s body nor a murder weapon has ever been found. Harris was convicted of... Read More.