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The Tioga County Legislature officially adopted their 2011 budget at a meeting Tuesday. The $68.8 million spending plan includes an overall property tax increase of 2 percent, although the new tax rates for each town will be decided by the state. The 2011 re-organizational meeting for... Read More.

Representatives from nearly two dozen Broome County municipalities met Tuesday to start planning for a project to revitalize the area along the Susquehanna River. The Broome County Intermunicipal Waterfront Revitalization Project will study a way for the towns and villages to apply for future grants... Read More.

Elmira Jackals players will be busy this week spreading holiday cheer throughout the community. Players stopped by St. Joseph’s Hospital Tuesday to present teddy bears and toys to child patients. Those were collected during Friday’s Teddy Bear Toss Night and Saturday’s Toys for Children Night... Read More.

A portion of Interstate 81 North near the state border was closed for a few hours Tuesday after a tractor-trailer crash. The Broome County Sheriff’s Office says a tractor-trailer collided with a pickup truck between the Pennsylvania line and the Gateway rest stop in Conklin... Read More.

State Police say a wanted man in the Town of Guilford pointed a shotgun at troopers Monday. 26-year-old Bradley Romano is accused of pointing a 16-gauge shotgun at troopers as they attempted to take him into custody yesterday afternoon. Romano fled on foot and was caught... Read More.

Eight Elmira families were left homeless after a fire destroyed their apartment complex on Saturday afternoon. None of the 18 people were injured in the fire on College Ave. City firefighters believe the blaze started in one of the building’s kitchens, but they are still... Read More.

An Endicott man was arrested over the weekend and charged with stabbing two other men. 28-year-old Christopher Reyers was arrested by village police on Saturday morning. Investigators say Reyers stabbed the other two men with a butcher knife during an argument over noise at an... Read More.

New York Gov. David Paterson vetoed a moratorium bill on natural gas drilling over the weekend, but then issued an executive order prohibiting hydraulic fracturing in the state until next summer. Paterson says the bill passed by both the Senate and the Assembly was too... Read More.

The principal at the Seton Catholic High School has admitted that she was arrested in the spring after walking out of a store without paying for her groceries. Kathleen Dwyer addressed the allegations in a letter to the school community this week. She says shoplifting... Read More.

Michigan Police have released a cause of death for the former Endicott woman who was found buried last month underneath her boyfriend’s camper in Bay City, MI. An autopsy shows that 33-year-old Lynn Spicer died of strangulation, according to a police report. Her family says she... Read More.

The man accused of this week’s fatal shooting in Ithaca has been identified as 26-year-old Corbin Whyte. He lives in the Maple Hill Apartment complex, where 47-year-old Paul Garcia was found shot to death in a parking lot early Tuesday morning. Residents say the Bronx... Read More.

The Georgia native who is charged with murdering his pregnant ex-girlfriend in Elmira has been arraigned on murder charges. Police say 35-year-old Arteamus Wells admitted to murdering 19-year-old Erin Smith in her apartment on Monday morning. Wells was arraigned on a charge of second-degree murder in... Read More.