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A planned memorial park for the victims of the American Civic Association shooting is in the running for a $50,000 grant. The project is one of the finalists for a Pepsi Refresh Everything grant. To win, it must be among the top 10 vote-getters on... Read More.

The 900 New York workers who are scheduled for layoffs at the end of the year are receiving letters in the mail from the state government. The letters are advising the workers about their rights under union contracts and civil service law, including an option... Read More.

Authorities arrested a local woman and a Texas man at the Elmira airport on Thursday after the two were caught trying to smuggle in methamphetamine from Texas. Police say 39-year-old Stacey Foust of Towanda was planning on selling the drugs locally. She was taken into... Read More.

A Cortland County man was killed in a hunting accident on Saturday. The Department of Environmental Conservation says 54-year-old Alton Carr was shot in the chest by his nephew while the two were hunting in the Town of McGraw around 11am Saturday. Carr was taken by... Read More.

State Police are calling the accident that killed a little boy in Greene on Thursday night a “horrible tragedy.” 23-month-old Collin Clark was struck and killed after running out into traffic on Route 12. State Police say the boy was with family at a home when... Read More.

Bradford County is now home to just the second training facility for natural gas workers in the nation. Chesapeake Energy unveiled its facility in Athens Thursday. The 3,600-square-foot campus can house up to 250 employees at one time. Each morning, the residents are taken to... Read More.

The man who was charged with murdering an Oneonta woman has been released from jail. The Otsego County District Attorney requested that the murder charge be dropped against 27-year-old William Sprague after new evidence came to light. The DA’s office has declined to comment on... Read More.

Broome County legislators have turned down an offer to lease their drilling rights to a natural gas company. Legislators voted 10-3 Thursday against the offer from Denver-based Inflection Energy, which would have given the county $7.8 million up front and 20 percent royalties on any... Read More.

New York State Electric and Gas says they will cut down a tree in the Town of Maine, despite the property owner’s objections. Lidiko Mitchell chained herself to the tree earlier this month in an effort to save it from being cut down. She met... Read More.

The Vestal Town Board approved their 2011 budget Wednesday night. The spending plan includes a property tax increase of nearly 6 percent to residents. Board members have spent the last eight weeks trimming and reorganizing the budget, which slashed the tax hike to its current... Read More.

A New York City man has been found guilty of murder and assault in Elmira. 34-year-old William Jordan was convicted of stabbing another man with an ice pick in January outside an Elmira bar. Robert Pritchett was the man who was killed. An autopsy showed that... Read More.

A decision on whether or not to lease Broome County lands for natural gas drilling could be delayed. The legislature was supposed to consider the offer Thursday, but Inflection Energy has pushed back their deadline from the end of the month to Dec. 17. Company... Read More.