Bob Joseph

Endicott mayor John Bertoni says staffing options for the police department must be considered as the village works to deal with its financial challenges.

Speaking on WNBF Radio's Binghamton Now program, Bertoni said officials are looking at the costs associated with the staffing requirements under the current police contract, which will expire in just over a year.

The mayor sa

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A man who's been working to keep a family home on Binghamton's West Side said it appears to him that Broome County "still wants to punish us."

Volodymyr Kurylo -- who now lives in the state of Maine -- said he met with county attorney Robert Behnke and real property tax service director Kevin Keough Tuesday morning

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A parody video posted on YouTube depicting a pro-fracking Governor Andrew Cuomo as Adolf Hitler is generating controversy.

The video uses about three-and-a-half minutes of a 2004 film called "Downfall

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The Broome County Office of Energy Development has been operating for almost seven weeks without authorization from lawmakers.

The legislature could vote on approving the office this Thursday.

Some Broome County residents have questioned the real purpose of the office, which was created by County Executive Debra Preston

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A downtown Binghamton restaurant that was shut down after a sprinkler system pipe froze and then burst is reopening.

The Loft At Ninety-Nine bar and restaurant was closed due to damage sustained following the water line incident.

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The thirteen bird figurines that were put in place several weeks ago at Binghamton's ACA Memorial Park site are to be temporarily removed.

Project coordinator David Marsland say the figurines will be inspected by their creator, Rochester-area glass artisan Milon Townsend

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Nearly a year after the landmark Crowley Foods plant on Binghamton's South Side was shut down, there's still no word on what will happen with the property.

The plug was pulled on the Conklin Avenue milk processing facility March 16

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A Binghamton man has been charged with felony assault in connection with a vicious attack on another Broome County Jail inmate.

Authorities say 27-year-old Robert Gallagher of Charlotte Street was arrested in connection with an incident Sunday at the town of Dickinson facility

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Several hundred people in Broome County have had the flu in recent months.

Mari Yourdon of the Broome County Health Department says flu activity has been declining.

Speaking on WNBF Radio's Binghamton Now program, Yourdon said the department recorded only three new influenza cases last week.

The number o

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A Coventry man faces several charges after a reported dispute.

Authorities say 25-year-old Robert Robertson III was arrested following an investigation into an incident on Route 206 in Coventry

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