Bob Joseph

A rental registration law that was approved by city council more than a year ago is going into effect in Binghamton.

City code enforcement director Tom Costello says the law takes effect today.

Speaking on WNBF Radio's Binghamton Now program, Costello said the rental properties in what's described as the "urban overlay district" on the city's West Side are to be registered first.

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The head of a New York state coalition of business and trade groups says he's hearing plenty of questions about the television commercials people are seeing touting a "New New York."

Unshackle Upstate executive director Brian Sampson says many New York business owners he's spoken with find the message in the ads to be "very frustrating

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Some of the expected improvement projects at the downtown Binghamton Boscov's department store apparently will be getting underway soon.

Roofing materials were being hoisted by crane to the top of the store at Court and Water streets Tuesday morning

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An Endicott man has been accused of setting a fire at the village motel where he's been living.

Authorities say 50-year-old James Clark is suspected of setting fire to items inside a cart at the Endicott Inn at 214 Washington Avenue

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Endicott police have arrested a man suspected of taking two dirt bikes from a garage.

Authorities say 23-year-old Leonard Adams III of Odell Avenue has been charged with third-degree burglary, a felony

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A Broome County man is one of four protesters serving sentences at Onondaga County Jail this week after being convicted of trespass counts in connection with an October demonstration.

James Clune of Binghamton and three other men were sentenced to 15 days in jail by DeWitt town judge Robert Jokl

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Tioga County sheriff's deputies arrested a Binghamton man following a reported domestic incident in the town of Owego.

Authorities say 28-year-old Heath Woodruff of Brook Avenue was charged with assault and criminal trespass

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Broome County aviation commissioner Carl Beardsley says he's glad Congress acted to address flight delays linked to air traffic controller furloughs.

Speaking on WNBF Radio's Binghamton Now program, Beardsley said there had been some "short ground delays" at the Greater Binghamton Airport related to issues that occurred at other airports. He said the del

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State police today arrested a Tompkins County man after a vehicle crash in the town of Dryden.

Authorities say 23-year-old Justin Petrillose of Dryden was charged with driving while intoxicated

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A Bradford County man has been accused of trying to lure a 14-year-old girl into his vehicle and then exposing himself to her as she walked to a school bus stop in the village of Nichols.

Authorities say 32-year-old Ruben Bailey of Ulster was charged with stalking and public lewdness

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