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The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation has extended a temporary waiver on the hours of service restrictions regarding the delivery of oil and propane for home heating systems.

PennDOT says the extension is in reaction to the prolonged harsh winter conditions

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There will be no permits issued for hydraulic fracture drilling for natural gas in New York State this fiscal year and no money for drilling is in the Governor’s budget proposal. 

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On the weekly local public affairs program, Southern Tier Close Up airing February 1 on WNBF, Southern Tier Aids Program development director, Mary Kaminsky talks about the plans for the first Mud Gauntlet in Broome County

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Bob Joseph/WNBF NewsThe 911 emergency phone system in Broome County is operating again.

The system experienced periodic outages starting at around 3 p.m. January 29 and was finally back in operation at around 3 a

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Declaring 2014 a "year of action" as he unveiled a series of relatively meager executive actions, President Barack Obama vowed in his State of the Union address Tuesday night to sidestep Congress "whenever and wherever" he can in order to push through his agenda.

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Kathy Whyte/ WNBF NewsVolunteers from the Coalition for the Homeless of the Southern Tier and the Rescue Mission in Binghamton are handing out care kits for the homeless and taking a count of how many people in the Binghamton area are without permanent shelter

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The half dozen newly retired racing greyhounds transported out of the area of West Virginia where chemicals had contaminated a major drinking supply are quickly learning how to be family pets instead of doggie athletes

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Kathy Whyte/WNBF NewsSome Southern Tier women have contacted authorities and the Southern Tier AIDS Program after learning a career criminal, who lived for a time in Binghamton intentionally infected women with HIV

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Federal health experts will present results of an IBM worker health study at an Endicott meeting.

Thursday evening's session will be at the First United Methodist Church at 53 McKinley Avenue. The meeting is scheduled to start at 6:30

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Southern Tier leaders are going over Governor Andrew Cuomo’s $137.2 billion budget proposal presented yesterday. 

State Senator Thomas Libous of Binghamton says one of the biggest issues he’s concerned about is the amount of state aid that is earmarked for Southern Tier schools.

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