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A former Binghamton city councilman who had been considering a run for mayor this year today said he's decided against it.

Businessman John Cordisco had been contemplating a campaign for the Democratic nomination in recent weeks

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Detectives are trying to track down a man who grabbed a bunch of lottery tickets from a Binghamton First Ward convenience store without paying for them.

Investigators say the incident happened just before five o'clock Tuesday morning at Manley's Mighty Mart at Clinton and Jarvis streets

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The transition process is almost finished. The Binghamton Riverwalk Hotel is about to turn into a DoubleTree by Hilton.

William "Bud" Nolan is general manager of the downtown hotel on Water Street

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Tioga Downs Racetrack and Casino opens another season of harness racing this Saturday, May 4th with a special post time of 5:00 PM.  For the rest of May live race nights are Fridays and Saturdays beginning at 6:50 PM and Sunday afternoons at 1:30 PM

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SureScan Corporation -- which for a short time was a subsidiary of Endicott Interconnect Technologies -- is continuing to operate out of a small industrial building in Endwell.

SureScan operations manager James Herard today declined to comment on specifics regarding the company's business when contacted by WNBF News.

Herard said

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Hess Corporation is continuing to look at a range of possible options for its convenience stores in the Binghamton area and in many other markets in the eastern United States.

Some customers of a Hess Express store on Binghamton's West Side were wondering whether operational changes were about to occur there after they noticed work crews around gasoline pumps in recent days

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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.

Costello sai

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UPDATE 2:25 p.m. EST: The suspects' names are Azamat Tazhayakov, Dias Kadyrbayev and Robel Phillipos. From The Boston Globe:
Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both 19 and of New Bedford, were charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice by plotting to dispose of a laptop computer and a backpack containing fireworks belonging to bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the US attorney’s office said in a statement.

Robel Phillipos, 19, of Cambridge was charged with making false statements to law enforcement officials in a terorism investigation, prosecutors said.
12:10 p.m. EST: According to Boston.com, the three suspects went to school at UMass-Dartmouth with Dzhokar Tsarnaev and may have helped him in the days immediately following the bombing, which was on April 15. Two of the suspects have been charged with overstaying their student visas.

The Boston Police Department announced that it has taken into custody three new suspects as a result of its ongoing investigation into the Boston Marathon bombing.

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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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