Binghamton News

A top Republican in the state Senate is undergoing a second round of chemotherapy, leaving him to ponder his future in elected office after the cancer that started in his prostate spread to his lungs.

Lost Dog in Binghamton will celebrate the one-year anniversary of its cocktail lounge with music and more at 9 p.m. Friday.

Juanita Diaz-Cotto knows she's seen as radical. The activist academic blurs the lines that often delineate two clear, if not antagonistic, camps: scholarship and social justice.

The Binghamton University men's basketball team has started summer session workouts.

The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday that would block New York benefit cards from being used at strip clubs and casinos or for items like alcohol and cigarettes, but the state Assembly isn't expected to take up the measure before the legislative session ends this week.

The Broome County-owned Twilight Diner in the city's downtown is on its way out of taxpayer hands.

The Binghamton Mets' game Tuesday night against the Richmond Flying Squirrels was postponed due to rain.

A man who went on a rant about national security on a flight from Hong Kong to Newark-Liberty International Airport Monday once worked for the U.S. State Department.

Pinnacle Fitness and Training Center has relocated to Valley Plaza Drive, completing a move from Upper Court Street in Binghamton.

Two dozen communities were designated Tuesday as fiscally stressed, including Monroe and Broome counties and the town of Ramapo in Rockland County.

Tuesday will see isolated showers, interspersed with scattered showers and thunderstorms in the early afternoon in the Binghamton and Elmira areas, according to National Weather Service forecasts.

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With the legislative session slated to close Thursday, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and top lawmakers are gearing up for a late night Monday to try and hammer out deals on major legislation before the calendar turns to Tuesday.

Family Planning of South Central New York, Inc. will mark National HIV Testing Day by offering free confidential rapid HIV testing and counseling from noon to 4 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at these health centers: 117 Hawley St., Binghamton; The Eaton Center, Suite 208, 26 Conkey Ave., Norwich; 37 Dietz St., Oneonta; and 37 Pleasant St., Sidney.

The Binghamton Bridge Pedal, a police-escorted bike tour around downtown Binghamton and the river corridor areas, is canceled this year.

A Florida-based limited liability company has once again retained ownership of the former Binghamton Masonic Temple, reaching an agreement with Broome County to pay off delinquent taxes over the next two years.

The death of a Binghamton man found in his apartment over the weekend is being investigated as a homicide, according to Binghamton police detectives.

A Binghamton man was charged with driving while intoxicated following a Sunday night crash on Bevier Street, according to the Broome County Sheriff's Office.

They were workers preparing a long-anticipated store for its Tuesday morning curtain call with the fervent determination of an ant colony.

I was a "perfect" student in school. I was at my desk every day for 121 2 years.