Ithaca News

"Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey" premiered Sunday night , rebooting the series that the late astronomer Carl Sagan turned into a TV classic 34 years ago.

Sunday night's Cosmos premier ended with a touching personal story from Neil deGrasse Tyson on how he first met astrophysicist and science communicator Carl Sagan.

When Cheryl Lamb, of Vestal, watched her mixed Labrador retriever, Bart, go through his end stages of lymphoma she wanted him to be comfortable in his final days at home.

Sheriff deputies are searching for two men following an armed robbery Saturday evening at a drug store in the Town of Ithaca.

The raucous standing ovation diehard conservatives offered Chris Christie as he walked on stage Thursday at the Gaylord National Resort suggested something of a political miracle: The New Jersey governor had managed to surpass the George Washington Bridge scandal that once threatened to squash his 2016 presidential ambitions.

The Finger Lakes State Parks has scheduled its annual New York State lifeguard exams.

For the first time, the worm known as Dracunculus insignis has been seen in two cats in the northeast and reported by professors at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Commonly found in raccoons, the worm can grow as long as a foot and -- the truly disgusting part -- works its way out through the skin.

A small memorial cross and some discarded belongings rest near the torched tent where Richard Sherman was killed.

Whether you're prepping for St. Patrick's Day or just enjoying the warmer weather, this is a great weekend to get out of the house! Here are some ideas for weekend fun.

Achievements and good news about people from Tompkins and neighboring counties: * The following local residents graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in Fall 2013: Eric Irish, of Trumansburg, MBA in business administration.

Cornell University Police charged a Philadelphia man with driving while intoxicated following a traffic stop.

The Canlis family from left, Anne Marie, Clementine, who turned 3 at the beginning of March, William, 8, Mark and Lucy, 5, reflected in Anne Marie's grandmother Sadie Ventola's mirror.

Trigger Warning by Lydia Billings, a photographer born in Ithaca, New York, and based in Rochester, is a series of portraits that center around rape survivors.

Our hearts are all aflutter, like so many flannel-clad, pouty-faced Angela Chases .

Ithaca, N.Y.-The zone of overlap between two popular, closely related backyard birds is moving northward at a rate that matches warming winter temperatures, according to a study by researchers from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Villanova University, and Cornell University.

Students from DeWitt and Boynton middle schools will travel to Liverpool Friday for the New York State Band Directors Association Symposium.

The Human Services Coalition of Tompkins County will take time Friday to recognize unsung heroes when it presents its Community Services and Inclusion Awards.

Steven Ward is visiting assistant professor of Government at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in Qatar.

The Bank of Castile and its sister company, Tompkins Insurance Agencies, are seeking nearly $81,500 in tax breaks for the pending purchase and renovation of a two-story building on Main Street in Batavia.

Community Supported Agriculture is a farmer-consumer relationship that has flourished in the Ithaca area for more than 20 years, yet many people are still not familiar with it.