Tompkins County News

It's part of $1 million in grants going to 31 law enforcement agencies across the state through the State's Division of Criminal Justice Service.

Tompkins County residents felt temperatures take a nosedive Tuesday in what most hope is winter-like weather's last gasp.

In light of Child Abuse Awareness Prevention month, the First Unitarian Society of Ithaca and the Advocacy Center of Tompkins County, is bringing the "Pinwheels for Prevention" movement to Ithaca and have planted a "pinwheel" garden at Aurora and Buffalo streets.

A Whitney Point woman was charged with driving while intoxicated following a motor vehicle accident Saturday night.

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Advanced Design Consulting, the homegrown custom-engineering company that makes scientific instruments and equipment on Ridge Road in Lansing, plans to nearly double its manufacturing and office space to help it keep growing.

Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport Manager Robert Nicholas will retire July 31 after 25 years in the job, it was announced Monday.

Elshabazz is accused of possessing a loaded firearm and possessing heroin and cocaine on Oct. 30, 2013.

Tompkins County Sheriff's deputies charged a Trumansburg man with unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle and other charges following a pursuit on April 6. Nathan R. Nehrbass, 32 of Halseyville Road, Trumansburg, was charged with unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle in the third degree, aggravated unlicensed operation ... (more)

Starting Tuesday, owners of guns considered assault weapons by New York will be faced with a choice: Register those firearms with the state, or potentially face a felony charge.

The Red Cross is shining a light on those who have heroically dedicated themselves to helping others.

Human remains discovered in October at a state park in Tompkins County were in fact those of a missing Syracuse man, a state police investigator has confirmed.

The award is given to someone who welcomes the agency's consumers with disabilities in public or at their place of business.

This month's guest speakers will be Ithaca city Building Department Director of Code Enforcement Mike Niechwiadowicz and Housing and Land Use Supervisor Gino Leonardi discussing their department's restructuring, and important code information.

The Tompkins County Public Library is offering amnesty from fines and collection fees for overdue items.

By 1864, the Civil War was like the great grinding of tectonic plates, pushing at each other, wearing down the nation, murdering her sons, ruining the land.

Congratulations to the Tompkins County Climate Protection Initiative -- a previous winner of the Cornell University Partner in Sustainability Award --for its annual report on green, and great achievements in Tompkins County: tccpi.org/TCCPI_2013.html.

The Ithaca SWAT team completed a search warrant and arrested a man for criminal mischief Thursday morning.

Emily N. Morris was arrested without incident in the 200 block of East State/Martin Luther King Jr. Street on a warrant, acording to the police.

A retired New York State Police investigator who once served on a sex abuse task force was sentenced Wednesday to one year of local incarceration and an undisclosed amount of restitution, following his conviction for one count of first degree sex abuse.