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Hempstead Fire Chief Charged With Menacing (Long Island Press)
Nassau County police arrested the Hempstead Fire Department Chief and a second man for allegedly holding a man at gunpoint in what investigators described as an act of vigilantism following a Hempstead gunfight on Sunday afternoon. The 29-year-old man was walking on Tompkins Avenue about five blocks from a shooting about 15 minutes earlier when a [...]Former salon employees turn lemons to lemonade (The Ithaca Journal) T.J. Goehner was contentedly choosing a place to hang a framed movie poster in his new barber shop last month.
New York bear kill second highest in history (The Ithaca Journal) New York hunters killed 1,487 bears last fall, a 15 percent increase from the 1,295 taken in 2008 and the second-highest total ever recorded.
State Education Department releases graduation rate data (WSYR 9 Syracuse) The statewide high school graduation results reported by school districts was released Tuesday by the State Education Department. Click on the headline for a district-by-district breakdown.
Fracking finds supporters, opponents at SHS (Cnylink) To drill or not to drill? That was the question on many minds in the Skaneateles High School auditorium on Tuesday night, Jan. 23. About 100 people attended the school
Chemung nursing homes among best in region, Medicare survey shows (Elmira Star-Gazette) Chemung County nursing homes are of a higher quality than those in neighboring counties, according to a Medicare survey of all U.S. nursing homes.
Rep. Massa Resigns After Harassment Accusations (The Cornell Daily Sun) Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y.), of the 29th Congressional District adjacent to the western border of Ithaca’s 22nd District, will resign from Congress today after reports circulated that he was being investigated for sexual harassment of a male staffer. This comes just days after he announced that he would not be seeking a second term in this November’s elections.
Fund roads, bridges (The Ithaca Journal) Our roads and bridges need our help. Thirty-eight percent of the bridges statewide are considered deficient. In Tompkins County, 42 percent of our bridges are deficient. Statewide half of the pavement is considered fair or poor.
Expensive safety laws (The Ithaca Journal) In the heart of a fiscal crisis, when here in Tompkins County $2.4 million is spent in four months to keep people in their homes and New York State is working to fill a budget deficit of $750 million, the government of New York State is making laws that will drive people away.
Southern Tier nursing homes rate poorly in federal quality-control test (Press & Sun-Bulletin) Southern Tier's nursing homes had a miserable showing in a quality-control test based on a federal rating system.