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Patrick Shea was indicted by a grand jury in Broome County Court Thursday and is being detained without bail at the county correctional facility. He pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Sen. Chuck Schumer announced last year that he had secured millions from the federal CHIPS and Science Act to help make Binghamton a hub for battery research and manufacturing. Now that funding could disappear under Trump.

New York Secretary of State Walter Mosley was in Binghamton Thursday to announce the city will receive $10 million in state funding to revitalize Clinton St. in the First Ward neighborhood. The villages of Bath and Dryden were also both awarded $4.5 million.

It's been three years since Russia invaded Ukraine. Amid uncertainty over whether the U.S. policy on the war will change, members of Binghamton’s Ukrainian community gathered to remember the lives lost and call for the U.S. to continue its support.

Firefighter John “JR” Gaudet died after a wall collapsed while the department was fighting a fire in downtown Binghamton.

Housing advocates and organizers gathered in downtown Binghamton Saturday, handing out hot food, warm clothes, and harm reduction supplies like fentanyl test strips and the overdose-reversing drug naloxone.

In 2023, a Binghamton police officer knelt on Hamail Waddell's neck and back during an arrest following a late-night brawl in downtown Binghamton. Waddell was charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and resisting arrest after the incident. Following a two-day trial last month, Waddell was found guilty Tuesday.

Advocates say Broome County is not doing enough to address an increasingly urgent housing shortage.

Hamail Waddell, whose arrest by a Binghamton police officer was deemed an excessive use of force by the New York attorney general’s office, is facing charges of resisting arrest and disorderly conduct. The Binghamton city judge who heard testimony last week in the two-day bench trial is expected to deliver a verdict later this month.

A 2023 assessment found a majority of the city's railroad bridges were in "severe" or "poor" condition. Crews from Norfolk Southern, the railroad company that owns most of Binghamton's railroad bridges, wrapped up work on the Jarvis Street underpass last week.