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UPMC says the 17-story facility will have 636 private patient rooms and will deliver specialty care, including transplants, cardiac surgery and neurosurgery.

WHITESBORO, N.Y. -- Its that time of year again in the Village of Whitesboro, as residents are preparing to vote in the mayoral election.

A new water raft and protective gear was unveiled Monday at Whitesboro Fire Department. The gear includes a defibrillator, protective suits, and boots, reach poles for ice and pool rescues,

The increasing risk of flooding drove the Whitesboro Fire Department to purchase its own water rescue equipment, officials said.

Ice jams are leading to overflows in area creeks, with a voluntary evacuation issued Friday morning for the village of Barneveld.

Upstate Family Health Center is holding a vaccination clinic at Whitesboro Fire Department for anyone aged 5 and older.

Carnegie Mellon student participates in own brain surgery Follow Us Question of the Day PITTSBURGH (AP) - For someone just listening in, the conversation sounded almost like small talk. “Before Pittsburgh you lived in …?” “How do you say pizza in Chinese?” TOP STORIES “Did you eat a lot of that in Chicago?” But the conversation was anything but ordinary. Lingwei Cheng, 27, lay on an operating table last fall at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. Multiple screens showed images...

“I knew that I didn’t really have any other options, but it was hard to accept,” she said.

Graduate student in Pittsburgh participates in her own brain surgery

There are not many photographs of Jason Buley. The 46-year-old Holland Patent resident and village of Whitesboro police chief, who died Feb. 2 of cardiac arrest, hated the spotlight, according to his friend Dana Nimey-Olney. "He hated having his picture taken, to the point it was a joke between us where I would make sure I got his picture," she said. "So, other ones Ive snuck of him over the years, while he was working or whatever, are the pictures that we have." Nimey-Olney, the village histo...