A Southern Tier man was rescued by a State Police trooper Thursday after he was stranded in his car for 10 hours without any heat.
State Police said Sgt. Jason Cawley responded to 911 calls from a man who had called Tioga County authorities and had run off the road and needed assistance.
But law enforcement in the area had not located the driver as more than 40 inches of snow crippled the Binghamton area.
Cawley continued the search Thursday and drove to the section of State Route 17C in the town of Owego, in the Campville area, where the reports appeared to be coming from.
ALBANY - New York will be setting up regional hubs through local hospital systems to distribute COVID-19 vaccines as early as next month to essential workers and high-risk residents.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo detailed Wednesday that each region will develop its own distribution plan by the first week of January as New York anticipates at least 170,000 doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine in the near term and the potential for 346,000 doses from Moderna starting Dec. 22. It is a medical procedure. It will be handled by medical professionals, Cuomo said. There will be no political favoritism.
New York started distributing the vaccine on Monday, and about 4,000 doses had been administered as of Wednesday morning.
ALBANY - When Gov. Andrew Cuomo ran for governor in 2010, he vowed to let a income tax surcharge on the rich expire in 2011.
But facing budget gaps, the Democratic governor reached a deal with the Republican-led Senate to keep the surcharge, but at a lower rate than had been on the books along with a small middle-class tax cut and a cut in a corporate income tax rate.
Flash forward a decade: Cuomo now faces another call for raising taxes on the wealthy as the state faces a $13 billion deficit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the largest since he first took office.
Why New York leaders are warning of more COVID shutdowns of businesses
New York State Team
ALBANY - Recent COVID restrictions that shuttered indoor dining in New York City and limited them in other parts of the state may not be enough to slow the virus rapid spread, state leaders are warning.
Hospitalizations due to coronavirus continue to grow, hitting 5,700 cases on Sunday, the most in New York since mid-May, state data show.
And while the spring surge was largely in New York City, it is now more spread out, hitting parts of upstate, hitting hardest most recently the Finger Lakes, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Monday.