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Paul Guggenheimer | Tribune-Review Cheryl Harris, 73, of Penn Hills, takes in a rally at Westinghouse Park in Point Breeze on the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. Paul Guggenheimer | Tribune-Review Ramona Jones of the West End speaks to a group of about 50 people at a rally marking the first anniversary of the murder of George Floyd at Westinghouse Park in Point Breeze. Paul Guggenheimer | Tribune-Review Speakers Ikhana Hal-Makina and Ramona Jones, left, stand together during a rally at Westinghouse Park in Point Breeze marking the first anniversiary of George Floyd’s mur...

One person suffered non-life-threatening injuries in a shooting on Franklin Street on Saturday night, Binghamton police said.

View Comments Kristina Hand, 47, pleaded guilty in January to two counts of federal program theft for stealing federal funds that were provided to her employers at the Morris Central School District in 2018 and 2019. The checks were deposited into bank accounts that she controlled, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. During those years, the Morris school district annually received more than $10,000 in federal funding. The school district terminated Hand’s employment in February 2020, upon discovering the theft. When she pleaded guilty, she admitted that she stole about $24,000 by depositing ...

A national environmental organization's lawsuit against upstate New York scrap metal recycler Ben Weitsman & Son accuses the Owego-based company of failing to take proper steps to prevent polluted stormwater discharge into waterways surrounding its facilities. Sister companies Upstate Shredding and Ben Weitsman & Son characterizes itself as the largest privately-held scrap metal dealer on the East Coast. The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the Sierra Club, a California-based non-profit environmental organization, claims Weitsman facilities "consistently reported high pollutant levels" in ...

View Comments A judge has thrown out a former Bates Troy manager's lawsuit, which claimed misconduct by the longtime family-owned Binghamton linen company's owners, saying he lacked legal standing. Separately, the former manager is accused of embezzlement in a lawsuit Bates Troy filed in April 2019. Bates Troy sued its former employee, Rochester resident Thomas Singe, in 2019 based on claims he embezzled company funds, although his criminal charges had since been dismissed. In March, a new lawsuit on behalf of Singe in his capacity as a shareholder in the company accused Bates Troy's owne...