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Tuesday, April 02, 2013  A 21-year-old upstate New York man who admitted shooting another man to death after a drug-related robbery has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012  A 37-year-old upstate New York man has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison for fatally beating another man to death with a frying pan three years ago.

Monday, July 30, 2012  At least 16 houses have been declared uninhabitable in the aftermath of a tornado strike in Elmira.

Thursday, July 19, 2012  Authorities say human skeletal remains found in rural area outside Elmira are believed to be those of a man beaten to death with a frying pan three years ago.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012  Authorities say a man has been killed in an accident involving a garbage disposal device in central New York.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012  A 27-year-old Southern Tier woman faces manslaughter charges in the death of her 15-month-old son.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012  Police say a man killed his estranged girlfriend and then himself in an upstate New York farmhouse that was gutted by fire.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012  Authorities say at least two people have died in a house fire in an upstate New York town on the Pennsylvania border.

Monday, June 04, 2012  An upstate New York woman accused of shaking her baby so fiercely he suffered major brain injury is expected to face more serious changes because of the child's death.

Wednesday, April 04, 2012  Funding has been secured for 25 road and bridge projects in Central New York.

Monday, March 12, 2012  A domestic violence investigation leads police to arrest a Lodi man on several charges, including sexually abusing an 11-year-old girl.

Monday, March 12, 2012  The Chemung County Sheriff's office is investigating a fire that killed one person, put two others in the hospital and destroyed a trailer in a mobile home park in Central New York.

Friday, February 10, 2012  A 52-year-old man has been found guilty of causing the fire that killed a woman at a rural upstate New York cabin where methamphetamine was being made.

Thursday, February 09, 2012  Jury deliberations have begun in the manslaughter trial of an upstate New York man charged with causing a woman's death in an explosion at a methamphetamine lab last year.

Monday, June 13, 2011  Authorities say an on-duty sheriff's deputy and a 77-year-old man have been killed in a collision on a Southern Tier  road near the Pennsylvania border.