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Thursday, May 02, 2013  A mid-level appeals court says New York municipalities can use local zoning laws to ban the use of hydraulic fracturing to drill for natural gas.

Thursday, May 02, 2013  The man accused of shooting two men in a Newfield trailer park on Tuesday is wanted by the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office. They say he should be considered armed and dangerous.

Wednesday, May 01, 2013  The Ithaca man partially convicted of shooting an Ithaca Police Officer is now accused of assaulting a corrections officer while in jail awaiting sentencing.

Wednesday, May 01, 2013  Schools in the Newfield School District were briefly on lockdown Tuesday afternoon after a report of a shooting in Newfield.

Monday, April 22, 2013 

Thursday, April 18, 2013  Old Tompkins County Courthouse in Ithaca has been renamed in honor of the New York governor credited with helping abolish slavery in the state in the early 19th century.

Friday, April 12, 2013  A Syracuse was is accused of stealing a car and leading police on a chase through Ithaca.

Thursday, April 11, 2013  Testimony is underway in the trial of a 23-year-old man charged with wounding a central New York police officer last fall.

Sunday, April 07, 2013  Ithaca, Rome airports spared until at least mid-June

Thursday, April 04, 2013  A 22-year-old Cornell University wrestler has been charged after a woman said she woke up to find him raping her Saturday night. The woman's partner later took a photo that led to his arrest on Tuesday.

Wednesday, April 03, 2013  Officials have released preliminary data showing the unemployment rate in upstate New York was 9.2 percent in February, unchanged from a year earlier.

Tuesday, March 26, 2013  A Liverpool man admits his role as ringleader of a prostitution enterprise.

Friday, March 22, 2013  The Lansing Central School District has alerted parents of a suspicious person in the area. School officials say they received three reports of a white, male driver in a blue car approaching children in Tompkins County.

Friday, March 08, 2013  A Cornell U. fraternity sends the house mascot goat off to Farm Sanctuary for a better life.

Monday, February 18, 2013  Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office say a property owner on Shields Road in the Town of Venice reported that he had witnessed a suspicious van repeatedly driving past his farm on Thursday.