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Several weeks after someone fatally shot 12-year-old Aliza Spencer near her Binghamton home, city police have made no arrests in the case. Investigators have said Aliza sustained a gunshot wound to her chest around 10 p.m. April 21 as she walked with her father and brother near the family home on Bigelow Street.

Now that the warm weather months are here, not only are people taking to the outdoors, those who own motorcycles are back on the road, and it's a good time to go over some do's and don'ts for both motorcyclists and motorists. May is Motorcycle Safety Month and the Broome...

Lou Ferrigno, bodybuilding legend and star of the '70s TV show The Incredible Hulk, is set to begin filming a new monster movie in Syracuse, it was recently reported. The new horror-comedy movie, titled The Hermit, is slated to begin filming in August. Ferrigno will reportedly portray a cannibalistic pig farmer in his first "creature role" since playing Marvel's Hulk in the 1978 show.

Los Angeles rockers Classless Act — who will open for Motley Crue, Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett on their summer 2022 tour — recruited Vince Neil for their new song, also titled "Classless Act." The Motley Crue singer appears at the 1:30 mark, snarling a vocal amid...

People are still living in the old Dixie Hotel in downtown Binghamton several weeks after the city code enforcement determined the building is unfit for human habitation. The five-story building on Henry Street is across the street from the main post office. In an email, Deputy Mayor Megan Heiman said...

With the hot weather season here (depending on the day of course), just a reminder that the temperature inside of your vehicle can and will rise to dangerous levels. I place a shield in my window to help keep my vehicle from being too hot when I return, and that helps a bit.

It took almost three years for Stranger Things Season 4 to make its way to streaming. On the plus side, it seems like the Duffer brothers used that time to make a lot of new Stranger Things. Like, way more than you’re expecting. According to Tudum (which is an...

On May 20, 1997, Foo Fighters released The Colour and the Shape, an album that would establish them as a real band, rather than just Dave Grohl's pet solo project. Getting to that point was a process. The Colour and the Shape first started coming together in the fall of 1996. The band - made up of Grohl, guitarist Pat Smear, bassist Nate Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith - began fleshing out song ideas it had practiced during sound checks on their previous tour. Gil Norton, best known for his work with Pixies, was enlisted to produce.

Chicago have released a wistful new single titled "If This Is Goodbye," their first new music in eight years, ahead of their summer co-headlining tour with Brian Wilson. The new song, which you can hear below, is the band's first original release since 2014's Chicago XXXVI: Now, and their first original single since 2008's "Let's Take a Lifetime," which appeared on the beleaguered, long-delayed Stone of Sisyphus. "If This Is Goodbye" finds the band members reflecting on their wild lives and relishing the memories with lyrics like: "If this is goodbye / Let's take one more shot for the memories / Life's too short to be enemies / And if this ends tonight / You can save your tears for the other guys / I'll see you in another life."

One spot in New York is most likely to move the needle on the Richter Scale, but where?. In reality, no, not so much. That at least is in the way you would imagine earthquakes. In New York overall we only see minor tremors. In The Northeast, New York Sees...

Queen returned to recording in the summer of 1976 as international superstars, thanks to the huge hit "Bohemian Rhapsody." A Night at the Opera had also just topped the U.K. charts, becoming Queen's first album to be platinum-certified in the U.S. These new heights gave them some pause when it came time to write new material for the subsequent A Day at the Races.

Rhino Records has announced a super deluxe edition of Dio’s 1983 debut album Holy Diver, complete with unreleased outtakes, live tracks and rarities. Newly remixed by Joe Barresi – known for his work with Tool, Queens of the Stone Age and Slipknot – the set will be available in four-CD, two-LP and digital editions, and released on July 8, marking what would have been Ronnie James Dio’s 80th birthday on July 10.

A Cortland man is facing four felony counts following a narcotics investigation and a traffic stop in the City of Cortland. Sheriff’s officials say 53-year-old Michael Rogers, who was a passenger in the stopped vehicle yesterday morning, was found to have around $7,000-worth of drugs as well as packaging materials and cash.

It’s hard to imagine a popular series such as Seinfeld or Parks and Recreation ever being on thin ice, but it happens more often than you’d think. After all, it takes a lot to keep a show on air. A whole season of television costs a lot of money to produce, and sometimes a network is no longer willing to take that financial risk. As a show grows in popularity, there are cases — such as with Friends — in which the lead actors are paid a hefty sum to stay attached to the series.

Def Leppard have released "Fire It Up," the next song from their new album, Diamond Star Halos, which will arrive on May 27. "Fire It Up" is the third single to be released from the upcoming LP, following "Kick" and "Take What You Want." On May 26, the day before...

What could be record-setting heat is expected in the Twin Tiers for the weekend. The National Weather Service office in Binghamton warns Saturday, May 21 could see temperatures in the 90s with the Heat Index values reaching 95 to 100 degrees. Heat exhaustion and stroke are a real danger and...

I've been going to Syracuse games at the Carrier Dome for so many years and it's given me so many great memories. In 1998, I was sitting in the end zone stands as Donovan McNabb brought the Orange back from a huge deficit to defeat Virginia Tech on the final play of the game.

The topic of safety in Binghamton has been a hot one lately following some seemingly random acts of crime that have left some wondering whether or not it's safe to be outside on their own property not only after dark but even during the daytime hours. Whether you're native to...

On April 21, 2022, 12-year-old Aliza Spencer was out for a walk with her father and brother just before 10:00 p.m. near her home at the corners of Bigelow and Chamberlain Streets in Binghamton when she was shot. Police quickly responded to calls of shots fired and Aliza Spencer was...