Walton
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 - 3:15 pm
More disturbing details are emerging from the police investigation into an apparent murder-suicide and arson that occurred last week in a Walton home.
On February 19, two people were found dead at a house at 294 John Lockwood Road, which was set on fire... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 - 3:14 pm
A long-dead body has been found during the investigation of an arson-suicide at 294 John Lockwood Road in Walton, where 48-year-old Debra Sundstrom committed suicide by gunshot on February 19.
On the afternoon of February 19, two local police officers --... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Monday, Feb. 25, 2013 - 2:18 pm
This week, Delaware County is likely to join a growing contingent of upstate New York counties declaring opposition to the SAFE Act, New York State's new gun control law.
Among a slate of resolutions to be taken up at the Delaware County Board of... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013 - 10:30 am
Watch out on the roads tonight, drivers: Winter weather advisories are in effect this evening across the Catskills region, and forecasters are calling for freezing rain changing over to snow overnight.
The National Weather Service in Albany has issued a... Read more
By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2013 - 5:02 pm
One of the two people found dead in a burning house on a dead-end road in Walton on Tuesday was 48-year-old Debra S. Sundstrom, according to a press release from the New York State Police.
A forensic pathologist at Lourdes Hospital in Binghamton has found... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 - 3:39 pm
Above: Aerial imagery of a property at 294 John Lockwood Road where two bodies were found Tuesday (highlighted in blue on the map). Source: Delaware County Community Online Mapping Tool.
On Tuesday afternoon, police conducting a criminal investigation at... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 - 11:31 am
Photo of L1A1 SLR semi-automatic rifle by Flickr user Keary O. Published under Creative Commons license.
County governments across upstate New York are weighing in against New York State's new gun control law, the SAFE Act. By the time the dust settles on... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Friday, Feb. 15, 2013 - 10:10 am
Currently making the rounds of Change.org: A petition by pro-drilling Southern Tier residents to allow Broome, Chenango, Chemung, Delaware, Steuben and Tioga Counties to secede from New York State and join Pennsylvania.
The signers, frustrated by New... Read more
By Anne Pyburn Craig on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 10:00 pm
St. Valentine, it might be remembered, got into a heap of trouble for marrying couples in defiance of the government, which had decreed that young men remain single so that they’d make better soldiers for the state. No matter your feelings about Hallmark-... Read more
By Lissa Harris on Wednesday, Feb. 13, 2013 - 1:16 am
New York State is slated to miss a key Wednesday deadline in the long march toward issuing regulations on hydrofracking.
State health commissioner Nirav Shah announced Tuesday, in a letter to Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) commissioner... Read more
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