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A civil rights group representing families of four 12-year-old girls who claim they were strip searched for drugs in school is demanding an apology and other measures from an upstate New York school district.

A tense standoff in Binghamton's First Ward ended after a man surrendered peacefully to city police.

A former upstate New York shoe factory that was converted to a newspaper printing plant will soon be extracting oil from industrial hemp.

A 45-year-old Binghamton man has been convicted for a second time of killing his estranged wife and her boyfriend.

Allegations that four 12-year-old girls were strip-searched for drugs in an upstate New York middle school because they were hyper and giddy raised "serious concerns of racial and gender bias," Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday, as he directed the state Education Department to investigate the incident.

After winter weather postponed the first attempt at a Town Hall, Congressman Anthony Brindisi hosted one Saturday in Binghamton.

An upstate New York school district denied Thursday that four 12-year-old girls were subjected to strip searches in their middle school nurse's office, an allegation that brought a throng of community members to a school board meeting to demand answers and disciplinary action against staff members.

Anger over an alleged strip search of four girls at a Binghamton middle school now is receiving attention across the United States.

A community firestorm has erupted over an alleged strip search of four 12-year-old girls at a New York middle school.

An industrial hemp processing company based in Canada is planning a facility in New York's Southern Tier.