|
|
News stories tagged with "binghamton"
We’re sending a strong message New Yorkers aren't confident horizontal hydrofracking can be done safely.
(01/04/12) More than 100 protestors opposed to hydrofracking gathered in the Empire State Plaza Wednesday outside the auditorium where Governor Andrew Cuomo delivered his State of the State address, chanting "no fracking way!" more
Maria Zobniw and her daughter Chrystia in happier times (Photo used by permission)
Omri Yigal (Matt Rourke/AP)
(07/02/09) Three months have passed since a gunman opened fire at an immigrant services center in Binghamton. Jiverly Wong, a mentally-ill immigrant from Vietnam, murdered thirteen people before taking his own life. Brian Mann was one of the reporters NPR sent to cover the shooting. NPR asked Brian to go back to Binghamton this summer, to talk with families and to find out what happens to a community blindsided by such devastating violence.
1-2 of 2 Photo of the Day
Blacksmith David Woodward sets in place the final piece of the weather vane he made for the Adirondack Carousel in Saranac Lake, which opens Saturday at 1 pm with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Photo: Mark Kurtz.
National & Global News NPR Hourly NewscastThis text will be replaced
 Jeff Neely, the regional official at the General Services Administration who hosted a 2010 taxpayer-funded conference that became a scandal as details about excessive spending, gifts and lavish parties were revealed, is no longer with the agency.  The spin that one British newspaper has put on this otherwise unremarkable story may give you a laugh. So might the video that the <em>Cape Cod Times</em> produced. NPR's Frank Langfitt can't get over how much things have changed for movie fans such as him. In only a decade or so, China's theaters have gone high-tech. And they've gotten expensive. As officials count ballots from this week's first-ever free presidential election, the Muslim Brotherhood is claiming its candidate got the most votes and will be in a runoff next month against ousted President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister.  The historic first mission to dock a commercial spacecraft at the International Space Station is happening today, and is being webcast around the world.  Canada Top Stories
 World Service
Adirondack News Fund Founding Supporters: Paul Smith's College, The College of the Adirondacks · Wildlife Conservation Society · Adirondack Medical Center Foundation · Adirondack Museum · Niagara Mohawk Foundation · Schumann Foundation · John A. Sellon Charitable Trust · several anonymous individual donors |
St. Lawrence University, Canton,
New York 13617 • phone: 1-877-388-6277 • email
radio@ncpr.org
National Public Radio • 
American Public Media • 
Public Radio International
