1 person has died following a 2 vehicle crash in Binghamton yesterday afternoon.  Binghamton Police responded at about 2:40 PM, after 2 vehicles collided & crashed into a house at the corner of Leroy & Chapin Streets.  4 people were injured & taken to area hospitals, the names of the deceased & the injured parties have not yet been released.

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Meetings are underway between representatives from Minor & Major League Baseball & The Commissioner’s office, regarding plans to eliminated about a quarter of Minor League baseball teams, a plan that could save Major league baseball owners hundreds of thousands of dollars.  State Senator Fred Akshar explains:

(Fred Akshar 11-22-19)

The plan calls for most single a sort season teams to be eliminated, with the Brooklyn Cyclones owned by New York Mets Ownership, to be moved into the Double A Eastern league & eliminate the Binghamton Rumble ponies as the Mets Double A team, Binghamton is privately owned by John Hughes.

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Delhi Village Police Department executed a “no-knock” search warrant Thursday at 42 Main Street. Police seized cocaine, marijuana, and diverted prescription medications, plus $750 in suspected drug proceeds, digital scales, drug packaging materials, and a replica handgun.  Police arrested 24-year-old Malcolm Griffith of Brooklyn for Criminal Possession of a Controlled Substance & Tampering with Physical Evidence; he was arraigned in the Town of Delhi Court and remanded to the Delaware County Jail on $50,000 cash bail or $100,000 dollars secured bond.  Delhi Police are considering additional charges in relation to this arrest.

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Libertarian candidate Michael Korchak has been declared the winner in the race for Broome County district attorney of Republican Paul Battisti.  Korchak lost the Republican primary earlier this year to Battisti & ran on a 3rd party line, and after a close race on election day, and after the counting of absentee and affidavit ballots were counted,  Korchak won by 46 votes over Battisti, who said that he will not concede & is demanding a recount.

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51 year old Julio Recio, a fugitive from justice has extradited from Spain and transported by US Marshals, to begin serving a 30-month prison sentence imposed in 1999 in a Federal Courtroom in Binghamton.   Recio transported cocaine from New York City to Binghamton, he was arrested in Binghamton, he pled guilty to a drug conspiracy charge & was sentenced to a 30 month term & was ordered him to self-report to prison, and instead, he fled the country until the U.S. Marshals identified him traveling between the Dominican Republic and Spain under an assumed name.   Recio will be transferred to a federal prison to serve his term.

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Broome County Sheriff’s department arrested 3 people following an unruly protest at the County Office Building Thursday afternoon during the regularly scheduled meeting of the Broome County Legislature. Deputies were informed that some protesters were unruly and refused to obey directives from the Broome County Division of Security.  Arrested were 20 year old Brian McQuaid, 28 year old Quinton Archer & 30 year old Carinne Vizvary, all of Binghamton, they were charged with Obstructing governmental administration, resisting arrest, & were processed by the Binghamton Police Department.