{"id":4401,"date":"2015-08-04T14:49:35","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T18:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2015-08-04T14:49:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T18:49:35","slug":"a-m-news-tuesday-8-4-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/a-m-news-tuesday-8-4-15\/","title":{"rendered":"A.M. NEWS TUESDAY 8-4-15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Cuomo will be in Broome County this morning, at 10:45 he will make an announcement at the Kirkwood Industrial Park West.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nThe Republican committees in the 52 State Senate District have announced that Broome County Under sheriff Fred Akshar will be their candidate for the special election to fill that seat. A special election was necessary following the conviction on federal charges &amp; subsequent expulsion of long time Republican Senator Tom Libous of Binghamton, Democrats have already announced that former Broome County Executive &amp; Former State DMV Commissioner Barbara Fiala will be their candidate.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nAfton Fire responded Monday night to Wagner Lumber at 224 County Road 26 for a reported Electrical Fire. Fire fighters were called in from Coventry, Bainbridge, Greene, &amp; Harpursville.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nState Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Monday that the retailers including Wal-Mart, Sears and Amazon have agreed to halt the sales of life-like toy guns in New York. The retailers have also agreed to pay over $300,000 in penalties. Schneiderman\u2019s office found that over 6,400 toy guns sold from 2012 to 2014 violated New York laws; most of those were sold online. Schneiderman said there have been 63 shootings in New York since 1994 as a result of someone holding a toy weapon.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nThe Oneonta Common Council will hold their next meeting this evening. The meeting will get underway at 7:00 PM this evening in the 2nd floor chambers in city hall.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\nCertified child safety seat technicians will conduct free child safety sat checks in Oneonta this afternoon. The event will beheld from 3:00 to 6:00 PM in the parking lot at Home Depot on State Route 28. More information is available at 547-4230.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Cuomo will be in Broome County this morning, at 10:45 he will make an announcement at the Kirkwood Industrial Park West. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;- The Republican committees in the 52 State Senate District have announced that Broome County Under sheriff Fred &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/a-m-news-tuesday-8-4-15\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,5984,5947,5803,89,41,72,717,5684,46,6061,6062,20,5985,290,356,6059],"class_list":["post-4401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-afton","tag-amazon","tag-barbara-fiala","tag-broome-county-undersheriff-fred-akshar","tag-coventry","tag-governor-cuomo","tag-greene","tag-harpursville","tag-home-depot","tag-kirkwood","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-oneonta","tag-sears","tag-state-attorney-general-eric-schneiderman","tag-tom-libous","tag-wcdo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Announcer-Guy-Icon-Head.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4402,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions\/4402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wcdoonline.com\/localnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}