Police

State Police at Oneonta arrested Kathleen Duncan, 42 of Otego, Wednesday on a charge of felony assault.

State Police at Binghamton investigated an industrial accident Monday morning in which a Pa. man was fatally electrocuted while conducting elevated train bridge measurements in the Town of Colesville.

After responding to a burglary in progress at Hogan’s General Store in the Village of Andes, police arrested a 16-year-old male from Margaretville and a 14-year-old male from Andes for one count of 3rd degree burglary and one count of attempted petit larceny.

A three-hour standoff in Cortlandville ended peacefully with the arrest of John K. Downes, 55 of Watertown, on Saturday evening. State Police received a complaint of an armed man menacing another man around 6 p.m. on Saturday. Police responded to the residence, where they found only Downes inside.

Alexander Vega, 22, of the Bronx, was arrested for allegedly selling heroin in August and September 2011 in the city of Oneonta. The arrest comes as a result of Operation Dial Tone, which is a joint narcotics investigation into the heroin distribution from the Bronx into Otsego County.

Today in music history, June 28,  we go back to to 1997, when Puff Daddy and Faith Evans started a three week run at number one on the U.K. singles chart with "I'll Be Missing You".  The single went number one in the U.S. June 14 that year and stayed on top for eleven weeks.  The single was in memory of rap artist, NOTORIOUS B.I.G., who was murdered  March 9, that same year.

Michael J. Degnan, the 38-year-old man who police sought last week in connection with forcible rape of a 14-year-old female, has been arrested and charged with rape in the first degree.

State Police are investigating a robbery that happened in the village of Afton early Thursday morning at the Xtra Mart on Main Street.

New York State Police, the Vestal Policed Department and the Endicott Police Department arrested a Binghamton man Wednesday following a two-month drug investigation.

State Police in Binghamton are attempting to locate 38-year-old Michael Degnan, who is wanted for 1st degree Rape in reference to the alleged forcible rape of a 14-year-old female in the Port Crane area on June 8th.