BINGHAMTON, N.Y. (AP) - An upstate town justice is being charged with second-degree menacing after police say she held a knife to her husband's throat.

Town of Maine Justice Nicole Post told police that on December 21st, she found the wood stove was out and her house was cold then got into an argument with her husband over it. Her husband, Robert Post, claims his wife held a knife to his throat and told him she wanted to use it on him. She claims she had put the knife down.

Robert Post is charged with second-degree harassment.

A call to Nicole Post's office Wednesday was not immediately returned. She was elected in 2006 as one of the Broome County town's two justices.

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