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Police reports 2/16/24: DEC frees skunk from trap in Otto

Feb 16, 2024

OTTO — A skunk left in a live trap was freed by a New York Department of Environmental Conservation officer, who managed the feat without being spraye...

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Times Square migrants at center of latest NY bail debate

JOSHUA SOLOMON Times Union, Albany

Feb 15, 2024

ALBANY (TNS) — The alleged assault of two New York City police officers by a group of migrants last month has revived a debate at the state Capitol ab...

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Hearing set in Potter County death penalty case

Marcie Schellhammer marcie@bradfordera.com

Feb 15, 2024

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — A hearing has been scheduled for June in Potter County Court on the 2021 pretrial motion of Kyle Moore, accused with two others of ...

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Feb 15, 2024

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Hochul details plan to fight rising incidents of retail theft in NY

Olean Times Herald staff

Feb 14, 2024

New York's governor highlighted her plans to fight retail theft, as larceny offenses continue to rise, especially in New York City. Gov. Kathy Hochul ...

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Convicted WNY killer freed on technicality: He was held in wrong prison

Feb 14, 2024

ROCHESTER (AP) — A man convicted for a 2015 killing in Western New York has been freed and his indictment has been dismissed solely because he was hel...

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Feb 14, 2024

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Feb 13, 2024

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Feb 10, 2024

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Feb 09, 2024

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7 indicted in migrant-NYPD brawl; DA denies reported out-of-state busts

MOLLY CRANE-NEWMAN New York Daily News

Feb 09, 2024

NEW YORK (TNS) — Seven people have been indicted in connection to the Times Square melee between a group of migrants and NYPD officers, Manhattan Dist...

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Police reports 2/8/24

Feb 08, 2024

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40 years since Olean woman’s disappearance

RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald

Feb 07, 2024

OLEAN — Wednesday marked 40 years since the disappearance of Josephine Cottone Despard of Olean. Then 26, Josephine, or Josie, as she was often called...

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Cattaraugus County Court: Buffalo man gets prison for Yorkshire burglary

RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald

Feb 07, 2024

LITTLE VALLEY — A Buffalo man, James Kenner, 20, was sentenced as a predicate felon in Cattaraugus County Court Monday to 1½ to three years in state p...

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70 arrests highlight corruption in NYC’s public housing authority

LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press

Feb 06, 2024

NEW YORK — The largest public housing authority in the nation was infested by a “classic pay-to-play” culture of corruption where workers dispensed re...

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Feb 06, 2024

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Defense seeks dismissal of case stemming from triple-fatal crash in Freedom

RICK MILLER Olean Times Herald

Feb 05, 2024

LITTLE VALLEY — Motions were heard in Cattaraugus County Court Monday in the triple-murder case against a Freedom man accused of deliberately ramming ...