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August 27, 2025
OLEAN — An Olean man has been sentenced to three to nine years in state prison for a 2023 hit-and-run incident on Seneca Avenue that resulted in a wom...
Crime, News, Western New York
Oct 10, 2024
BUFFALO — A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent in Buffalo, New York, was convicted of corruption Thursday following a second trial on c...
News, NY State News
Sep 27, 2024
NEW YORK — New York City Mayor Eric Adams pleaded not guilty Friday to federal bribery charges, firmly rejecting allegations that he accepted luxury t...
News, NY State News
Dec 05, 2022
NEW YORK — Bribery and fraud charges against former New York Lt. Gov. Brian Benjamin were tossed out Monday by a federal judge, leaving Benjamin to fa...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Apr 22, 2022
It looks like disgraced ex-Lt. Gov Brian Benjamin’s defense will resort to the “get out of jail free” card that worked for former New York Mayor Bill ...
Local Columnists, New York, Opinion
Jan 27, 2022
ALBANY (TNS) — Declining to speak ill of the dead is probably a good rule of thumb and, generally speaking, the honorable path. But different standard...
Crime, News, NY State News
Aug 27, 2020
ALBANY (TNS ) — A federal prison in Orange County is reuniting some once-notable New York political heavyweights. More than five years after being cha...
Local News, News
Aug 01, 2020
( Editor’s Note: Eliot Ness is well-known for being an integral part of taking down notorious gangster Al Capone back in the Prohibition era, as well ...
News, NY State News
Jul 20, 2020
NEW YORK — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver was sentenced Monday to 6 1/2 years in prison in the corruption case that drove him from po...
News
Jul 27, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — Sheldon Silver, the former New York Assembly speaker who brokered legislative deals for two decades before corruption charges abruptly...
News
Jul 17, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — A former New York state Senate leader and his son were convicted on Tuesday of extortion, wire fraud and bribery charges of pressuring...
News, Western New York
Sep 26, 2017
NEW YORK (AP) — Former New York state Senate leader Dean Skelos and his son were granted new trials Tuesday in their corruption case, with a federal a...
Local News, News
September 3, 2025
OLEAN — Efforts on several city projects are expected to finish this fall. DPW Director James Sprague told the city council’s finance committee on Tue...
Football, Local Sports, Sports
September 3, 2025
PORTVILLE — The task remains the same, even if some of the faces have changed, and not just due to graduation. Josh Brooks and the coaching staff at P...
September 3, 2025
ALLEGANY — Students in many school districts across New York state were up bright and early Tuesday morning for the first day of the 2025-26 school ye...
Local News, News
September 3, 2025
The Genesis House of Olean received some much-needed care last week thanks to a dedicated group of volunteers from St. Bonaventure University Ministri...
Local Sports, Sports
September 2, 2025
CUBA — The Cuba-Rushford/Hinsdale boys soccer team defeated Bolivar-Richburg, 3-0, in both teams’ first match of the season on Tuesday. The Rebels ben...
Local News, News
September 2, 2025
ELDRED, Pa. — More than 80 years ago, Dick Bondi decided to take a walk. It probably wasn't the best idea, he said. "It was pretty dumb," he told a re...
