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

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...

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...

KINGSTON (AP) — An 85-year-old former doctor from Arizona was charged with manslaughter for his role in the suicide of a woman in an upstate New York ...

U.S. tax dollars shouldn’t subsidize groups that employ terrorists. Yet the Biden administration hasn’t been able to clear that low bar. Late last mon...

WASHINGTON (TNS) — The recent U.S. airstrikes against Iran-backed militias were the largest President Jordan Biden has ordered since he took office, a...

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SMETHPORT, Pa. — A Shinglehouse man was arraigned Monday on allegations that he had broken into a garage in Annin Township, living there until he was ...

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

ALBANY (AP) — A federal judge has rejected a challenge to New York state’s licensing program for selling legal marijuana, a system two California appl...

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NEW YORK (TNS) — A Manhattan grand jury will hear evidence about migrants’ attacks on a group of NYPD officers outside a Times Square migrant shelter,...

BRADFORD, Pa. — An Eldred woman was arraigned Friday before District Judge Rich Luther for allegedly failing to return a rental car. Rebecca Hakes, 50...

SALAMANCA — A local group is on a mission to rid the city of Salamanca of the drugs that are claiming the lives of their loved ones. Seneca & Salamanc...

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BUFFALO (AP) — The federal death penalty trial for a white supremacist who killed 10 Black people at a Buffalo supermarket likely won’t start for at l...

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It was sure to happen that American troops in the Mideast would be killed by assaults from Iranian terror proxies and now it’s happened, with three U....