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ALBANY (TNS) — An anti-cannabis coalition has filed a federal lawsuit against New York and the state Office of Cannabis Management, challenging the le...

DEWITT — A sheriff’s deputy investigating a burglary in Upstate New York Wednesday fatally shot two teenagers who were in a vehicle he thought was abo...

LAKEWOOD (TNS) — A Jamestown man has been arrested while standing naked in public with his face painted like a Batman villain, according to police. WI...

SMETHPORT, Pa . — A Smethport man is in McKean County Jail for mutiple felony counts alleging the repeated sexual assault of a child. Robert Allen Tan...

COUDERSPORT, Pa. — A Coudersport man has been charged for allegedly shooting a gun outside Vinny’s Bar & Grill on Aug. 17. Richard J. Hurst, 57, is ch...

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ALBANY — State police and local law enforcement will be out in force through Labor Day weekend to crack down on impaired and reckless driving. The enf...

LITTLE VALLEY — The state Board of Elections said Friday that fake boards of elections staffers have reportedly gone door-to-door to question voters i...

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SMETHPORT — A Smethport man is in McKean County Jail, held without bail, for allegedly threatening to shoot a police officer who stopped him for drivi...

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Rep. Nick Lagworthy, who attended last week’s Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee, said Monday he saw no clear winner in the first GOP candida...

ITHACA (TNS) — An Ithaca man who had been missing for 100 days has been found dead, and 10 people have been arrested in connection with his kidnapping...

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It’s not entirely clear that the Embraer Legacy 600 jet that crashed near the village of Kuzhenkino in Russia’s Tver region Wednesday carried Yevgeny ...

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SYRACUSE — A New York man will serve three months in prison for making threatening phone calls to Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of G...