criminal law

HERKIMER (TNS) — Benedict DiPiazza is up for parole. Again. DiPiazza is 77 years old and, though he was released briefly in 1999, has been in prison f...

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump has appealed a judge’s decision requiring he answer questions under oath in New York state’s civil investigat...

Democrats elsewhere may be fleeing the defund the police movement, but it lives on in Seattle. Business owners told the City Council last week what th...

SYRACUSE (TNS) — The way a lawsuit tells it, an illegal marijuana market made life difficult for the friars at a Catholic church on the city’s North S...

LITTLE VALLEY — A Chautauqua County teenager faces multiple charges in Cattaraugus County, including rape, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office rep...

BELMONT — The Allegany County District Attorney’s Office reported the following grand jury indictments were recorded Wednesday: Brian J. Learn of Boli...

NEW YORK — Former President Donald Trump must answer questions under oath in New York state’s civil investigation into his business practices , a judg...

BUFFALO — A former Vermont woman who fled the United States with her daughter in 2009 and lived as a fugitive in Nicaragua to avoid sharing custody wi...

State Sen. George Borrello, joined by prosecutors and law officers from across his 57th Senate District, called Friday for the restoration of judicial...

BELMONT — Allegany County District Attorney Keith Slep reported that Scott A. Knight of Wellsville, was sentenced Feb. 3 to three years probation by J...

PITTSBURGH (TNS) — A Vietnam veteran from McKean County who joined the pro-Trump rioters with a friend to storm the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to...

As New York Democrats propose cracking down on gun trafficking amid a crime wave, the area’s state senator has a different proposal. Sen. George Borre...

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...

Police abuse of power often involves not only the abuser but also those who enable the abuse through inaction and silence. They are virtually never pr...

ALBANY (TNS) — New York politicians uniformly and swiftly offered condolences following the death of a New York Police Department officer in a shootin...

ALBANY (TNS) — Former Gov.Andrew M. Cuomo'stop aides and his attorney are continuing a crusade to clear his name of sexual harassment allegations, cit...

OLEAN — The Olean Police Department reported Thursday that officers discovered suspected drugs and drug-related paraphernalia after conducting a searc...

The ever-increasing connectivity between phones and the complex infotainment systems in automobiles may be putting our civil liberties at risk. Techno...