criminal law

BUFFALO — A 35-year-old Delevan man is charged with distribution and possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney for Western New York reported ...

NEW YORK — Former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver has been released from a federal prison on furlough while he awaits potential placement to ...

A 19-year-old college student from Olean faces a felony involuntary manslaughter charge stemming from an alcohol-related fraternity hazing death in Oh...

Sexual Assault Awareness Month, observed each April, is a campaign that aims to increase awareness about the causes and risk factors for sexual assaul...

Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office New York State Police — A one-vehi — Andre A. Harvin, 27, of Olean, was charged at 12:25 a.m. Wednesday with drivi...

Olean Police Wellsville Police Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office New York State Police — A one-vehicle accident was reported at 5:36 a.m. Tuesday on...

Protesters in Minneapolis, and, for that matter, throughout the country and across the seas, signaled through shouting, jumping, carrying signs and in...

From a rusty dime solving a burglary case to giving up community dinners to help famine victims, from enjoying the area’s sweet, sticky goodness to di...

NEW YORK — The Derek Chauvin jury voted with their eyes. The infamous video of Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer, kneeling on the neck of...

ROCHESTER (AP) — A 16-year-old boy was charged with second-degree murder in the fatal attempted carjacking of a 71-year-old man near Rochester this mo...

YORKSHIRE — A Hamburg man faces multiple charges after leading law enforcement on a pursuit through three counties, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s O...

BELMONT — The third of eight accused in the brutal death of Nicholas Burdge has been sentenced to state prison. Brandon Poehmel, 22, of Wellsville, wa...

MINNEAPOLIS — Relief, even if fleeting and momentary, is a feeling that Black Americans have rarely known in America: From slavery to Jim Crow segrega...

OLEAN — City police have a suspect in the March slaying of Alexis Figueroa Torres on South Third Street. Capt. Robert Blovsky, who is in charge of the...

OLEAN — Jamel R. Burney Sr. was working Tuesday afternoon as word came out that the Hennepin County jury in Minnesota had reached a verdict in the mur...

Olean Police Wellsville Police Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office New York State Police — A one-vehicle accident was reported at 9:08 p.m. Monday on ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Former Minneapolis Officer Derek Chauvin was convicted Tuesday of murder and manslaughter for pinning George Floyd to the pavement with ...

New York state officials and the mayor of Olean reacted Tuesday evening to jury verdicts that found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin gu...