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MOUNT VERNON (TNS) — A Westchester County teenager has admitted to fatally stabbing a rival cheerleader after a parade last spring. The Journal News r...

BELMONT — Justin A. Freeman of Hume was convicted of one count of attempted menacing a police officer, a class E felony, and sentenced to five years o...

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

SYRACUSE — There will be a state fair this year with thousands of maskless people streaming into the fairgrounds. Crowds are getting welcomed back to ...

ALBANY — The U.S. Department of Justice expects to spend years investigating fraud cases involving billions of dollars in aid that was intended to hel...

BUFFALO — U.S. Attorney James P. Kennedy Jr. reported that Emmanuel Humphrey, 33, of Atlanta — formerly of Buffalo — pleaded guilty to conspiring to p...

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

A lawsuit filed Monday accuses Rochester officials of allowing a culture of police brutality against racial minorities to fester and asks a court to f...

BELMONT — A little more than a year after the brutal death of a Wellsville man by a host of assailants, two men face years in state prison for the inc...

BUFFALO — Buffalo protester Martin Gugino is suing the city, its police department, and its mayor after charges were dropped against two cops who shov...

BELMONT — Five of eight people accused in the brutal beating death of a Wellsville man in March will be sentenced in March for their roles in the homi...

BUFFALO (AP) — A man who was arrested during a traffic stop over the summer is suing the city of Buffalo and its police department, alleging that offi...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Court officials are offering further explanation of comments made in McKean County Court regarding the use of force in a recent crimin...

RANDOLPH — Federal prosecutors have levied charges against a Randolph man for allegedly producing child pornography in Jamestown. U.S. Attorney James ...

BUFFALO — Two Randolph residents were among 10 defendants to plead guilty in what federal law enforcement officials call a major methamphetamine ring ...

ALBANY (AP) — The hottest controversy at the statehouse for the first two months of the year — the fight over how much leeway judges should have to lo...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County Court Judge Ronald D. Ploetz will conduct County Court via Skype for Business, beginning Monday. The videoconferenc...

LITTLE VALLEY — An Olean man was sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court Monday as a predicate felon to three years in state prison. Dwayne Higgs, 39, c...