Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News
Feb 04, 2020
LITTLE VALLEY — A Salamanca man faces two to four years in state prison for violating a court order. Yancy Dowdy, 32, was sentenced last week by Count...
News, Olean
Jan 31, 2020
LITTLE VALLEY — An Olean man presently incarcerated in the Cattaraugus County Jail was sentenced to one year in the county jail for his conviction of ...
News, Western New York
Jan 02, 2020
Retired Erie, Pa., Catholic Bishop Donald W. Trautman has been named as a defendant in a lawsuit that claims he covered up clergy sexual abuse when he...
News, Olean
Dec 18, 2019
LITTLE VALLEY — A Salamanca man was sentenced on Monday to three years in state prison by Cattaraugus County Court Judge Ronald Ploetz. Ploetz sentenc...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News
Dec 10, 2019
LITTLE VALLEY — An Olean man has been sentenced in Cattaraugus County Court as a predicate felon to three years in state prison plus three years of po...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, News
Dec 10, 2019
LITTLE VALLEY — The defendants in the 22-year-old case involving the murder of William Chase IV appeared in Cattaraugus County Court Monday with their...
Crime, Local News, News
Nov 26, 2019
CLIFTON PARK — Calling New York’s upcoming bail reforms a “criminal Bill of Rights,” Republican state Sen. James Tedisco proposed a law Monday with De...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Nov 25, 2019
Bail reform is coming to New York state on Jan. 1 and there is a great deal of misinformation and alarmist hype being circulated on this issue. Contra...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Nov 23, 2019
LITTLE VALLEY — Law enforcement groups across New York state are warning the public about their concerns over the end of cash bail for misdemeanors an...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Nov 19, 2019
LITTLE VALLEY — A Kennedy man incarcerated in the Cattaraugus County Jail was sentenced in County Court to a term of four years in state prison and th...
News, Olean
Oct 12, 2019
LITTLE VALLEY — An Olean man who pleaded guilty to drug-related charges in Cattaraugus County Court Monday faces sentencing Dec. 2. Brandon Blackshear...
Allegany County News, Crime, Local News, ...
Sep 27, 2019
A Cuba woman working as a medical secretary in Olean was caught up in a massive federal health care fraud case for allegedly issuing bogus prescriptio...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Sep 06, 2019
LITTLE VALLEY — A Salamanca woman tampered with evidence stemming from her assisting a murder suspect after a December stabbing death in Salamanca, in...
News, NY State News, Western New York
Apr 17, 2019
A Buffalo-area teacher has been arrested on child porn charges, the FBI announced Tuesday. The Buffalo News reports Steven Gasiorek, a 33-year-old res...
News, Western New York
Mar 28, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — New York on Thursday sued the billionaire family behind OxyContin, joining a growing list of state and local governments alleging the ...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Jan 30, 2019
BUFFALO — Three people arrested in last week’s raid on a Randolph apartment will officially face federal methamphetamine charges. The U.S. Attorney’s ...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Jan 11, 2019
LITTLE VALLEY — A woman whose Olean home was twice discovered to be housing a methamphetamine lab and kicked off a rash of meth lab discoveries in the...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Oct 11, 2018
OLEAN — Nine people were charged Wednesday morning for allegedly selling drugs like crack cocaine and methamphetamine to informants and undercover age...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Growing up, my family was destitute. If not for food stamps, we would have had little food — even so, there were times when our refrigerator was empty...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
LOS ANGELES (TNS) — President Donald Trump is enforcing immigration law, and for the first time in many decades immigration enforcement does not resem...
Local News, News
June 16, 2025
BELFAST — A newly constructed and reopened bridge on County Road 26 in the town of Belfast has been named the William “Bill” A. Nichols Bridge. Allega...
June 16, 2025
Donald L. Thierman, Sr. OLEAN --- Donald L. Thierman, Sr., 86, passed away peacefully Friday (June 13, 2025) at The Pines of Olean. Born August 14, 19...
