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UTICA (AP) — Six New York prison workers have been indicted for second-degree murder in the beating death of an inmate who was handcuffed, while four ...

U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is sponsoring legislation to raise the minimum age to purchase military-style semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity ammu...

SMETHPORT, Pa. — An Olean, N.Y., man pleaded guilty to and was sentenced for a firearms violation in McKean County Court. Ronald Billingsley, 36, was ...

ALLEN — Three Allegany County residents face multiple charges related to alleged animal abuse, the New York State Police reported Monday. Taylor M. Gr...

An authoritarian coup is happening in the United States. And “we the people” are the only ones who can stop it. We must preserve and restore our democ...

ALBANY — A Texas judge has ordered a New York doctor to pay more than $100,000 in penalties for prescribing abortion pills to a woman near Dallas, a r...

President Donald Trump has just started his second term, his last one permitted under the U.S. Constitution. But he's already started making quips abo...

With a new Republican presidential administration in place, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York Trini E. Ross has been preparing for he...

Logan O’Connell, attorney at law and an Olean native, was admitted to the New York State Bar in a ceremony on Jan. 15 at the Appellate Division, Fourt...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's newly installed attorney general, Pam Bondi, went after New York leaders Wednesday over the state's immigration ...

OLEAN — Twice the paving work is coming to two main corridors this construction season, but at roughly the same price. The Common Council approved cha...

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ELLICOTTVILLE — A Niagara County woman was arrested Sunday and charged in connection with a vehicle stolen in Amherst, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff'...

OLEAN —The African American Center for Cultural Development is hosting events to mark Black History Month. On Sunday at 2 p.m., the documentary "13th"...

MAYVILLE — Salman Rushdie was so stunned when a masked man started to stab him on a stage in western New York that the acclaimed author didn't even tr...

OLEAN — A Portville woman faces multiple charges related to alleged welfare fraud, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's Office reported Thursday. Shartish...

NEW YORK — Democrats in suburban New York are suing a Republican county executive over his creation of an armed unit of volunteer residents, saying it...

ALBANY — The death of a handcuffed man who was pummeled by New York prison guards was ruled a homicide in an autopsy report, lawyers for his family sa...