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ALBANY — New York is reinstating restrictions on visits to hospitals, nursing homes and prisons in its coronavirus “red zones” as the state tries to r...

ALBANY (TNS ) — A federal prison in Orange County is reuniting some once-notable New York political heavyweights. More than five years after being cha...

This is an opposing view to the Tom Wrobleski column in the Dec. 31 edition of the Tims Herald, on his reasoning for warning against marijuana being l...

BELMONT — A Sardinia man was sentenced to three years in prison on a 2018 rape conviction. The Allegany County District Attorney’s Office reported tha...

LAFAYETTE TOWNSHIP, Pa. — When the Federal Correctional Institution at McKean opened its doors to staff and inmates 30 years ago this fall, the medium...

BRADFORD, Pa. — The Federal Correctional Institution at McKean in Lafayette Township was placed on “limited operational status” after a staff member w...

BELMONT — A Wellsville man, who has spent time in prison for making methamphetamine and fatally striking a girl with his car, is headed back to prison...

LEWIS RUN, Pa. — It was an evening of honoring longtime volunteers who included Albert Pivovarnik — who has served for close to two decades — during t...

With each criminal conviction the state of New York matter-of-factly tells the defendants how long they will spend behind bars. Hidden from view, in t...

The Catholic Church should do everything in its power to help send priests to jail for molesting children — these priests should never again see the l...

After last year’s election U.S. Rep. Tom Reed vowed to retire the “Extreme Ithaca Liberal” phrase from his lexicon. He has used the phrase over severa...

U.S. Rep. Tom Reed said Wednesday he expects an agreement to avoid a partial government shutdown on Friday — days before Christmas. Reed, a Corning Re...

GOWANDA — Following tours of two medium security correctional facilities in Western New York last week, state Sen. Catharine Young, R-Olean, expressed...

BUFFALO (AP) — A 46-year-old man has been sentenced for fatally shooting a Buffalo teenager in 1991 in a case that sent the wrong man to prison for ne...

(TNS) The tale told by incarceration statistics in the United States is staggering. The nation, with about 5 percent of the world’s population, has 21...

BUFFALO — An Olean accountant will spend more than two years in federal prison and pay back hundreds of thousands of dollars to both the Internal Reve...

Anyone who commits sexual abuse should go to jail, including Catholic priests. Of the 42 priests listed in March by the Buffalo Diocese as having been...

ROCHESTER (AP) — A Rochester woman who set a fire that killed four of her children in 2012 has been released from prison. The Democrat & Chronicle rep...