Leters to the Editor, Local Columnists
Oct 17, 2020
Few moments in life are as breathtaking as the birth of a child. Our moment came in 2008. Tiny, at only 5 1/2 pounds, our little girl arrived in early...
News, Western New York, World Sports
Sep 20, 2020
ROCHESTER (AP) — New York Attorney General Letitia James promised Sunday to expedite the release of body camera footage in cases of alleged police mis...
Crime, News, Western New York
Sep 10, 2020
ROCHESTER (AP) — A woman acknowledged she fatally stabbed her 7-year-old son and pleaded guilty by reason of mental disease or defect at a New York su...
News, NY State News, Western New York
Sep 10, 2020
(TNS) A teacher and assistant principal in Upstate New York has been placed on leave after yelling “f--- the police” at a Rochester protest. The New Y...
News, NY State News, Western New York
Sep 04, 2020
ROCHESTER — The police officers involved in the suffocation death of Daniel Prude were following their training when they put a hood over his head and...
Crime, Western New York
Aug 16, 2020
ROCHESTER (AP) — Four men and a woman were wounded in a late-night shooting in Rochester, police said. Officers responding to reports of shots fired a...
Local News, Western New York
Jul 19, 2020
ROCHESTER (TNS ) — A Rochester man was rushed to the hospital after falling into a gorge near Driving Park Bridge on Sunday. The Rochester Police and ...
News, Western New York
Jul 06, 2020
ROCHESTER — On the same weekend in which Frederick Douglass 168 years ago gave his “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July,” a statue honoring the fa...
Local News, Western New York
Jul 02, 2020
ROCHESTER (TNS ) — Gov. Cuomo ordered State Police on Thursday to launch a hate crimes investigation into the “cowards” who spray-painted swastikas an...
Crime, Western New York
Jun 08, 2020
ROCHESTER (AP) — A Rochester-area man pleaded guilty Monday to leaving voicemail death threats for U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer and Rep. Adam Schiff beca...
Allegany County News, Local News
Apr 11, 2020
ROCHESTER — Nazareth College recently inducted its sixth class into the College’s chapter of Phi Kappa Phi-the nation’s oldest and most selective all-...
Coronavirus, News
Mar 18, 2020
The first person to die from novel coronavirus in Upstate New York was a Rochester hospital worker, according to a new report from the Democrat & Chro...
Basketball, College Sports, Columnists, ...
Jan 15, 2020
ROCHESTER — The question was initially posed on a St. Bonaventure basketball backer Twitter account. Which was the more exciting Bona game inside Blue...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News, ...
Dec 02, 2019
Communities across Cattaraugus County were blanketed in a soft covering of snow Sunday night and the snow continued to fall gently down Monday. The to...
Nov 18, 2019
Mary Kathryn Hesse Sirianni OLEAN — Mary Kathryn Hesse Sirianni, 63, of 414 Fifth Ave., passed away Friday (Nov. 15, 2019) at Strong Memorial Hospital...
Local News, News, Western New York
Sep 18, 2019
ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University has announced the appointment of four new members to its Board of Trustees. Luke H. Brown, of McLean, Vir...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Apr 17, 2019
On April 3, Olean Police and Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office emergency and special response team members, including a K-9 unit, surrounded a house...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Apr 04, 2019
OLEAN — A search of a North Eighth Street home for crack cocaine and heroin has led to the arrest of five people from Buffalo and Rochester, which aut...
Local News, News
June 14, 2025
OLEAN — The first protest Nevin Oliphant took part in was in 1967 in Los Angeles. He was a young teenager protesting the Vietnam War. In 2025 his caus...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Cathy Briggs, memorial service OLEAN — A memorial service for Cathy Briggs will be held Thursday (June 19, 2025) at Guenther Funeral Home, 1303 E. Sta...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
William S. Clemens ALLEGANY — William S. “Bill” Clemens, 74, of Allegany, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at Mercy Hospital in Buffalo, surround...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
John R. Cornwall, loving husband, father and brother FREEDOM — John R. Cornwall, 75, of Freedom, passed away Wednesday (June 11, 2025) at his home, su...
Obituaries
June 14, 2025
Dennis L. Holliday, loving husband, father and grandfather LIMESTONE — Dennis L. Holliday, of Nichols Run Road, passed away Tuesday (June 10, 2025). D...
