security and public safety

EAST PALESTINE, Ohio — Donald Trump on Wednesday criticized the federal response to the toxic train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, as a “betrayal...

SCHENECTADY (AP) — A former Schenectady jail guard who beat and seriously injured a detainee has been sentenced to six months behind bars, to the dism...

ALLEGANY — It’s back! The Allegany Old Home Days carnival will be on this year. After two years of no Old Home Days celebration in 2020 and 2021 due t...

PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — It’s not an anniversary anyone wants to celebrate. Feb. 24 will mark one year since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine — an act that ch...

SALAMANCA — Khristopher M. Ellis, 32, of Salamanca, was charged at 7 p.m. Thursday with fifth-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance wit...

U.S. Border Patrol agents in the Swanton Sector, which includes all of New York and Vermont, continue to apprehend and report record numbers of foreig...

ALBANY (TNS) — Survivors of violent crimes stood side-by-side with former inmates at the Capitol to push again for an overhaul of the state’s parole s...

NEW YORK — A man who went on a deadly rampage with a U-Haul truck Monday in New York City was suffering from an apparent mental health crisis and said...

NIAGARA FALLS (TNS) — A woman is dead and her 5-year-old child was seriously injured after an incident in theNew York State ParkMonday afternoon. Stat...

NEW YORK — A man driving a U-Haul truck swerved onto sidewalks and plowed into scooter riders in New York City on Monday, injuring multiple people bef...

From my perspective — speaking only for myself, and not as a member of my race, gender or ethnic origin — Washington Post columnist Karen Attiah had i...

Sanctuary cities are easy to declare but harder to pay for. Take New York City. It has long attracted immigrants, both legal and illegal. But the late...

SALAMANCA — Two Buffalo residents face several felony charges after a reported burglary of a cannabis dispensary and wild chase early Thursday on U.S....

BUFFALO — A 58-year-old Olean man on federal probation for bank fraud and tax evasion faces sentencing in June for lying to a probation officer. Josep...

BELMONT — A Belmont man is facing state prison time after being convicted of stealing a safe from a convenience store. Cody A. Hogue of Belmont was co...

ALBANY (TNS) — The “tweaks” to the state’s bail laws that Gov. Kathy Hochul is asking the Democrat-controlled Legislature to consider are facing two i...

The two most common themes of MAGA sorehead emails I received last year were the inevitability of an anti-Biden landslide in 2022, and the certainty o...

BELMONT — A town of Genesee man was sent to prison for 18 years on attempted murder and other charges relating to a stabbing incident in August. Shawn...