News, NY State News
Dec 08, 2020
SYRACUSE (TNS) — Upstate’s top federal judge has ordered all jury trials suspended until March — a full year after the coronavirus pandemic began. Chi...
Local News, News
Nov 30, 2020
From keeping an eye on a terrible disease to getting ready for holiday shopping, from fighting for airport funds to fixing up downtown, here’s a look ...
News, NY State News
Feb 14, 2020
ALBANY — Senate Democrats are on the hot seat after proposing changes to the state’s recently enacted bail reforms. Opponents of the tweaks are hammer...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Local News, ...
Dec 18, 2019
As Congress prepared for a daylong impeachment debate Wednesday, U.S. Rep. Tom Reed, R-Corning predicts the party line vote at which Democrats would p...
Western New York
Sep 13, 2019
Western New York Congressman Chris Collins said Thursday he had not decided whether to run for reelection — shortly after a judge vowed he would face ...
Columnists, Local Sports, Olean, ...
Jul 21, 2019
Roughly 25 years after Kane High School’s Amy Rudolph qualified for the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta in the 5,000-meter run, another KHS alumna is set to ...
Western New York
May 03, 2019
SYRACUSE — A contractor from Western New York was sentenced today for defrauding the New York State Department of Transportation on federally funded c...
Commentary, Local Columnists, New York
Jan 10, 2019
I read sad news of the death of Hamilton Ward IV, the son of one of the most talented and esteemed jurists Western New York has ever known, the Hon. H...
Western New York
Dec 14, 2018
ROCHESTER (AP) — A judge has denied a request to dismiss a felony weapons charge against a former upstate New York judge. The Democrat and Chronicle o...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Aug 15, 2018
LITTLE VALLEY — Edward J. Smith Jr. has been found competent to stand trial for the murder of his wife, but whether a trial will actually happen is st...
News, Western New York
Jun 18, 2018
NEW YORK (AP) — A former president of the State University of New York's Polytechnic Institute was alternately portrayed as a hero or a scoundrel at t...
Commentary, Local Columnists
Apr 30, 2018
“We are born of love; love is our mother.” — Rumi, poet, 13th century “Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.” — Robert Browning, poet, 19th cent...
Local News, News
Apr 03, 2018
It seems like there is no end to the scams that cyber- and tele-criminals attempt to use on residents in the area. We read or hear about them almost w...
Cattaraugus County, Local News, News
Mar 17, 2018
LITTLE VALLEY — A man convicted of raping a woman in his Olean House apartment will be sentenced Monday in Cattaraugus County Court. Francis O’Donnell...
Allegany County News, Cattaraugus County, Crime, ...
Jan 18, 2018
LITTLE VALLEY — Francis O’Donnell’s kidnapping and rape trial continues to experience delays with officials offering little to no explanation. Proceed...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Jan 17, 2018
LITTLE VALLEY — The trial of Francis O’Donnell was once again adjourned Tuesday, as jurors were sent home without hearing testimony for the second tim...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Jan 12, 2018
LITTLE VALLEY — Francis O’Donnell’s second day of a kidnapping and rape trial in Cattaraugus County Court never got off the ground, possibly due to hi...
Cattaraugus County, Crime, Local News, ...
Dec 05, 2017
LITTLE VALLEY — The trial for an Olean man accused of sexually assaulting a woman while holding her captive in his Olean House apartment has been dela...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
David W. Leaskey SALAMANCA --- David W. Leaskey, 72, of Salamanca, NY, died Monday, June 9, 2025 at Olean General Hospital following a short illness. ...
June 16, 2025
Ruth M. Baillargeon, mother, grandmother, sister BELFAST --- Ruth M. Baillargeon, 82, of Belfast, New York, passed away Monday, June 16, 2025 at High...
June 16, 2025
Robert E. Stephens PORTVILLE === Robert E. Stephens of 24 Finch Street, passed away on Friday, June 13, 2025 at the Cuba Memorial Skilled Nursing Faci...
Commentary, Opinion
June 16, 2025
Sometimes I feel like a broken record when I talk about what’s happening in Albany — but the failures keep repeating. This year was no different. Whil...
