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SYRACUSE (TNS) — Upstate’s top federal judge has ordered all jury trials suspended until March — a full year after the coronavirus pandemic began. Chi...

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 ...

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...

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 Congressman Chris Collins said Thursday he had not decided whether to run for reelection — shortly after a judge vowed he would face ...

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 ...

SYRACUSE — A contractor from Western New York was sentenced today for defrauding the New York State Department of Transportation on federally funded c...

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...

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...

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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...

LITTLE VALLEY — Francis O’Donnell’s kidnapping and rape trial continues to experience delays with officials offering little to no explanation. Proceed...

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...

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...

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...