weaponry

Hunters in Cattaraugus County took 47 black bears in 2020, five fewer than the year before, according to a state Department of Environmental Conservat...

ROCHESTER (AP) — A Rochester man has been charged with setting off explosives in another man's yard and sending letters to neighbors warning that he p...

Misogyny and racism often are fellow-travelers. So it’s likely that more than coincidence is at play regarding mass murderer Robert Aaron Long, 21, an...

New York State Police in the Adirondacks admitted this week their agency lost a AR-15 semiautomatic rifle, which they had asked the public for help in...

Editor’s note: Thirty years ago, Arthur G. Austin Jr., of Cuba, was a U.S. Army Military Police captain at the time of the Gulf War, assigned to the 2...

ROCHESTER (AP) — A man was shot and killed by a police officer in Rochester early Wednesday after he threatened officers with a knife, authorities sai...

WASHINGTON — U.S. senators Kirsten Gillibrand and Charles Schumer of New York joined Senate Democrats Friday in introducing two bills to strengthen an...

LIBERTY — An Upstate New York man has died in an explosion while making a bomb for his child’s gender reveal party. New York State Police said they re...

Pointing to a growing interest in hunting, New York state is expanding the deer hunting season in the Southern Zone with a “Holiday Deer Hunt.” The De...

PORTVILLE – The local Winter Travel League of trapshooters began its 31st season last Sunday at the Portville Conservation Club. The 500-bird, five-cl...

JAMESTOWN — New York State environmental conservation officers partnered with Ellicott Town Police on Dec. 12 to arrest two men on numerous violations...

BUFFALO (AP) — A man who was arrested during a traffic stop over the summer is suing the city of Buffalo and its police department, alleging that offi...

BYRAM, N.J. (AP) — A Fort Drum soldier and a 16-year-old boy have been charged in the murder and kidnapping of a 20-year-old soldier found buried unde...

BRADFORD, Pa. — Bradford City Police are investigating a shooting that was reported Tuesday. The shooting victim was transported by ambulance to the h...

NEW YORK (AP) — The parents of a police officer whose bulletproof vest saved his life when he responded to a domestic dispute in Brooklyn called it a ...

HONOLULU (AP) — Navy sailor Mickey Ganitch was getting ready to play in a Pearl Harbor football game as the sun came up on Dec. 7, 1941. Instead, he s...

Readers might have noted the passing last month of World War II veteran Joseph Leo of Cuba. He died Oct. 8 at the age of 94 — he would have turned 95 ...

PENFIELD (AP) — A 67-year-old man was killed by an “accidental discharge of a firearm” at a Western New York gun club, authorities said. Deputies were...