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FRANKLINVILLE – Jamestown attorney Eddie Sundquist captured his second Democratic county committee endorsement in eight days on Saturday. Sundquist wa...

Cattaraugus County Sheriff Timothy Whitcomb thinks it’s a mistake to look into legalizing recreational marijuana as Gov. Andrew Cuomo recommended on J...

COLDSPRING — The Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office is searching for an Ohio man who allegedly abandoned nearly a dozen cows on his Coldspring proper...

ASHFORD — Eighty-five pigs, many severely emaciated, were seized this week from two unheated barns on Folts Road in Ashford. The Cattaraugus County Sh...

It’s been five years since sweeping gun law changes were approved, but local officials still hope that changes will come. The Secure Ammunition and Fi...

LITTLE VALLEY — With just over two weeks before the Jan. 31 deadline, about one-third of the pistol permit holders in Cattaraugus County have recertif...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Town Board and children of Michael and Donna Phillips have approved the design of a plaque that will be hung in the Salamanc...

BUFFALO — A Buffalo man accused of shooting and killing a Kill Buck man during a 2012 home invasion will face prosecution at the federal level. The U....

LITTLE VALLEY — Already facing a manslaughter charge after a single-vehicle crash killed one of his passengers this November, a Salamanca man has now ...

LITTLE VALLEY — “It’s a nightmare situation.” Those are the words Cattaraugus County Clerk Alan Bernstein used Wednesday to describe the state’s effor...

BUFFALO — A Dunkirk woman pleaded guilty Friday to a federal conspiracy charge in connection to a scheme to defraud hundreds. The U.S. Attorney’s Offi...

SALAMANCA — Kevin L. Donaldson Jr. was slated to return Monday night to the same place he is accused of driving drunk and killing the Salamanca town s...

Throughout history people have thought up creative reasons to explain what we had no hard facts to define. In this enlightened age, it is curious to m...

SALAMANCA — A Cattaraugus man is facing vehicular manslaughter charges following a Cattaraugus County Sheriff’s Office probe into an accident that kil...

ALBANY — State Sen. Catharine Young, R-Olean, announced Friday she is pursuing stronger sexual harassment laws that would make allegations harder to h...

LITTLE VALLEY — Cattaraugus County District Attorney Lori Rieman made it official Friday she will not press charges against corrections officers in th...

SALAMANCA — The Salamanca Recreation Commission on Tuesday accepted and approved the lone submitted bid — that of the family of Mayor Michael Smith — ...

LITTLE VALLEY — Three former industrial sites in Cattaraugus County, where property taxes have not been paid in years, are part of a new program aimed...