Kent News

A domestic dispute landed 30-year-old Joseph D. Sanderson, a convicted felon, in jail last October after Orleans County sheriff's deputies said they discovered a shotgun in his vehicle.

Police say the death of a man whose body was found floating in a Putnam County lake last week is not being considered suspicious.

County officials have established a set of guidelines county departments should use as they prepare their 2009 budget requests.

Putnam officials want to evaluate a county-owned piece of property in Kent, the site of a former hotel, to determine whether it could become home to a long-hoped-for senior center.

There are about 500 Siberian tigers in the wild today. The best guess for Randall Lineback cattle is around 200.

Police in Kent found the body of a missing Hartsdale man, Cary Sandberg, 54, floating face down in Lake Carmel Monday night.

Catherine M. Brown of Elmira received a bachelor's degree in childhood education.

The following earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest honor in Girl Scouting, after completing their projects.

The Orleans County Legislature established its first employee nepotism policy at its regular meeting Wednesday.

LAKE CARMEL - The water in the cove near where Kitchawan Road meets Lake Shore Drive East is beginning to look carpet-like and green.

Kevin Radovich hopes to be patrolling the roads of Lake Carmel and Kent with his prosthetic leg before the end of summer.

KENT - Route 52 was reopened at Towners Road 8 a.m. today after a collision with a tractor-trailer in Lake Carmel, police said.

Friends and colleagues of a Kent police officer who lost part of his left leg in a motorcycle accident last month have scheduled a benefit in his honor tomorrow at the Lake Carmel firehouse to help with his ...

By Terence Corcoran Gannett News Service CARMEL - A Lake Carmel merchant who told police he was robbed by four men who set his liquor store on fire and left him to die has financial troubles, according to ...

LAKE CARMEL - Kent police said it may take several days before they know more about a weekend liquor-store fire, which the owner says was set by robbers.

The owner of a liquor store that was destroyed by fire early Sunday morning says he was tied up and robbed by four men, who then poured gasoline on the floor and set it on fire.

LAKE CARMEL - A raging fire destroyed a long-established liquor store in Lake Carmel early this morning, gutting the business and prompting authorities to tear it down.

Greece Kevin Coughlin Jr., son of Kathy and Kevin Coughlin, and a graduate of Greece Athena High School, earned his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree from Michigan State University's College of Veterinary ... via Democrat & Chronicle

Pittsford David McLaughlin of Pittsford was awarded the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Student Excellence. via Democrat & Chronicle

“We need the Labor Department to stop causing bureaucratic hassles.”

ALBANY - An attempt by the state Labor Department to increase the number of Puerto Ricans working on New York farms is leaving some farms short of workers and could threaten this year's harvests, farm ... via Ithaca Journal