Cattaraugus County News

"If something seems too good to be true, it probably is." Those words from Cattaraugus County Sheriff Dennis John about an ad appearing in the Salamanca Press.

An Olean man named in a grand jury indictment charging him with attempted murder and assault will be arraigned July 14 in Cattaraugus County Court.

A southern tier woman is accused of working with her mother and another man to scam the Seneca Allegany Casino.

Nine young people from several Buffalo suburbs, ranging in age from 17 to 20, were plucked via helicopter from a section of the Zoar Valley Gorge early Monday morning.

Three Salamanca residents, including a female employee of the Seneca Allegany Casino who allegedly gave her mother hundreds of stolen dollars to gamble, were arrested in a scheme to steal money from the casino, ...

When Erie County Sheriff's Capt. Kevin Caffery landed his helicopter near a group of stranded hikers early Monday, his first passengers out of Zoar Valley weren't people.

The boys, aged 14 and 16, are accused of burglarizing a garage and shed on two separate Hinsdale properties.

A Cattaraugus County man, who worked for the State Department of State for just nine weeks, was killed Tuesday morning when the van he was driving crashed head on into a truck on Saw Mill River Road in ...

A retired State Police investigator Friday pleaded not guilty to vehicular manslaughter in the head-on crash on Route 219 on April 26 that claimed the life of a Bradford, Pa., woman.

A rescue effort is under way to remove a group of hikers who spent the night stranded on a ledge in a western New York gorge.

Several wanted felons in the area were swept up this week during Operation Falcon, a cooperative effort between state, local and federal law enforcement officers.

The attorney for David O'brien, 68, says he will be in a Cattaraugus County Court at 2:00 p.m., Friday, to face charges related to a deadly accident that claimed the life of a Pennsylvania woman.

A woman from a Cattaraugus County family has made military history. Ann Dunwoody, who spent part of her childhood in Randolph, has been nominated by the President to be the country's first female four-star ...

'You'll have six people at the bar, and four of them will start talking and they all go to the casino.

The National Weather Service has issued a Severe Thunderstorm WATCH for Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Wyoming and Allegany counties until 10:00 p.m. Sunday.

Charges could be filed by Friday against Casey A. Comes, 20, of Cuba, and against one or all of his three passengers, who were in his vehicle at about 10:30 p. m. Sunday when he drove his car at a high speed ...

Four people were injured late Sunday when a 20-year-old Cuba man who was racing at the Cattaraugus County-Olean Airport drove off the end of the runway into an embankment and flipped his car, the Cattaraugus ...

Cattaraugus County will soon be the only New York location and one of only 15 rural centers nationwide providing the frail elderly a range of services under the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly, or ...

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Edward H. Lehner on Wednesday gave the state Legislature and Gov.

A state judge has ordered the governor, Senate and Assembly to raise the pay of all the state's judges within the next 90 days.