An appeals court has vacated the 2020 sentence of a former Jamestown man who was convicted of first-degree rape and first-degree criminal sex acts. Dennis Park, 39, was sentenced to 18 years in prison in March 2020 as part of an agreement between prosecutors and defense attorneys, though ...

A 20-year-old Brocton man is in Chautauqua County Jail after being charged in a shooting that took place over the summer in the city of Dunkirk. Around 6:40 p.m. Aug. 14, the Dunkirk Police Department began investigating the report of a shooting incident that occurred in the 300 block of ...

SILVER CREEK — A group of residents showed up to a recent Silver Creek Village Board meeting with a simple request of one of their neighbors: put down the leaf blower. Peter Pike, Sandy Pike and Tammy Wood are fed up with one neighbor who just will not leave the leaves alone. “We have an ...

The past four years have been boom times for companies trying to capitalize on the transition away from diesel engines - including Cummins Inc. and NFI Group, owner of the New Flyer plant in Jamestown. It raised eyebrows among investor analysts how President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign ...

For the past three years, the Town of Dunkirk has been trying to secure grant funding from New York State to support a capital improvement project to the Shorewood Water District. Each of the past two years, the Town swung and missed. Down to its final strike, the Town took one more swing at ...

Dunkirk High School’s Paul Trippy is one of only a few dozen students across the country to receive a Legion of Valor Bronze Cross of Achievement for his Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps service. The Dunkirk school district announced the 12th-grader’s award last week at a Board of ...