WATERTOWN — Ashlee Hibbitts went from forgetting her cellphone at Little Caesars to tracking it as it moved along a map of Watertown, not knowing it was heading to the home of the employee who allegedly stole it. Read More ⇒
MASSENA — U.S. Customs and Border Protection is reminding travelers that possessing and transporting marijuana over the international border remains illegal under federal law. Read More ⇒
WASHINGTON — Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell and two other allies of former President Donald Trump who promulgated election fraud claims about the 2020 presidential election and worked to delay or overturn the results are being subpoenaed by the House select committee examining the Jan. 6, 2021… Read More ⇒
Activists kicked off a new push Monday to increase wages for incarcerated New Yorkers and improve working conditions in the state’s prison system. Read More ⇒
LOWVILLE — Four felony charges have been levied against a Lyons Falls teen who was shot in the forearm by a state police trooper after he reportedly led officers on a high-speed chase, rammed the police vehicle and drove toward officers when they approached him on foot. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Devon D. Hutchins, 21, Watertown, was charged by city police on Sunday with second-degree contempt and endangering the welfare of a child. Read More ⇒
Jackie M. Hapeman, of Hermon, was charged by St. Lawrence County sheriff’s deputies Wednesday with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, and second-degree harassment, a violation, following an investigation into a domestic incident that occurred in the village of Hermon. Read More ⇒
Cuomo lawyer keeps up attack on AG James over sexual harassment report, calls outcome ‘premeditated’
ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo’s legal team once again assailed his accusers and the state attorney general over the bombshell sexual harassment report that led to the disgraced Democrat’s resignation. Read More ⇒
ROCHESTER — A 41-year-old Upstate New York man swindled roughly 1,000 victims out of more than $100 million in a nationwide Ponzi scheme. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — Ghislaine Maxwell, the British socialite convicted of enticing, grooming and sexually abusing underage girls with Jeffrey Epstein, is scheduled to be sentenced on June 28. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — A Carthage man was convicted Friday of 41 charges stemming from accusations that he sexually abused a child over a several years. Read More ⇒
OGDENSBURG — Three people are charged with allegedly hiding a missing Ogdensburg teenager who was located at a Jefferson Avenue home, according to city police. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Matthew A. Tousley, 41, of Emerson Street, was charged by city police with petit larceny. Read More ⇒
Oswego County Police Blotter for Jan. 14. Read More ⇒
CANTON – The St. Lawrence County Board of Legislators chair says the board will discuss how to address a legislator’s recent guilty plea to a driving while intoxicated charge. Read More ⇒
Gov. Gavin Newsom rejects parole for Sirhan Sirhan, convicted assassin of Robert F. Kennedy Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — Former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer wants a judge to throw out a Russian woman’s lawsuit accusing him of assaulting her at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel in 2016, according to newly unsealed documents. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — A Manhattan judge on Wednesday denied Prince Andrew’s bid to toss a sexual assault lawsuit brought by a woman who says the British royal slept with her when she was a teen sex trafficking victim of Jeffrey Epstein. Read More ⇒
LOS ANGELES — Two suspects accused of killing Memphis rapper Young Dolph have been arrested, police announced Tuesday afternoon. Read More ⇒
BURKE — A teenager was arrested and faces a felony arson charge after an early morning barn fire on East Road Wednesday. Read More ⇒
BOMBAY — A St. Lawrence County legislator pleaded guilty this week to a misdemeanor driving while intoxicated charge, stemming from a December motor vehicle crash in Bombay. Read More ⇒
DETROIT — Nearly three weeks before Ethan Crumbley allegedly shot up Oxford High School, he brought a bird’s head to school in a mason jar filled with yellow liquid and left it on top of a toilet paper dispenser in the boy’s bathroom, according to new claims in a lawsuit. Read More ⇒
WASHINGTON — Biden administration lawyers urged the Supreme Court on Tuesday to deny bond hearings and a chance to go free to immigrants who are being held for deportation after returning illegally to the United States. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Joleen R. Hambsch, 42, Watertown, was charged by city police on Tuesday with driving while intoxicated, aggravated driving while intoxicated, following too close, and driving while using a mobile phone. Read More ⇒
Robert Durst, who left behind a trail of corpses and the mystery of a body never found, died Monday of cardiac arrest at age 78. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — A Queens man has been arrested for making numerous threats to kill former President Donald Trump, federal investigators said Monday. Read More ⇒
LOS ANGELES — A man who police say shot into a crowd at a party in South-Central Los Angeles on Sunday night, wounding five people, was fatally shot after someone returned fire, authorities said. Read More ⇒
TAMPA, Fla. — On a blazing Sunday morning, a group of gun owners gathers at a shooting range in Ruskin. They load 9 millimeters and assault rifles, then aim, fire, shoot. Loud cracks sound as bullets whizz through targets. Read More ⇒
Jevon Eddy, 25, of Malone, was charged by state police Thursday in the village of Canton with first-degree possessing dangerous prison contraband, a felony. Read More ⇒
TURIN — A call to the Statewide Central Register of Child Abuse and Maltreatment triggered an investigation that led to charges Wednesday for a man residing on East Road. Read More ⇒
Oswego County Police Blotter for Jan. 7. Read More ⇒
MALONE — A Malone man is facing a felony arson charge after his arrest in the village Wednesday morning. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Andrew Cuomo is still getting his day in court, albeit virtually. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Josef A. Thompson, 23, of Cedar Street, was charged by city police with two counts of second-degree criminal contempt, a misdemeanor. Read More ⇒
Ghislaine Maxwell’s legal team is calling for a new trial after one of the jurors who convicted her last week of five of six counts related to child sex trafficking told reporters he was a victim of sexual abuse and had convinced other jurors to convict Maxwell. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — In her first State of the State address, Gov. Kathleen C. Hochul vowed Wednesday that 2022 will mark a new era for New York with plans to invest $10 billion in health care and its workforce, $100 million in tax relief for small businesses, to replace the state ethics watchdog agency… Read More ⇒
ALBANY — Senate Republicans jumpstarted the 2022 legislative session Wednesday before the first gavel to outline their agenda for the year, announcing they will fight hard to repeal the state’s cashless bail laws, cutting taxes and measures to improve workforce development programs to bolste… Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Dejuan J. Butler, 31, of Franklin Street, was charged by city police with third-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, driving while intoxicated and a traffic violation. Read More ⇒
WASHINGTON — The House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol is considering holding televised hearings during prime evening viewing hours so that the public can have “the best opportunity” to hear testimony and evaluate evidence, the panel’s chairman said. Read More ⇒
ALBANY — The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision could face legal action or potential penalties after incarcerated New Yorkers were incorrectly penalized when a former department drug testing platform gave false positives for the opioid buprenorphine. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Lamar Wright, 50, a Watertown resident without an address, was charged by city police on Thursday with first-degree criminal contempt and second-degree harassment. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Skylar M. Willsie, 20, of Glenfield, was charged by city police Sunday in Copenhagen with four counts of first-degree reckless endangerment, second-degree aggravated unlicensed of a motor vehicle and reckless driving. Read More ⇒
Matthew P. McLean, 35, of Rensselaer Falls, was charged by state police Tuesday in Ogdensburg with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, both misdemeanors. Read More ⇒
LOWVILLE — A Turin man accused of running from sheriff’s deputies Saturday faces several charges. Read More ⇒
WATERTOWN — Beth M. Murphy, 49, of Michigan Avenue, was charged by city police Friday with third-degree arson. Read More ⇒
Catherine S. Fifield, 21, of Canton, was charged by state police Saturday with first-offense driving while intoxicated and aggravated DWI per se, both misdemeanors. Read More ⇒
SAN JOSE, Calif. — In a stunning climax to Silicon Valley’s most dramatic and closely watched startup crash, Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty Monday of four of 11 counts of criminal fraud, while being acquitted of another four counts. A mistrial was declared on three additi… Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — The Manhattan District Attorney will not bring charges in connection with former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s handling of nursing homes during the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, a lawyer for the embattled ex-gov said Monday. Read More ⇒
NEW YORK — A $500,000 settlement in 2009 between Jeffrey Epstein and one of his victims, which Prince Andrew says shields him from lawsuits, was unsealed by a Manhattan federal judge Monday. Read More ⇒