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Federal Charges

Two Jamestown residents are among seven facing federal charges after the state Attorney General’s office and area police agencies broke up a drug trafficking operation in Buffalo and Jamestown that included fentanyl, cocaine, and methamphetamine. The 130-count indictment charges seven ...

Man Charged After Damaging Warming Center

A Jamestown man faces criminal mischief charges after allegedly damaging the ROME warming center on Washington street early Wednesday morning. Wade S. Pfleuger, 44, of Jamestown, was charged with second-degree criminal mischief at 3:46 a.m. Wednesday after officers responded to the warming ...

BOCES Sues To Recover $345K In Unpaid Fees

BOCES is suing the Cassadaga Job Corps Academy and two other contractors for unpaid LPN instruction fees. According to a lawsuit filed recently in state Supreme Court, BOCES is owed $345,280.42 from the Job Corps, while Dynamic Educational Systems Inc. of Phoenix Ariz., and Career Systems ...

Appeals Court Vacates Sex Offender Registration

A convicted sex offender’s appeal of his designation as a sexually violent offender under the state’s Sex Offender Registration Act is coming back to Chautauqua County Court. The Fourth Department Court of Appeals in Rochester ruled recently that a former Pennsylvania resident who was ...

Jamestown Man Loses Manslaughter Appeal

The Fourth Department Appellate Division has ruled against a Jamestown man’s appeal of his guilty plea first-degree manslaughter. Tavion Turner, 25, accepted a plea deal in July 2021 on the day jury selection was to begin in his murder trial. Turner was originally charged with two counts ...

SKF Sales, Operating Profits Down

SKF is reporting a sixth consecutive quarter of negative organic growth as the company continues to manage what Rickard Gustafson, SKF president and CEO, says is a volatile environment. SKF operates the SKF Aeroengine North America plant in Falconer after acquiring MRC Bearings in 1986. ...