A Sunday morning fire destroyed a house at 8996 Park Road in the town of Arkwright. Numerous agencies responded to the blaze, that was called in around 5:45 a.m. Those fire departments include: Sunset Bay, Sheridan, Emergency Services, Cassadaga, East Dunkirk, Silver Creek, Stockton, ...
A city man was in jail Sunday morning after a domestic incident on Saturday. Jason A Swartz, 40, of Jamestown was charged with second-degree strangulation, unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child. At 3:46 a.m. Sunday, officers responded to a Southside address on a follow-up from a domestic dispute that took place at 8:30 p.m. Saturday. That evening, a female victim arrived at the department’s reception area with significant bruises around her neck. It was determined that Swartz was involved in a physical domestic with the victim. The defendant reportedly ...
BOSTON (AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump's administration must to continue to fund SNAP, the nation's biggest food aid program, using contingency funds during the government shutdown. The rulings came a day before the U.S. Department of Agriculture planned to freeze payments to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program because it said it could no longer keep funding it due to the shutdown. The program serves about 1 in 8 Americans and is a major piece of the nation's social safety net. Word in October that it would be a ...
Chautauqua County has been awarded a $1 million grant through the New York State Empire State Development County Infrastructure Grant Program. This funding will be used to advance two transformative housing and infrastructure projects – one in Dunkirk and the other in Westfield – that are ...
New York state Gov. Kathy Hochul has declared a state of emergency in response to the Trump administration stripping food assistance from 3 million New Yorkers come Saturday. As the federal government shutdown continues, the administration has refused to release billions in statutorily approved federal contingency funding that would address this crisis in states across the nation. By refusing to release this contingency funding, the federal government is leaving millions of New Yorkers without critical assistance they rely on to feed themselves and their families. “The Trump ...
Bishop Michael W. Fisher of the Buffalo Diocese has returned from a week-long visit to the Vatican, where he met with His Holiness Pope Leo XIV and several Dicasteries (administrative offices) of the Holy See to detail the progress of bringing together diocesan parishes, known as the “Road ...
