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Council Approves Tax Cap Levy Override

The City Council has approved an override of the state’s 2% tax cap - though council members hope not to have to use it. During Monday’s voting session, which followed a public hearing, the City Council officially approved the override. Before the approval, Councilman Tony Dolce, R-Ward 2, emphasized that this override does not necessarily mean that the city will have to raise taxes over the 2% limit. “This does not lock us into an automatic tax increase,” Dolce said. “It gives us the opportunity to do it if we have to. We’ve done this for the past few years, and I can ...

Penalty For Safe Storage Of Firearms Heads To Senate

A group of 49 Assembly Democrats are trying again to pass legislation that would allow penalties for those who don’t safely store their firearms in the presence of a minor. The Assembly passed Francesco’s Law in 2025, but the bill died in the state Senate. The Assembly passed the 2026 ...

South Dayton Man Gets Nine Years Prison For Child Porn

A South Dayton man will be serving time after being convicted of receipt of child pornography. U.S. Attorney Michael DiGiacomo announced Wednesday that Joseph A. Buelow, 31, was sentenced to serve 108 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Lawrence J Vilardo. In February 2024, the West Seneca Police Department seized Buelow’s phone, based on communications he was having online. A search of the phone recovered six images of child pornography that were saved on the phone and received by Buelow between August 2022 and November 2023. Some of the images depicted prepubescent minors and ...

Warren Man Faces Prison Time In Case Involving Jamestown Teen

A Warren man faces up to 27 years in prison after pleading guilty in the Court of Common Pleas to three felonies related to a missing New York teenager. Michael J. Bundy III, 25, of Warren was charged in July by Warren city police with felony charges of first-degree felony rape forcible compulsion, two counts of second-degree statutory sexual assault – 8-11 years or older, two counts of second-degree felony sexual assault, two counts of second-degree felony aggravated indecent assault – forcible compulsion, two counts of second-degree felony aggravated indecent assault without ...

Four City Residents Charged In Pa. Drug Probe

ERIE, Pa. — A Jamestown man faces life in prison as part of a federal grand jury indictment. Fifteen individuals from Erie, Jamestown and Ohio have been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of violating federal narcotics laws as the result of a Homeland Security Task Force investigation, United States Attorney Troy Rivetti announced Monday during a press conference held at Erie City Hall. The defendants were named in two separate but related one-count Indictments. The first of those indictments charged 13 of the defendants with conspiring to distribute and possess with ...