Twenty-two years. Twenty-two years of grief, of anger, of a sense of lost innocence. As Taps echoed Monday across Courthouse Park in Cortland to mark the 22nd anniversary of the attacks on the …
A misdemeanor forcible touching charge was filed against Roman Catholic priest last week because he had pressed his groin against a teenage girl during a church bus trip to Ohio in 2021, the girl …
State Police have charged a Dryden woman in the kidnapping and killing of an Ithaca man, the 11th person charged, they announced Friday. The first 10 arrests were announced Monday in …
A Roman Catholic priest was charged Thursday night with sexually abusing a minor while serving at churches in the greater Cortland area. The Rev. Nathan W. Brooks, 36, of Lafayette was charged …
GROTON – Groton firefighters have been discussing a new fire station since 1990. By next summer, they’ll have it. And new offices for village administration, too. The $4.2 …
Snak: kconlon@cortlandstandard.com About two months ago, just up Route 13 from the Truxton Fire Station, a man was trying …
ITHACA — Ten people have been charged with kidnapping and killing an Ithaca man from behind a Lowes in Ithaca, an area known as the “Jungle,” state police said Monday A hundred …
The man arrested following a 3 1/2-hour standoff Aug. 11 faces another appearance in September in Cortland City Court, where he stands accused of breaking into a neighbor’s apartment in his …
Truxton’s historic bell, located in front of the Truxton Fire Department, will now be historic for an additional reason. The town will be the first of 15 towns in Cortland County to have a naloxone distribution box, with Truxton’s right by the bell.
Cortland police and Cortland County sheriff's officers cordoned off a building at Owego and Squires streets in Cortland late Friday, as a special response team pointed their weapons toward the …
For an event that purported to focus so much on the past — the 150 years past — the Homer Fire Department’s celebration of its sesquicentennial on Saturday certainly featured a lot …
The state office of Fire Prevention and Control is investigating the cause of a fire Thursday night that largely gutted Cortland Floorcraft on North Homer Avenue Extension in Cortlandville. …
Two people have been arrested and charged in connection with a bank robbery Friday on Main Street, Cortland police said. Daniel A. Thilburg, 53, of 133 Corson Road, Maine, and Angela M. Schmidt, …
Cortland police and the FBI seek two people in connection with a robbery late Friday morning of a bank on Main Street in Cortland. A white man in his 50s, about 6 feet tall with a white beard, …
Nine-year-old Isabelle Brown and her 6-year-old brother Flynn Brown were all smiles Saturday morning as they each rolled bicycles to a table inside the back entrance to the former Armory in …
One firefighter was injured and a home on Rickard Street in Cortland was uninhabitable after a fire Thursday night, the Cortland Fire Department reported.Firefighters were called to 10 1/2 Rickard …
No injuries were reported Friday evening as a fire on Route 11 in Cortlandville destroyed at least two buildings and damaged another, and as a pair of explosions rattled neighbors more than a block …
A former Freetown man convicted of manslaughter was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison with five years of post-release supervision. Harold Young, 57, was found guilty in Cortland County …
Cortland County Judge Julie Campbell reserved judgment Thursday following conference for a man appealing for the third time to get out of prison, 14 years after he was convicted of murdering his …
Racist and antisemitic graffiti was discovered Tuesday on SUNY Cortland campus, said President Erik J. Bitterbaum in an email to students.The graffiti, which included a swastika and a racial epithet, …
A defense attorney moved Thursday to dismiss the case against a Cortland man whose 2019 guilty plea on rape and other charges was vacated on appeal, but key charges remain pending. Cortland County …
Volunteer fire departments recruit statewide By JACOB MACKStaff Reporterjmack@cortlandstandard.com Being a volunteer firefighter is a lot more than turning fires into steam, said Douglas …
Since late 2020, nearly three-quarters of the eligible speeders in Cortland County have dodged court — and the points on their licenses that bring increased insurance rates — by taking …
Advocates expected bail reform, enacted in 2020 to reduce the population of the perpetually crowded Cortland County Jail to a manageable level after decades of crowding. It did, but only for a …
A little girl learned Friday afternoon that she won’t have to be afraid to grow up. Her abuser, Mitchell L. Padbury, 63, of Marathon, was convicted on all six counts Friday in Cortland …
