When Former Homer Fire Chief Mahlon Irish Jr. joined the Homer Fire Department in 1974, there were no protocols for cleaning gear after fires.Forty years later, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer, …
Jurors will resume deliberations this morning in the case of a 63-year-old Marathon man accused of repeatedly sexually abusing a 6-year-old girl in 2014 and 2015. The trial of Mitchell L. Padbury …
Twelve jurors were seated Monday in the trial of Mitchell L. Padbury, accused of sexually assaulting a child nine years ago. One alternate juror was also seated, which leaves one …
It's the cumin. Or maybe the meat. Perhaps the beans. Or then the heat. The perfect chili's a secret. Some say it's the sweet. Or maybe it's just fun. A reason to compete. The fire apparatus …
Last week alone, 40 people in Onondaga County were admitted to a hospital for xylazine-related overdoses. In October, the Tompkins County Sheriff’s Office put out a public safety alert for …
The attorney representing Tyshawn Pittman, accused of trying to murder his girlfriend’s friend, asked Thursday morning for a psychiatric evaluation. Attorney Jarrod Smith requested a …
The odor of burned wood and melted materials lingered in the air Tuesday morning. Charred bits and pieces of roofing littered the street and sidewalk around Garcia’s Restaurant on Main …
More than a hundred people watched Monday night as fire heavily damaged a building that housed Garcia’s Mexican Restaurant on Main Street in Cortland. Firefighters from Cortland – all hands were called – Cortlandville and Homer, responded shortly after 6 p.m. to the report.
Bob Johnson, a 46-year veteran of the Homer Fire Department, was manning the pumps on a fire truck during a house fire Feb. 22 on Haights Gulf Road when he felt the telltale signs of a heart attack. …
When Cortland County’s emergency dispatchers walk into a new call center, it won’t be an empty building. It’ll have millions of dollars in new equipment ready for them to work …
A city man was charged Monday with vehicular homicide, following a one-car crash Saturday morning on Homer Avenue, Cortland police said.
The response was difficult when a tractor-trailer crashed in June on an Interstate 81 bridge in Cortland, spilling hundreds of gallons of concentrated weed-killer into the Tioughnioga River, said …
Seventy-nine people opened their mail this week to find a letter sent on behalf of the Stone Lounge: If they don’t pay $10,000 for using false identification to get into the bar, they’ll …
Cortland police charged a store cashier Wednesday with selling THC vape pens and other cannabis-related products to children as young as 13, and seized nearly $60,000 of product. Abdulla Saleh …
Homer Police Chief Robert Pitman and Homer Town Supervisor Fred Forbes walked through the basement of Homer Town Hall on Wednesday. This space would be the reception window to the new police …
A Cortland man was arraigned Tuesday in Cortland County Court, accused of shooting his neighbor in the neck in December. Tyshawn Pittman, 37, was charged with attempted second-degree murder, …
A former McGraw man was convicted Friday afternoon of stabbing to death a Cortland man in November 2021 after an argument over a relationship with the defendant’s daughter. Harold Young, 57, …
Harold Young testified Thursday he used a 3-inch pocket knife to stab a 4-inch wound into David Sears-Lopez in 2021. Police had recovered the weapon, and never realized it, testimony showed in …
After Harold Young stabbed David SearsLopez in November 2021, police searched Young’s home and a vehicle he used. But other than a Swiss Army knife, they found no weapon, police testified …
Harold Young will claim self-defense in the stabbing death November 2021 of David Sears-Lopez, his attorney told jurors Tuesday in opening statements of Young’s trial on a murder …
Firefighter Stephen Bradley looked through an air mask Tuesday. It was scratched and scuffed and if still serviceable, for now, not the easiest thing to see through. “When you’re in a …
David Narby was working Tuesday in his office at 1016 Route 13, Cortlandville, when he smelled something funny coming from the kitchen. He'd just steamed some broccoli, and had microwaved some …
Opening arguments begin today in Cortland County Court for the trial of Harold Young, who was charged with murder, accused of stabbing his daughter’s former boyfriend in 2021. Twelve jurors …
Firefighters, investigators and hazardous materials teams remained on the scene Friday morning of a fire that heavily damaged the Cortland Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep dealership on Route 281 in …
Firefighters, investigators and hazardous materials teams remained on the scene Friday morning of a fire that heavily damaged the Cortland Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep dealership on Route 281 in …
