An inmate connected to a brutal attack on a counselor and officer at the Lakeview Shock Incarceration Facility in Brocton is facing charges in the February incident. Early Tuesday, a secret indictment authorized in April by a Chautauqua County Grand Jury was unsealed in County Court charging ...

Officials with the Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office have confirmed that the body pulled from Chautauqua Lake Saturday morning is that of Daniel “Scott” Emerson. Around 8:45 a.m. the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office received a call of a possible body on the shoreline near the ...

Though not from the region, Ken Soney has an emotional Dunkirk connection. A member of the U.S. Marine Corps, Soney was a best friend and served with Harry L. Kaus Jr. of Dunkirk. Kaus was the first Western New Yorker to be killed in action during the Vietnam War. “Dunkirk is a very ...

Two boys sit rocking back and forth, As bands play marching tunes. They laugh. “That man don’t have no legs,” they say. And creamy pink buds of dogwood trees Are swept away by the breeze. The boys get up and race through grassy fields To where their mother sits and ...

For my generation, which was the largest class of the past century, the Baby Boomers, determining our heroes, was quite simple. We turned to the new device that claimed space in the living room called the television. We tuned in to shows like Combat, Rat Patrol, Bah Bah Black Sheep and even the ...

GOWANDA – A nine-run second inning led No. 5 Brocton/Cassadaga Valley to a 12-1 win over No. 12 Wilson in a Section VI Class C baseball prequarterfinal Sunday. Trailing 1-0, the Bulldogs’ Nick Sweet, Chris Furman and Tanner Olmstead walked to load the bases with no outs in the second. ...