Crime

Troopers say a Cortland County family filed a report in January that fake Facebook and Instagram accounts were being created featuring phony photos of their 16-year-old daughter.

On May 5, the Cortland Common Council unanimously agreed to spend $15,500 on a K9 and related training.

On April 30, deputies arrested Nathaniel Crane following a complaint of inappropriate contact with a child in the Town of Candor.

On May 4, deputies responded to a farm in the Town of Lapeer to investigate a reported suspicious person just after 10 a.m.

Authorities are trying to identify a person of interest in a possible larceny that occurred at Target in Big Flats on May 2.

Police are now saying four teenagers accused in the fatal attack last week in Binghamton are being charged with second-degree murder.

Dale Wead is accused of illegally entering a home on Clark Street in the village and attacking a man inside.

Troopers posing as road crew workers Monday, May 4 wrote 33 speeding tickets, three for failing to move over, 10 using an electronic device, and three for not wearing seatbelts.

Sheriff Jim Allard says Melissa Aldrich failed to report income between Jan. 1 to June 15, 2024, and allowed someone to use her EBT card.

22-year-old Craig Wallace and a 17-year-old juvenile are accused of taking more than $30k worth of electric blower motors from Twin Tiers Car Wash.