Two women were killed when their sports utility vehicle was struck by a Mack truck at an intersection in Warren County's Pittsfield Township late yesterday morning.
State Police in Warren were called to the scene on Route 6 shortly after 10 a.m. and found that the driver of the westbound car, a 71 year-old woman, had stopped at the intersection with Route 27.
However, Troopers say the woman didn't yield to an oncoming truck and the driver of the car, and his 80 year-old female passenger, were both pronounced dead at the scene.
A third passenger, a 52 year-old woman, was flown to UPMC Hamot in Erie, Pennsylvania where she's in critical condition.
The driver of the truck was not hurt.The intersection was closed for about 3 hours.
Expect to see an increase in your winter gas bills, a nearly 27% increase.
That's the word from National Fuel gas, which issued its forecast for 2017-18 winter heating season bills.
NFG Spokeswoman Karen Merkel says the typical residential customer should expect to pay about $588-dollars for the five-month heating season, up from $464 last Winter.
Merkel says the utility used an average Winter weather model in making the forecast. She says the other factor the utility used in making the forecast was natural gas commodity costs, which have been on the rise.
The President and General Manager of Monofrax in Falconer was named 'Person of the Year' Thursday night at the annual Chautauqua County Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet.
William Andrews joined the company in June of 2016 and has changed the direction of the business. The 'Economic Development Award' was given to Fieldbrook Foods, a major ice cream maker in Dunkirk. President Bob Charleston says they've added three new production lines just within the last year.
The local Chambers of Commerce also presented their service awards at the event. The Jamestown Community Chamber recognized John Willilams, long time Parks Manager for the City of Jamestown. Williams was unable to attend the ceremony at Suny Fredonia, and will receive his award at a later date.
A Falconer mother faces charges after her child was found outside without supervision last Saturday.
Back on September 30th, Ellicott police observed a small child on the sidewalk on East Main Street in the village without an adult present. During investigation, it was found that the child's mother was 28 year-old Crystal Laroy. She was charged with endangering the welfare of a child and is to appear in Ellicott Town Court at a later date.
A "consolidated effort" on the part of Chautauqua County Legislators and department heads, has turned a 10-cent per thousand full value tax rate increase in the 2018 budget proposal into a 3-cent per thousand decrease.
That from Audit and Control Committee Chairman Pierre Chagnon who says the panel finished up it's four-days of work Thursday on County Executive Vince Horrigan's $236.4-million spending plan. Chagnon especially praised the work of the "home" committees.
Chagnon says lawmakers "cast a wide net" in looking for cost savings and additional revenues. He says one of the areas they found some additional savings was in the Department of Health and Human Services and the cost for "safety net" services for the poor.
Chagnon adds that sales taxes have been trending up for 2017 and lawmakers decided to bump that number up as well. He says it's a great relief to eliminate a proposed $700,00 increase in the local budget share. Chagnon says the committee will finalize it's work in two-weeks so the legislature can vote on the budget at the end of the month.
The City of Dunkirk is one of four communities that will be receiving $2.5-million in Smart Growth funding as part of the next phase of the "Buffalo Billion Two."
Governor Andrew Cuomo traveled to North Tonawanda to make the announcement Wednesday afternoon. Cuomo says Smart Growth focuses more on smaller communities.
The village of Gowanda in Cattaraugus County will also receive a $2.5 million grant. The two other communities included North Tonawanda and Lackawanna. All four communities filed applications for the $10 million Downtown Revitalization Initiative that went to the city of Olean.
Dunkirk Mayor Willie Rosas says he is "very, very excited" about the announcement. He calls it "great news" for the city, which plans on using the grant money towards revitalizing the city's downtown and waterfront areas. The funding may include improvements to the city pier and reconfiguration of the harbor plaza.
The State Department of Motor Vehicles and Department of Environmental Conservation urged motorist to take caution this morning as deer will become more active and are more likely to enter public roadways in the fall months.
They say two-thirds of all collisions between deer and vehicles occur during the months of October, November, and December because this is the time when deer breed and travel the most. Deer are especially active during dawn and dusk, making them less visible to traffic.
To reduce the chances of encountering a deer while driving, the DEC recommends to decrease speed when you see deer near roadsides; they tend to travel in groups so expect other deer to follow.
If you do strike a deer, the DEC says to stay away from the animal, pull off to the side of the road in a safe place, and alert authorities if the deer is blocking traffic and creating a threat for other drivers.
Warren County's top prosecutor says last August's police-involved shooting of a Clarendon, Pennsylvania man who looked like he was going to open fire with a loaded AK-47 at an ice cream stand was justified.
In fact District Attorney Rob Greene says Warren City Policeman Matt Mumford not only acted in "defense of himself, but others" when he shot and killed 54 year-old Joseph Miller in the Dairy Delite parking lot in Mead Township.
The Warren Times-Observer reports that Greene released a report late Wednesday on the August 4thincident after reviewing materials, including a video of the incident,trooper's reports, witness statements and interviews.
Police say Miller had been pulled over for various traffic violations when Mumford noticed he was acting strangely and he reported seeing Miller loading the AK-47. He says he ordered Miller to stop but, Miller failed to comply and got out of the vehicle with the loaded rifle, at which point Mumford fired his gun. Greene says the case is now closed.
