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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 27, 2011

N.Y. Sheriff's Air Unit Could Get Corporate Logo

Onondaga County (N.Y.) Sheriff Kevin Walsh has offered naming rights to the agency's helicopter to keep the unit in service. With Air One at risk of being grounded by budget cuts, Sheriff Walsh began talks with two potential sponsors.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 20, 2011

N.Y. Police Recruits To Join 11 Agencies

The Westchester County Police academy graduated 31 recruits who will join 11 municipal and transit agencies in the area. Of the 31 recruits, 18 will join the Yonkers Police Department.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 6, 2011

N.Y. Sheriff's K-9 Dies In Building Search

Niagara County Sheriff's Deputy Craig Beiter and Rocky were searching St. Mary's Hospital in Niagara Falls on Sunday, when Rocky jumped over a over a three-foot retaining wall and fell about 60 feet to his death.

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Newsby Staff WriterDecember 1, 2011

N.Y. Troopers Issue 816 Texting Tickets Over Holiday Weekend

New York State Police cracked down on texting drivers, issuing 816 tickets over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend during "Operation Hang-Up."

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Newsby Staff WriterNovember 3, 2011

N.Y. Bodybuilder Dies After Fighting Cops

The Colonie (N.Y.) Police officers who subdued a weightlifter who later died appear to have acted appropriately, according to Chief Steven Heider. Responding officers stopped Chad Brothers, 32, who was tearing up a Gold's Gym in a one-man riot on Monday.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 20, 2011

N.Y. Cop Killer Charged with Possessing 'Escape Paraphernalia'

Ralph "Bucky" Phillips, who shot one New York State Police trooper to death and wounded two others five years ago during the largest manhunt in state history, has been accused of stuffing a sweat shirt with other clothes, to make it look like a dummy.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 18, 2011

N.Y. Trooper Shot In the Face with BB Gun

A New York State Police officer was shot in the face with a BB gun and two Cortland Police officers were hit by glass shards during a stand-off on Sunday with an 18-year-old man.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 9, 2011

Man Attempts Suicide by Cop at N.Y. Newspaper Office

A Schenectady (N.Y.) Police officer shot a knife-wielding man in the lobby of an upstate New York newspaper Saturday afternoon in an apparent suicide-by-cop encounter.

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Newsby Staff WriterOctober 5, 2011

N.Y. State Sergeants Agree To 10-Hour Shifts

Under terms of the agreement, sergeants receive additional days off. However, they will be scheduled to work more hours in a year. The new schedule is expected to help eliminate scheduling gaps, which during a testing phase saved over 43 percent in overtime costs.

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Newsby Staff WriterSeptember 6, 2011

N.Y. Man Accused of Releasing Pit Bulls on Officers

Officers responding to a domestic dispute at a Rochester, N.Y., home faced two charging pit bulls, allegedly released by a man who refused to respond to repeated attempts to contact him.

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