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A Cattaraugus County grand jury Friday indicted two Conewango men with burglary - a crime that occurred overnight Aug.

Organizing to do business for 2010, the Cattaraugus County Legislature this week decided how to spend state public works money, made several appointments, approved contracts with funding for agencies and hired outside attorneys to help with the workload.

Though the venue was different, the arguments remained the same. The process to determine a winner in the County Legislature's District 7 race continued Monday, with attorneys spending the morning in Rochester.

James Joseph Lasecki of 28 Pine St., Dunkirk, NY, died Sunday . He was born on Dec.

By NICHOLAS L. DEAN OBSERVER Mayville Bureau County Legislator Leon Beightol benefited more from the court's election ruling this past week than his Republican challenger - even though the decision was fairly even-handed. With counsel for both parties contesting ballots cast in the Nov.

By:Springville Journal Staff As printed in the December 17 edition of the Journal SEVENTY YEARS AGO January 4, 1940 Burton J. McCormick, chief of the Bureau of Instructional Supervision of the New York State Education Department, Albany, has retired from the department effective January 1, 1940.

It's still anyone's election - or no one's, as a tie is a very likely possibility.

MAYVILLE a ' The winner of the County Legislaturea TMs District 7 race will be decided in court, as Republican counsel for Robert Stewart served the Board of Elections with an order to show cause Monday.

Kings of Leon rocker Jared Followill has reportedly ended his engagement with model Alisa Torres to start a relationship with 'Twilight' actress Ashley Greene.

Norah Jones isn't quite so serene or folky anymore. On her fourth album, "The Fall," she moves away from both a romance and the sound that made her one of this decade's few consistent million-sellers. Ms.

"BUSINESS isn't what it used to be," Ramon Tellado Rosa said from behind a pile of bananas at his stall at the Mercado Santurce in the Campo Alegre district of San Juan , P.R. - for decades the place where Sanjuaneros have come for fresh produce.

Ellicottville Fall Festival October 10 & 11 It's the oldest and largest Festival when the foliage of the surrounding hills is ablaze with color.

Nothing gives a concert a sense of occasion like the buzz of a capacity crowd, a point that holds just as true at small experimental spaces as it does at marquee destinations like Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall .

They formed the rock band Kings of Leon in 2002, and seven years later, after nearly instant stardom in the U.K., the band is finally charting in the States with its fourth album, 2008's Only by the Night.

Spanish speakers in New York know him as El Rey de la Radio - the King of Radio.

In the category of sudden and unexpected changes of scenery, the decision of filmmaking brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne to set their latest film, Lorna's Silence , in the Belgian city of Lige, may be the biggest surprise since Woody Allen traded the Upper West Side for Europe.