South Otselic News

Theirs is an unexpected friendship, but it is the relationship that keeps Cindy Ford coming back to the South Otselic vacation home she once shared with George Ford Jr.

Rebecca Porter, the daughter of Wayne and Laura Porter of Otselic, was recently named this year's valedictorian for Otselic Valley Central School .

Patrons of the post office in South Otselic should use the post office in North Pitcher after a Sunday fire damaged the South Otselic facility at 1605 state Route 26, according to the U.S. Postal Service.

NORWICH _ If George Ford Jr. is found guilty today in Chenango County Court of second-degree murder, the most important piece of evidence against him will have been the GPS receiver hidden inside his truck.

NORWICH _ The prosecution in the George Ford. Jr. murder trial rested Wednesday morning and defense attorney Randel Scharf of Cooperstown immediately asked the judge to dismiss the indictment against his ...

NORWICH _ Shyanne Somers died within a few minutes of being run over by a three-quarter-ton pickup truck in July 2007, according to Dr.

NORWICH _ In the George Ford Jr. murder trial Tuesday, a state police forensic scientist testified that he found no semen on any evidence tested in connection with the death of 12-year-old Shyanne Somers.

Stephen Moehling, of San Diego, Calif., vice president of Land Air Sea of Chicago, Ill., is expected to take the stand at 9 a.m. today when the second-degree felony murder trial of George Ford Jr.

Shyanne Autumn Somers was an outdoors girl, fond of art, drama, horses and home, community members said Thursday.

A New Jersey man accused of deliberately running over a 12-year-old upstate New York girl has had the start of his murder trial pushed back.

The second-degree murder trial of a New Jersey man accused of deliberately running over a South Otselic, N.Y., girl in July was adjourned Wednesday morning until Monday.

George Ford Jr., 43, a contractor from Piscataway, N.J., charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 12-year-old girl, told investigators he tossed the GPS system that is providing evidence against him ...

A New Jersey man accused of running down a 12-year-old baby sitter is on trial for murder in central New York, with a vehicle tracking device installed by his suspicious wife among the key evidence.

The second-degree murder trial of a New Jersey contractor accused of running down his 12-year-old baby sitter with a pickup truck will begin Monday, Feb.

NORWICH _ A New Jersey man accused of murdering a 12-year-old baby sitter in South Otselic in 2007 has opted for trial by judge rather than jury.