A Jamestown man has died in a fire that erupted in his second-floor apartment early Sunday morning on the city's southside.
Jamestown Fire Battalion Chief Sam Salemme says a neighbor called in the alarm after smelling smoke in the area. Salemme says crews were called to the scene at 119 Myrtle Street shortly after 1 AM and, found light smoke coming from the apartment.
Salemme says Alstar ambulance rushed the man to UPMC Chautauqua WCA Hospital where he was later pronounced dead. The dog also perished in the fire.
Salemme says crews contained the fire to the kitchen-area, and had the blaze out fairly quickly. He says a cooking fire in the kitchen started the blaze.
Crews were at the scene until about 2:15 AM. He says an off-duty shift was called in to assist. The man's identity is not yet being released. Salamme says there were no working smoke detectors inside the apartment.
A Kennedy man died early last weekend after his home caught fire following a problem with the heating furnace.
Chautauqua County Fire Investigators add, though, that they are still looking into a final cause of the blaze at 3967 Sprague Hill Road. Dispatchers say Kennedy fire crews were called to the scene shortly after 9:30 AM Saturday.
Firefighters say they found 60 year-old William Caldwell unresponsive inside the residence. Fire rescuers rushed Caldwell to UPMC Chautauqua WCA Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Kennedy firefighters were joined at the scene by Ellington, Gerry, Randolph, Fluvanna, Frewsburg and Kiantone Fire crews.
Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is proposing a two-month extension of the last state budget to avoid a government shutdown after he and state lawmakers failed to reach agreement on a new spending plan.
Cuomo says he has assurances from leaders of the Senate and the Assembly the stopgap spending plan will pass Monday. Negotiations bogged down over education spending and a juvenile justice reform sought by Democrats that would raise the age of criminal responsibility so 16- and 17-year-old offenders aren't prosecuted as adults.
Democratic Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie says a temporary budget will buy lawmakers time to come to agreement. The temporary budget would extend current spending levels and not include Cuomo's plan to make state college tuition free for middle-class students.
It's not going to happen overnight but, the United States' tax code needs major retorm to allow the nation to compete in the global marketplace.
That from local Congressman Tom Reed during an appearance late last week at Jamestown Electroplating on Water Street. The Corning Republican says work is underway on trying to lower the "Marginal" Corporate Tax rate from 39%to about 20% or less which was set the last time the code was reformed in 1986.
Reed says the bi-partisan "Problem Solver's Caucus" he co-chair's with New Jersey Democrat Josh Gottenheimer has written a letter to the Trump Administration saying they want to work as a block with them on tax reform, and infrastruture issues.
Chautauqua County Executive Vince Horrigan says those are critical to further keeping and adding jobs to the region.
Reed says having the "Problem Solver's Caucus" on board with tax reform and infrastructure is important, because that's 20 Democrats who have generally agreed to work on those two issues.
U-S Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer is urging President Donald Trump to veto a resolution that would kill an online privacy regulation, a move that could allow internet providers to sell information about their customers' browsing habits.
The New York senator and 46 other Senate Democrats have signed a letter calling on Trump to "tell us whose side he's really on." The Federal Communications Commission rule issued in October was designed to give consumers greater control over how internet service providers such as Comcast, AT&T and Verizon share information.
But critics say the rule would have stifled innovation and picked winners and losers among internet companies.
Schumer says if Trump signs the resolution, consumers "will be stripped of critical privacy protections in a New York minute."
Republican U.S. Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania says he'd support changing Senate rules to bypass Democratic opposition and confirm Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee.
During an appearance at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference last Friday Toomey also said Democrats have never said Judge Neil Gorsuch ignored or misapplied the law in cases before him.
Toomey last year backed a Republican refusal to consider then-President Barack Obama's nomination of Judge Merrick Garland to fill the high court opening. But Toomey says this is different. A Senate confirmation vote is expected later this week.
Unless 60 senators support Gorsuch, Republicans would have to change Senate rules to allow Gorsuch to be confirmed with a simple majority vote in the 100-member Senate. Getting to 60 votes would require six more Democrats to back Gorsuch.
Two women have been charged following a vicious fight in the town of Stockton in late March involving a crow-bar and sawzall.
Sheriff's officers say 19 year-old Victoria Miller and 23 year-old Karen Miller got into the brawl about 5 PM on Sunday, March 26th at a home on Railroad Avenue.
Deputies say Karen Miller allegedly pushed and hit Victoria Miller in the face, causing red marks. Officers say that Victoria Miller then grabbed a sawzall and started swinging it at Karen Miller, scratching her legs and wrist. She then allegedly grabbed a metal crow bar and hit Karen Miller in the arm.
Deputies say Victoria Miller was charged with third-degree assault and sent to the county jail with bail to be set. Karen Miller was charged with second-degree harassment and scheduled to appear in Stockton Town Court at a later date.
Two organizations are teaming up to host a spaghetti dinner fund-raiser this Tuesday night at Jamestown Community College that also high-lights the issue of pay equity.
The American Association of University Women and the Jamestown Community College Student Senate are hosting the dinner at the Week's Reception Room beginning at 5:30 PM.
JCC Student Senate President Preston Ross says students will pay $5with I-D while men will pay$10 and, women$8.
Ross says the money raised from this event is also going to be staying local as well and helping to benefit our community to benefit the Salvation Army.
This Pay Equity Day Spaghetti dinner is being put on by the AAUW in conjunction with the JCC Student Senate and it is open to the public at the Weeks reception room on the JCC Campus from 5:30 to 7 PM on Tuesday night.
A well-known Jamestown-area doctor who has been practicing medicine for more than 50 years in the Jamestown-area has been named as UPMC Chautauqua-WCA Hospital's "Physician of the Year."
The Post-Journal reports that Dr. Robert Scott was given the award during the annual Doctor's Day Luncheon at the hospital. He started practicing medicine in Jamestown in 1973.
Scott says he wasn't expecting the honor but, adds he's "happy to accept it." He attended medical school at Cornell University, and did his residency at the University of Pennsylvania.
