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CHAUTAUQUA Chautauqua town officials are moving ahead with a plan to establish town constables, in part to ensure protection at Chautauqua Institution.
During the Chautauqua Town Board meeting Monday, the board appointed Angelo Guiffre as a town constable. He was recently hired by Chautauqua Institution.
Before the vote, Supervisor Don Emhardt noted that he had been in touch with the state Department of Justice to establish constables. “We have to make them part-time employees but we don’t have to pay them,” he said. “The only time we would pay a constable is if we had them up here doing court security or something like that. The rest of the time they would be on Chautauqua Institution’s payroll.”
Rance Freeman
A Mayville man will spend more than a decade in prison for the November 2008 killing of his acquaintance a case boosted by advances in DNA testing technology and putting to rest a years-long investigation.
Rance “Randy” Freeman Jr. was sentenced Wednesday before Judge Susan M. Eagan to 14 years in state prison and five years post-release supervision for the killing of 55-year-old Jeffrey Johnson. The village man was indicted on murder charges in November 2018 before pleading guilty to a count of first-degree manslaughter in February of this year.
The COVID-19 pandemic pushed sentencing back by about seven months.
According to Chautauqua County District Attorney Patrick Swanson, the case was aided significantly by DNA forensic analysis that was not as advanced at the time of the Nov. 8, 2008, homicide. Specifically, Swanson said use of a DNA testing system known as STRmix helped investigators connect the murder weapon a fire place tool to Freeman.
Food drive in Atlantic City served community, union workers with holiday meal
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ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (WPVI) Thousands of cars rolled through Bader Field in Atlantic City to pick up a holiday meal on Friday.
Inside the cars were union workers. Many used to work at a casino or hotel in Atlantic City before the pandemic shut down most of the hospitality industry. This is a little relief with these hard times. It s hard, said Antonio Ramirez, from Atlantic City.
Venecio, a union worker, said, This is a big help for the community, especially right now. It s COVID times, so some people, they don t have jobs.