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TUPPER LAKE, N.Y. - A Tupper Lake man has been sentenced in Federal Court after pleading guilty to possession of more than 1,000 images of child pornography on his computer.

LITTLE FALLS, N.Y. (WKTV) - Four people have been charged following an eight month investigation into the illegal sale of prescription medications and cocaine in the City of Little Falls.

CROGHAN, N.Y. (WKTV) - It may not have been the holiday greeting he was hoping for when a Christmas card landed a Lewis County man with a court date.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Only days after calling for an overhaul of gun control in New York following the Connecticut school shooting, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a tough proposal on gun control is ready to become law.

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York's Senate where Republicans hold strong sway has approved what supporters say will be the toughest gun laws in the nation.

MARCY, N.Y. (WKTV) - An employee at the Midstate Correctional Facility has been charged with petit larceny and official misconduct after authorities say he stole gasoline from the facility for personal use.

WESTMORELAND, N.Y. - Six people are facing charges following a month-long investigation surrounding a party at a home in Westmoreland where they say a sexual assault took place.

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Police say that a man seen in surveillance footage attacking two different women at separate locations in the City of Utica is actually much younger than the images are leading residents to believe.

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Utica Police are looking for a person who allegedly robbed the Dari-Del on the corner of Bleecker Street and Culver Avenue Wednesday night. Police say it happened around 8 pm. and the suspect robbed the store at gunpoint.

HERKIMER, N.Y. (WKTV) - Herkimer Police have found the woman who had been reported missing earlier in the day on Thursday. Shortly after her photo was circulated amid the media, police say she was located by the Montgomery County Sheriff's Department in the Town of Amsterdam. She was fine and found to be in good health, authorities said.

UTICA, N.Y. (WKTV) - Utica Police say the fifth man accused in the assault of a family in the early morning hours of New Year's Day has turned himself in. Benjamin Verenich, 18, of Utica has been charged with third and second-degree assault.

OTSEGO COUNTY, N.Y. - A Hobart man has been given the longest sentence ever to a drug trafficker in Otsego County Court. On Wednesday, January 16, Dante Major was sentenced to 55 years to life.

KIRKLAND, N.Y. (WKTV) Kirkland Police are asking for help identifying two suspects in a larceny.

OXFORD, N.Y. (WKTV) - A Chenango County woman is accused of assaulting another person with shovel.

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. (WKTV) - A month-long investigation into cologne thefts from two stores in New Hartford has come to a close and resulted in the arrest of two individuals.

SHARON SPRINGS, N.Y. (WKTV) - New York State Police say they are looking for a man they say robbed the NBT Bank in Sharon Springs on Wednesday.

FONDA, N.Y. (AP) - A trial is under way for an upstate New York man charged with stabbing two people to death last year in a Mohawk Valley apartment.

SHARON SPRINGS, N.Y. (WKTV) - Authorities have released further details about the suspect they are searching for in a Wednesday afternoon bank robbery in Sharon Springs.

PROSPECT, N.Y. (WKTV) - Authorities say a teenage girl from the Village of Prospect who had been considered a missing runaway, last seen in November has now been located.

RICHFIELD SPRINGS, N.Y. (WKTV) - State Police are looking for help identifying a man and a woman who walked into the Dollar General in Richfield Springs and walked out with several hundred dollars worth of medicine.

Tupper Lake man sentenced in federal court on child porn charges

Four accused of selling prescription medications, cocaine in Little Falls

Christmas card leads to charges for Lewis County man

NY poised to be 1st to pass post-massacre gun bill

NY Senate passes 'landmark' gun control laws

Man accused of stealing gas from Correctional Facility while employed there

Six facing charges after reported party, sexual assault in Westmoreland

Police: Suspect in attacks on women younger than he appears in video

Robbery at East Utica Dari-Del

OFFICIALS: Missing woman found

Fifth suspect in New Year's Day assault of family turns himself in

Otsego County Drug Trafficker sentenced to 55 years to life in prison

Do you recognize these larceny suspects?

DEPUTIES: Woman used a shovel to assault victim

Two charged after thefts of more than $3,500 in cologne

Authorities investigate bank robbery in Sharon Springs by masked man

Fonda man on trial for double slaying in 2012

Further suspect details released in Sharon Springs bank robbery, reward offered

Authorities locate missing runaway from Prospect

State Police look for help identifying medicine thieves at Dollar General