Baker Says Grand Jury Is Likely For Erwin Gang Assault 

Steuben County District Atttorney Brooks Baker tells our news department that the Gang Assault case out of Erwin will likely go before a grand jury before the month is over.  State Police have charged several suspects with gang assault after an investigation into a party which got out of control in the Town of Erwin, in November.

 

New Deputy Receives A Commendation For Saving Lives

Deputy Jeffrey Robinson is a former Corning Fire Department EMT who has joined the sheriff’s office.  Robinson was honored Monday, for saving two lives at the same time, in January, in Bath. 

From Sheriff Jim Allard: 

A Steuben County deputy was commended Monday before the county Legislature Public Safety and Corrections Committee for his life-saving action in late January.  A recent department enlistee from the Corning Fire Department, county Deputy Jeffrey Robinson responded to a residence in the Town of Bath that reportedly contained two persons who had both attempted to commit suicide, Allard told the committee.
Upon his arrival in the evening of Jan. 25, Robinson observed two persons with lacerations to their left arms and retrieved his EMT supplies and began treatment to the female who had lacerated her brachial artery and was bleeding profusely, Allard said.   Robinson applied a tourniquet and packed the wound, while directing another unit on scene to apply pressure to the wound on the injured male, Allard reported.   Both patients were transported to a local medical center by ambulance and survived.  

 

Langworthy Praises Supreme Court For Yesterdays Call

Republican Congressman Nick Langworthy says the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to rule the Colorado ban against Donald Trump running on the ballot in that state unconstituational, Langworthy says that "was a big victory for the American people."  Langworthy also says it’s "a clear message to activist judges that partisan attacks on the right to vote, don’t work."

 

Chautauqua Co Dem Is Not A Free Trader

Langworthy’s apparent Democrat opponent is Chautauqua County Democrat candidate Tom Carle.  He has been getting political petition signatures recently in Steuben County and Allegany County recently.  Tom Carle says, he supports the idea of fair trade, not free trade.  ,"I think fair trade is more where I would be," said Chautauqua County Democrat Tom Carle.   

 

Schumer: Getting Raises For Fed FIrefighters

Democrat US Senator Chuck Schumer says the bipartisan package the senate is delivering includes a pay raise for federal firefighters.  From SChumer's Twitter page: "The bipartisan package we're delivering maintains the critical pay raise for brave federal firefighters and supports wildfire suppression as wildfire season grows longer and more severe."  

 

GOP State Senator Tom O'Mara on Bail Reform Suspects: They Just Keep Getting Nailed On More And More Charges

Republican State Senator Tom O’Mara says a new study out shows that 66 percent of suspects released on bail reform get arrested again and almost half of that 66 percent get rearrested on charges which are felonies.