Erie County's sheriff defends management at the jail where Ralph "Bucky" Phillips escaped in April. Sheriff Timothy Howard said understaffing and overcrowding are ongoing problems at the Alden Correctional Facility. He also says there was no criminal history to indicate Phillips was a flight risk.
The family of a student from Victor who drowned while away at college in Canton has filed a suit against the school. Adam Falcon's body was found in a river near the St. Lawrence University campus days after he was seen drunk at a campus party.
Spinach will return to the shelves after a nationwide warning of fresh varieties of the vegetable grown in California. The Food and Drug Administration eased its warning about fresh spinach after the recent E-coli outbreaks.
A community activist, Christian minister and firefighter says he is not guilty of raping a child. Pablo Nieves sat with his wife and his attorney at a news conference Thursday. Nieves did not speak, but through his lawyer, Nieves denied the rape allegations.
New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi apologized for failing to reimburse the state for using one of his employees as a chauffeur for his wife. The Democratic state comptroller made his apology Monday morning in Lake George at a meeting of the New York State Association of Counties.
A California judge sentenced 17-year-old Scott Dyleski to life in prison without parole for bludgeoning the wife of a prominent criminal defense attorney to death.
His friends and attorney asked the court for mercy, but life in prison without parole is instead the sentence for Scott Dyleski, 17, convicted of killing Pamela Vitale, the wife of a prominent California defense attorney.
MARTINEZ, Calif. -- A California teenager convicted of murdering the wife of a prominent San Francisco-area attorney has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
A teenager convicted of murdering the wife of a prominent defense lawyer was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. The teenager, Scott Dyleski, was 16 when he bludgeoned and stabbed his neighbor, Pamela Vitale, 45, in October 2005. He was convicted last month of first-degree murder. He avoided the death penalty because of his age. Ms. Vitale was married to Daniel Horowitz.
The lawyer for convicted murderer Scott Dyleski asked a Contra Costa judge for the lightest possible sentence in the bludgeoning death of a prominent defense attorney's wife.
