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Delta cases ID’d in Delta County Two cases of the Delta COVID-19 variant have been identified in Delta County weeks after the new variant arrived in Mesa County. The Delta County Health Department on Thursday confirmed that, through sequencing of test samples, the Delta variant, which was first identified in India and has no relation to the county, was identified in two Delta County COVID-19 cases. The Delta variant has been identified in 30 Colorado counties, according to a press release from Delta County Public Health. Officials warn it’s considered significantly more transmissibl...

Search and rescue teams continue to scour the site where 55 of the 12-story condo building's 136 units came crashing down early Thursday.

The Leader After a technical error that led a judge to dismiss a sweeping indictment in a Steuben County sex trafficking case, a new set of charges was announced Tuesday against four men, one of them a sitting county legislator. The new indictment, which was handed up by a Steuben County grand jury, includes nearly two dozen more counts than the original — 54 counts compared to the original 32 — and includes felony counts of enterprise corruption, sex trafficking and promoting prostitution. Steuben County District Attorney Brooks Baker said the following defendants are charged in the ca...

4 days ago in Crime, Local Photo: WHCU ITHACA, N.Y. (WHCU) — A Steuben County legislator is among four men indicted by a grand jury on corruption charges relating to an alleged prostitution ring.   Legislator Steven Maio was arrested last August, charged with patronizing a prostitute. Steuben County District Attorney Brooks Baker says the prostitution ring stretched five years, from December 2015 to December 2020. The 54-count indictment also names Larry Comfort Senior, Larry Comfort Junior, and Jonathan Hamilton. A fifth man arrested, Michael Stratton,...

The Leader A technical error in the Steuben County grand jury proceedings that resulted in a sweeping indictment against five men, including a legislator, in a sex trafficking enterprise has been dismissed by a judge. But prosecutors plan to file the charges again. The indictment charging Larry Comfort Sr. — he's one of two brothers linked to the 1980 shooting death of a state police investigator — along with Steuben County Legislator Steven Maio and three other men was dismissed Tuesday by State Supreme Court Justice Thomas E. Moran. The men faced charges including enterpri...