David Sweat

It has been 20 years since the 4th of July holiday was shattered by word that a Broome County Sheriff's Deputy had been brutally gunned down in a Kirkwood park.

David Sweat - convicted of killing Broome County sheriff's deputy Kevin Tarsia - is refusing to eat and state prison officials want permission to forcibly feed him.

The July 4th holiday in Broome County is a somber occasion for some who remember the murder of a Sheriff’s Deputy while on patrol in Kirkwood 18 years ago.

The woman who helped killers David Sweat and Richard Matt escape the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora is up for parole.

Area law enforcement officers, family and members of the community are remembering the death of a Broome County Sheriff’s Deputy 16 years ago.

A state senator took to Twitter to slam a man convicted in the killing of a Broome County sheriff's deputy who now is reportedly refusing to eat at Attica state prison.

The New York State Inspector General’s Office is faulting the Clinton Correctional Facility for “chronic complacency and systematic failures” that allowed two killers to escape.

The man who killed a Broome County Sheriff’s Deputy in 2002 will have to foot the bill for his escape from a maximum security prison in Northern New York last spring.

David Sweat has been arraigned on three felony counts in connection with his escape from a maximum-security state prison. The 35-year-old Sweat made a brief appearance August 20 in Clinton County Court. Sweat did not enter a plea to two counts of escape and one count of promoting prison contraband...

A dozen Clinton Correctional Facility employees have been placed on administrative leave in the aftermath of the escape of David Sweat and Richard Matt. The state Department of Corrections and Community Supervision announced the action Tuesday morning...