Low staffing levels in the police department hampered its efforts to respond to the shooting of an officer earlier this month, according to officers who warned that proposed budget cuts to the Ithaca Police Department could exacerbate the challenges city police face.

Earlier in the day, police said they were treating the object as a "possible explosive device."

Students and faculty expressed deeply-entrenched frustrations about the administration’s handling of racial issues at a forum held Wednesday that brought together approximately 200 members of the Cornell community.

As anger swells over the shooting of Trayvon Martin, a 17-year-old African American male, Cornellians gathered in solidarity at Ujamaa Residential College Thursday to discuss critical issues surrounding the tragedy.

The Board of Trustees of the Village of Cayuga Heights voted in January to appoint James Steinmetz the new chief of the village’s police department. Steinmetz, who has worked for the department for almost 18 years, replaces former police chief Thomas Boyce.

After years of serving the campus, a nimble member of the Cornell Police Department and Cornell’s first police dog, Sabre, died on Jan. 5. The 12-year-old dog, which suffered from a chronic infection before its death, left behind a legacy for other trained canines to come.

Elliot Mandel '11 voices his discontent with the campus police officers who broke up a recent snowball fight on the Arts Quad. 

Police are investigating a fatal shooting early Tuesday morning at 301 Maple Ave. Police are continuing their investigation.

There were two strong-armed robberies in Ithaca this Thanksgiving weekend, one on Thursday and one Sunday night.

Following three forcible touching incidents — one of which involved a strong-armed robbery — and several burglaries at Collegetown restaurants, the Cornell University Police Department is requiring students who regularly cross the suspension bridge to present their Cornell identification  cards to police and provide any information they may have about these incidents.