Woman dead, man wounded in drive-by shooting on E. Ferry and Stevens
One woman is dead and a man is being treated at Erie County Medical Center following a drive-by shooting at East Ferry and Stevens avenues about 8:30 p.m. MondayThe woman was pronounced dead at ECMC...
View ArticleSupreme Court to weigh recess appointments
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear what could become a landmark case on the limits of the president’s power to make appointments – along with a defining moment in the career...
View ArticleDaughter’s out-of-control party in Hamburg prompts mother to act
What happened in Hamburg two weeks ago played out like a Hollywood script involving teens, alcohol and an empty house.And it had a bad ending – most notably a family car stolen and set on fire.A...
View ArticleNation’s big-city police chiefs’ group supports SAFE Act
New York’s sheriffs have been outspoken in their opposition to the state’s new gun-control law.Now the nation’s big-city police chiefs are wading into the legal fight.And they support the SAFE...
View ArticlePartially decomposed body found in yard on East Side
A corpse, apparently partially decomposed, was found by Buffalo police in a backyard in the first block of Fisher Street Monday afternoon.Homicide Squad detectives and the Crime Scene Unit were sent...
View ArticleAppeals court upholds 2010 rape conviction
A state appeals court has upheld the conviction of Paul T. Imes, who was charged with sexually assaulting a SUNY Buffalo State student nearly five years ago.The Appellate Division of State Supreme...
View Article23 residents of Elmwood apartments need housing after fire
Most of the residents who fled a two-alarm fire in a six-story, 112-unit Elmwood Avenue apartment building Tuesday morning were able to return to their residences by the end of the day, according to...
View ArticlePolice say woman killed in drive-by shooting was Buffalo resident
The woman killed in a drive-by shooting Monday night is a 20-year-old Buffalo resident, police said this morning. Her name is expected to be released later today after her relatives are notified.A...
View ArticleFatal Wyoming County blaze ruled arson-suicide
CASTILE – The death of a 52-year-old Wyoming County woman whose body was discovered in the burnt wreckage of her Castile restaurant last October has been ruled an arson-suicide, authorities...
View ArticleMonday night’s shooting victims identified
The woman who was fatally shot during a drive-by incident Monday night at East Ferry Street and Stevens Avenue was identified by police Tuesday as Diamond J. Toler, 20. of Buffalo.Moses McCullen, 27,...
View ArticleJamestown house burglary suspect arrested
JAMESTOWN -- A 43-year-old burglary suspect was arrested early Tuesday, and Jamestown police recovered from his Jamestown home items that were allegedly stolen from a Barrett Avenue home. Johnny Nunez...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty to cocaine sales, enters treatment
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, charged with selling cocaine to a police informant on his street July 24, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Niagara County Court.Carl A. Zimmerman, 34, of Pierce Avenue,...
View ArticleLittle Valley man admits trying to choke his wife
LITTLE VALLEY – A 27-year-old Little Valley man pleaded guilty Monday before Cattaraugus County Judge Ronald D. Ploetz to attempted strangulation in the second degree for allegedly trying to choke his...
View ArticleSupreme Court overturns centerpiece of voting rights
WASHINGTON – In striking down a centerpiece of the Voting Rights Act, a divided Supreme Court on Tuesday handed Southern states and conservatives a key victory and also posed a steep challenge for...
View ArticleBody identified by police
A body found Monday afternoon in a backyard between Fisher and Erb Streets was a homicide victim identified by Buffalo police Wednesday afternoon as Rosaun D. Williams, 18, of Buffalo. The male victim...
View ArticleMan gets six months for scamming good Samaritans
A Buffalo man who scammed money from people by posing as a stranded motorist has been sentenced to six months in jail, Cheektowaga police reported Wednesday.Brian Davis, 52, of Bailey Avenue, had...
View ArticleFormer Earth Liberation Front spokesman files federal suit for information...
Leslie James Pickering knows the FBI is watching him.He wants to know how, when it will end and whether others are targeted.Pickering, a former spokesman for the press office of the Earth Liberation...
View ArticleRochester man given probation on drug charge
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas imposed five years’ probation and 100 hours of community service on a Rochester man Wednesday.Ra’kuann S. Simpson, 21, had pleaded guilty to a...
View ArticleMan admits conspiring to distribute heroin, cocaine
A 47-year-old Buffalo man pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute heroin and cocaine. Juan Montanez...
View ArticleFelon sentenced to time served for possessing gun
A 61-year-old Sanborn man was sentenced Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to time served for the 42 months he was jailed after his November 19, 2009, arrest by state troopers...
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