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View ArticleMan hit by three shots in Broadway-Fillmore
A man was struck by three bullets on Lombard Street between Broadway and Paderewski Drive this morning, Buffalo police said.The victim told police he was approached by an unknown person, who fired...
View ArticlePolice identify 16-year-old who was fatally shot
Buffalo homicide detectives continue to search for the killer of a 16-year-old boy, identified by police today as Kelmyne Jones.Just before 4 p.m, Saturday, officers from the Northeast District found...
View ArticleTeen gangs’ territorial brawl ends in fatal shot
Kelmyne Jones died at 16 in a street fight that went from bad to worse. With him holding another boy in a headlock, an even younger teenager retrieved a handgun that had been tucked under a bush, and...
View ArticleElma driver, canal boater run into police trouble
Erie County deputies made DWI arrests on land and water Thursday.A driver with a blood-alcohol content more than three times the legal limit was arrested following a traffic stop in Elma, sheriff’s...
View ArticlePolice agencies charge three with aggravated DWI on Sunday
Three people were arrested for aggravated driving while intoxicated – for having a blood-alcohol level of at least 0.18 percent – in separate incidents on Western New York roadways Sunday. Erie County...
View ArticleCandle ignites Chautauqua County house fire
KENNEDY – An unattended candle left burning in the first-floor family room sparked a fire that destroyed a home in the Town of Poland on Sunday evening, Chautauqua County sheriff’s officials...
View ArticleNun with gambling habit gets 90 days in jail for stealing from two churches
The thefts weren’t just a one-time crime.Instead, they followed a long-term pattern of a Catholic nun’s systematic stealing from two churches and their parishioners.Those crimes included taking money...
View ArticleDouble trouble for Genesee County DWI suspect
Genesee County sheriff’s deputies nabbed a driving while intoxicated suspect Saturday night in the Town of Leroy – about four hours after he was arrested for DWI in a Darien Lake concert parking...
View ArticleHoskins guilty of 52 counts of animal cruelty
Beth Lynne Hoskins’ 74-count animal cruelty trial resulted in her conviction on 52 counts of animal cruelty for mistreatment of her high-end Morgan horses.But the judge’s verdict issued Monday is not...
View ArticleMan killed on Norway Park over weekend
Buffalo’s 19th and 20th homicides of the year occurred within hours of each other during what proved to be a busy holiday weekend for police homicide investigators. Ronald L. Jones, 23, of Buffalo was...
View Article10th St. Gang member gets prison for killing rival who shot cousin
When Saul Santana went looking for revenge, he found it in Anthony “Ace” Colon.It was the bloody summer of 2009, and Santana, a 10th Street Gang member, was seeking retaliation for the shooting of his...
View ArticleJudge revokes bail over defendant’s note to jury
Toward the end of the day Wednesday, with the jury preparing to recess for the holiday weekend, defendant Mohamed Taher wrote a note and held it up inside the courtroom.“Bangs are nice,” the note...
View ArticleCoast Guard rescues three in disabled boat
Three people were rescued Monday evening by the U.S. Coast Guard after their boat became disabled and began taking on water in the Niagara River not far from LaSalle Park, officials reported late...
View ArticleThree-time prisoner pleads guilty to robbery attempt
LOCKPORT – Ricky Q. Caldwell, of Niagara Falls, who has been to state prison three times, is headed back after pleading guilty to attempted third-degree robbery Monday in Niagara County...
View ArticleCourt upholds conviction in 2009 slaying in Falls
The Appellate Division of State Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the second-degree murder conviction of Tyrome L. Elder in the Nov. 7, 2009, handgun slaying of a Buffalo man.Elder, 27, of Weston...
View ArticleGunshot victim’s body found on East Side porch
Buffalo police are investigating an apparent shooting that took the life of a man in his early 20s, after the young man’s body was found on a porch Tuesday morning in the city’s Langfield...
View ArticleFour members of drug ring plead guilty to federal charges
Four more members of the Anderson Drug Trafficking Organization pleaded guilty this week to federal charges of selling cocaine in the Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood.The latest members of the...
View ArticleKensington Expressway attack leads to jail sentence
A Buffalo man will spend up to a year in jail for attacking a woman on the Kensington Expressway, Cheektowaga police announced Tuesday.Rafael A. Martinez, 56, who pleaded guilty to strangulation and...
View ArticleForty pounds of scrap aluminum stolen
LOCKPORT – Aluminum down spouts stored in front of an overhead door at a workshop/garage in the 5600 block of Niagara Street Ext. were stolen sometime between Saturday and Monday.The garage owner,...
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