Falls man tries to run from police to evade drunken driving charges
NIAGARA FALLS – A traffic stop led to further charges after a man got out of his car and tried to run off just before 3 a.m. Tuesday in the 600 block of 69th Street.Donald E. Bracikowski, 56, of Troy...
View ArticleMan admitted to drinking 13 beers prior to being pulled over in Wilson
WILSON – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies charged a man with drunken driving after reports of reckless driving led them to a pickup being driven on the shoulder of the road at 8 p.m. Sunday in the...
View ArticleClassic car recovered, but garage destroyed in Barker fire
BARKER – A woman said she was in bed when she heard three explosions and looked outside and saw smoke and flames coming from the rear of the home’s attached garage at 5:16 a.m. Monday at 9782 Haight...
View ArticleBody recovered in Lower Niagara River
LEWISTON – An unidentified body was recovered today from the Lower Niagara River, several miles downstream from where a 23-year-old University of Buffalo student fell in at Whirlpool State Park on...
View ArticleDeported woman arrested in Buffalo, charged with illegally entering U.S.
A Canadian convicted of armed robbery in California and later deported is facing new charges of illegally reentering the United States.Elizabeth Reid, 31, was arrested on Busti Avenue in Buffalo last...
View ArticleVersailles man admits sex with underage relative
A Versailles man Monday confessed to having oral sex with an underage relative, Cattaraugus County District Attorney Lori Pettit Rieman announced. Harold R. Hunt, 39, pleaded guilty to first-degree...
View ArticleBuffalo homicides keep to their trend
Nothing seems to put a significant dent in Buffalo’s homicide rate from year to year.Not the Buffalo Police Department’s extensive efforts to break up violent gangs. Not city leaders’ tough talk about...
View ArticleNiagara Falls man accused of stealing and selling his neighbor’s...
NIAGARA FALLS – An Ashland Avenue man was arrested for allegedly stealing metal items from people’s yards and storage garages, and selling them to scrap yards.Christopher Harris, 34, was arraigned in...
View ArticleHartland man denies role in home, store burglaries
LOCKPORT – A Hartland man pleaded not guilty Tuesday in State Supreme Court to an indictment accusing him of burglarizing two homes and a convenience store.James W. Kohl, 33, of Orangeport Road,...
View ArticleLockport woman sent to prison’s drug treatment facility
LOCKPORT – A Lockport woman is headed for the state prison system’s secure drug treatment facility after pleading guilty Tuesday in Niagara County Court.Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said Paula C....
View ArticleDiversion program offered in theft from father
LOCKPORT – A former Royalton woman, whose record includes federal and local drug-related convictions, pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing her father’s credit card in February.Lexie T. Quagliano, 29,...
View ArticleJudge cites drug problem in handing out prison term
LOCKPORT – State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. noted that the arresting officer called drug dealer Kevin P. Fuller “a train wreck,” and the judge agreed Thursday as he sentenced Fuller to...
View ArticleFalls man indicted in armed home invasion
LOCKPORT – Eddie Robinson, 21, of 17th Street, Niagara Falls, was arraigned Wednesday in Niagara County Court on an indictment charging him with an armed home invasion.According to Deputy District...
View ArticleFacing deportation, ex-restaurauteur seeks to withdraw guilty plea
LOCKPORT – Filippo Inglima, the former Buffalo and Lewiston restaurant owner who is to be deported to Italy after pleading guilty to second-degree sexual abuse, sought Tuesday to be allowed to...
View ArticleWoman’s body found in Niagara gorge
NIAGARA FALLS - The body of a woman who went over the falls last weekend was recovered Wednesday afternoon, State Park Police said.The woman’s body was found in an area near the Maid of the Mist...
View ArticleCanadian man admits $18,000 scam
A Canadian man pleaded guilty Friday to using fraudulent credit and gift cards to make $18,000 in purchases at stores in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.Assistant U.S. Attorney John E. Rogowski said...
View ArticleFalls woman gets three years for stabbing two men
LOCKPORT – Three years in state prison and three years of post-release supervision was the sentence Friday for a Niagara Falls woman who stabbed two men last year.Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon...
View ArticleMan, subdued by Taser, admits to violating probation for animal cruelty
LOCKPORT – A man who was placed on probation last November for animal cruelty admitted violating its terms Friday, the day after a Niagara County sheriff’s deputy zapped him with a Taser to stop his...
View ArticleJudge bars SPCA from halting service in Falls
LOCKPORT – State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. signed an order Friday barring the SPCA of Niagara from carrying out its plan to cease dog control services in the City of Niagara Falls as...
View Article18-year-old critically injured in drive-by shooting
An 18-year-old Buffalo man was critically injured in an apparent drive-by shooting Friday afternoon, police said. The shooting occurred at Edison Avenue and Weston Avenue, just blocks from the Sun...
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