Boy accused in killing had been suspended from school on gun allegation
The 14-year-old Waterfront School student charged with killing 16-year-old Kelmyne J. Jones Jr. two weekends ago was suspended from school for five days based on allegations that he carried a handgun...
View ArticleN.Y. City-area officers assist Buffalo police in chase, arrest
Unlikely law enforcement bedfellows joined forces Monday evening to nab two armed robbers fleeing the scene of an East Side pharmacy holdup in a stolen taxi, authorities said Tuesday. Police officers...
View ArticleAlleged dealer faces trial for fatal overdose of heroin-fentanyl
By all accounts, Robert Runfola died quickly.It was late May, and Runfola was at his home on Delaware Avenue using a new heroin-fentanyl cocktail that had recently hit the streets of Western New...
View ArticleGroup playing hoops at Shoshone Park robbed at gunpoint
Gun-toting robbers made off with more than $1,000 in cash and merchandise after threatening a group of people playing late-night basketball in Shoshone Park just after midnight Tuesday, police said....
View ArticleCharles Tubbins exonerated in 2012 murder of Rashiene Carson in Buffalo
A judge Wednesday dismissed a murder charge and other counts against a Buffalo man after DNA evidence from the scene exonerated him. And DNA evidence led to another man’s being charged.Erie County...
View ArticleMayoral hopefuls heading to anti-violence summit
Two county legislators are hosting a summit tonight to discuss violence in the city, but it’s two other politicians who might steal the show. Democratic mayoral candidate Bernard A. Tolbert said the...
View ArticleFormer Attica inmate wins $150,000 suit
A federal court jury awarded $150,000 to a former Attica inmate who accused two prison guards of violating his constitutional rights by denying him food.The jury found the conduct of the two guards,...
View ArticleFormer trooper loses race discrimination suit
A former trooper has lost his race discrimination case against the State Police.A federal judge ruled Tuesday that James W. Talford failed to prove that the State Police’s use of his mugshot – he was...
View ArticleBuffalo woman pleads guilty in money laundering
A Buffalo woman pleaded guilty to a money laundering charge Wednesday before U.S Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio.Danielle Barton, 31, is the latest of 18 defendants to be convicted as part of a...
View ArticleAdmitted drug dealer seeks names of informants
LOCKPORT – Loretta J. Everett, a 64-year-old diabetic who pleaded guilty to selling her painkillers, asked Wednesday that the names of “the people who ruined my life” be turned over to her.Niagara...
View ArticleFalls man indicted on Lockport drug charges
LOCKPORT – George M. Stephens, whose Jan. 17 arrest was one of the triggers for the proclamation of an anti-crime “impact zone” in central Lockport, was arraigned on a six-count indictment Wednesday...
View ArticleMiddleport man imprisoned for indecent photos on his cellphone
LOCKPORT – David L. Vercruysse, 39, of Main Street, Middleport, was sentenced Wednesday to 1 1/2 to three years in state prison for having photos of a naked adolescent girl on his cellphone.Niagara...
View ArticlePembroke justice, daughter charged in missing Corfu court money
Pembroke Town Justice Robert E. Alexander and his daughter, Brandi A. Watts, were arrested after a state audit found $10,000 missing in Corfu village court, State Police reported Wednesday.Alexander...
View ArticleGuilty plea to meth lab gets man treatment program
LOCKPORT – Jeffrey M. Budde, who was arrested May 10 as Niagara County sheriff’s deputies shut down a methamphetamine lab on Ruhlman Road in Lockport, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Niagara County...
View ArticleLockport police search for body in canal comes up empty
LOCKPORT – Lockport police searched for a possible body Wednesday in the Erie Canal after hikers found a pool of blood on the ground, a sharp implement and a suicide note in a notebook Tuesday night...
View ArticleBatavia man pleads guilty to Leandra’s Law DWI
LOCKPORT – A Batavia man pleaded guilty Wednesday in Niagara County Court to aggravated driving while intoxicated under the terms of Leandra’s Law, which prescribes extra penalties for driving drunk...
View ArticleConvicted child molester is denied reduced bail in Lockport case
LOCKPORT – Andrew K. Peyatt, a Lockport native now living in West Virginia, has a 1991 conviction in that state for molesting two 6-year-olds, a Niagara County prosecutor said in court Wednesday as...
View ArticleBuffalo man slain while riding bicycle on Keystone
A man was shot and killed while riding a bicycle on the city’s East Side Wednesday night, Buffalo police reported.The shooting took place around 7:30 p.m. on the 100 block of Keystone Avenue near...
View ArticleFormer TSA officer pleads guilty to drug-related charges
A former Transportation Security Administration officer accused of being a drug dealer on the side pleaded guilty, as charged, Thursday morning to multiple counts of criminal sale and possession of a...
View ArticleJudge brokers contract extension between SPCA and Niagara Falls
LOCKPORT – Niagara Falls Mayor Paul A. Dyster said Thursday that the city needs to have much more financial detail from the SPCA of Niagara before he will submit a six-month contract extension to the...
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