Judge’s error produces mistrial for Lockport ‘sign guy’
LOCKPORT – The judge made a mistake, the defense attorney called him on it, and the result was an instant mistrial Monday in the case of a Town of Lockport business owner charged with violating the...
View ArticleViolent domestic abuser being put into van escapes
A 48-year-old Ashland Avenue man escaped from officials Monday afternoon as he was being put into a van outside 25 Delaware Ave. to be driven to a Delaware County rehabilitation center for a year of...
View ArticleSheriff’s dispatcher pleads guilty to vehicular assault
An Erie County sheriff’s dispatcher has pleaded guilty to first-degree vehicular assault for plowing into two pedestrians while driving his pickup truck at a high speed in April.Thomas A. Gilray Jr.,...
View ArticleECMC ends lockdown imposed after call of man with gun
Erie County Medical Center was in a lockdown this morning after receiving a call of a man with a gun in one of the facility’s buildings, according to Buffalo police.Buffalo police conducted a search...
View ArticleGroup fighting Maid of Mist construction takes suit to federal court
A group that has taken legal action in state court to try to block construction of a boat dock and storage facility in the Niagara Gorge for the Maid of the Mist has taken its fight to federal...
View ArticleTwo dozen arrested and 57 cited for underage drinking at Lil’ Wayne...
Twenty-four people were arrested on various charges and 57 others ticketed for underage drinking Tuesday at the Lil’ Wayne concert at the Darien Lake Performing Arts Center, the Genesee County...
View ArticleState police investigate fourth robbery at Sanborn gas station
SANBORN – A gas station convenience store on Saunders Settlement Road has been held up for a fourth time since March, police said.The latest armed robbery at Sanborn Family Mart, a Valero gas station,...
View ArticleCareer criminal facing many more years in prison
A burglar who has spent 22 of the past 30 years in prison faces a lengthy prison term after being convicted of four burglary counts, the Erie County District Attorney’s Office announced...
View ArticleMan, 44, killed in double shooting on Fillmore Avenue
A 44-year-old man was killed in a double shooting Tuesday night on Fillmore Avenue, Buffalo police announced this afternoon.The shooting occurred just after 9:30 p.m. in the 1000 block of Fillmore...
View ArticleWeapons charge gets convicted felon year in Cattaraugus County Jail
LITTLE VALLEY – Justice L. Safford, 33, of Allegany, who was convicted two years ago of an assault in Olean, was ordered this week by Cattaraugus County Court Judge Ronald D. Ploetz to spend the next...
View ArticleMotorist enters police checkpoint – drinking a beer
As far as DWI arrests go, you might say it was like shooting fish in a barrel.State Police said a 56-year-old Buffalo man was arrested Tuesday as he entered a road check in the city – while drinking a...
View ArticleFalls mill owners file $50 million lawsuit over radioactive soil
The owners of a new paper mill in Niagara Falls have taken former owners of their property to court, claiming the former owners are responsible for radioactive contamination found while clearing the...
View ArticleJudge refuses to overturn Lockport man’s rape conviction
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas rejected an effort to cancel a Lockport man’s rape conviction Wednesday.The judge said she lacked authority to overturn the jury’s findings on...
View ArticleNiagara County deputies investigate driver with police gear
LEWISTON – A man dressed in black, driving an older black Ford Crown Victoria sedan with a prisoner cage on the window, similar to an unmarked police car, was stopped and cited by Niagara County...
View ArticleMan arrested after assault on woman at Hertel Avenue tavern
A man who assaulted a woman at the Shadow Lounge on Hertel Avenue and later threatened her with a handgun and stole a car was arrested Wednesday evening, Buffalo police said.Daniel Flitt, who has...
View ArticleChild abuse investigation leads to animal cruelty arrests in Gainesville
WARSAW – A visit to a Gainesville home led to animal cruelty charges, after a cage containing sick and dead puppies was seen on the front porch, according to State Police.Troopers went to the home of...
View ArticleMan robbed in front of his Shuele Avenue house
A man was robbed Wednesday night in front of his house on Schuele Avenue at the corner of Scajaquada Street, police said.The man was sitting in his car just before 11 p.m., authorities said, when...
View ArticleBuffalo jury awards $3 million to worker’s estate
The estate of Lee Bernard Holdsworth of Hamburg, who was diagnosed with asbestos-caused mesothelioma in February 2012, about 11 months before he died at age 74, has been awarded a jury verdict of $3...
View ArticleEx-restaurateur from Wheatfield faces deportation to Italy after sex abuse...
LOCKPORT – Filippo Inglima, the former owner of restaurants in Buffalo and Lewiston who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a teenage girl, is likely to be deported to Italy after a Niagara County...
View ArticleWoman suffers serious injuries on QEW in Fort Erie
FORT ERIE, Ont. – A woman who suffered severe and possibly life-threatening head injuries was taken to Buffalo’s Erie County Medical Center after the motorcycle on which she was a passenger collided...
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