Niagara County settles lawsuit over 2005 fatal crash in Newfane
LOCKPORT – Attorneys for Niagara County feared that taking a lawsuit over a fatal pickup truck crash to trial might result in a big damage award for the widow of the Newfane man who died in the wreck....
View ArticleMan stabbed on LaSalle Avenue
A man reportedly in his mid-20s remained in critical condition Thursday night in Erie County Medical Center after he was stabbed in the 600 block of LaSalle Avenue about 4:30 p.m.Police were searching...
View ArticleGood Samaritan credited with helping save injured teen
State Police are crediting an unidentified Good Samaritan with applying a tourniquet that helped control the bleeding of a teen who suffered a potential life-threatening arm laceration when the Jeep...
View ArticleAnother pedestrian killed crossing Niagara Falls Boulevard
In almost exact circumstances, a second 49-year-old woman was killed this morning crossing Niagara Falls Boulevard at Willow Ridge Drive at the Amherst-Town of Tonawanda border.The Buffalo woman,...
View ArticleThree separately indicted in bank robbery cases
Three Buffalo men were separately indicted by a grand jury for bank robbery, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced Friday. Each faces a maximum of 20 years in prison and $250,000 in...
View ArticleBuffalo police launch 'campaign of shame,' post prostitution arrest photos...
Men arrested for patronizing prostitutes in Buffalo will soon get some unwanted attention.Their mug shots and names will be posted on the Police Department's website and made available to the media...
View ArticleWoman pleads guilty to drug sale, enters treatment program
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda woman admitted in State Supreme Court Friday that she sold the painkiller oxymorphone to a police informant last year.Susan L. Fogarty, 42, of Oliver Street, pleaded...
View ArticleGirl, 17, charged with stabbing ex-boyfriend who remains in critical condition
A 17-year-old Buffalo girl was arrested Friday in the stabbing of a 24-year-old man identified as an ex-boyfriend in their LaSalle Avenue apartment. Ha’Sha Foster faces assault and weapons charges in...
View ArticleMetro Bus driver tips off police after spotting missing Buffalo woman
Sharon Lewis, the Bickford Avenue woman missing since last Saturday, was found safe at Kensington and Thatcher avenues about 3:45 p.m. Friday.A Metro Bus driver recognized the woman and contacted...
View ArticleJudge rules against former UB basketball coach suing NCAA
Tim Cohane, the former University at Buffalo basketball coach whose 10-year legal battle with the NCAA has garnered national attention, has lost again.A federal judge has recommended dismissing...
View ArticleGirl who ran away from Falls emergency shelter located Friday
NIAGARA FALLS – A 15-year-old girl who had run away from the Casey House, the emergency short-term shelter for boys and girls ages 12 to 17, was located Friday, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office...
View ArticleMan charged will dodging tax law in sale of cigarettes
A Parkdale Avenue man was arrested for selling untaxed Indian-made cigarettes in the 300-block of Main Street about 2:30 p.m. Friday, police said. Juan Payton, 54. was charged with attempting to evade...
View ArticleMan tied to bar fracas accused of being combative in jail
A Hertel Avenue man was arrested after he refused to leave Mulligan’s Brick Bar on Allen Street, then became combative in the Buffalo police lockup about 1:30 a.m. Friday. Marc Madden, 37, faces...
View ArticleWoman shot in foot at birthday party
A birthday party on Freund Street was interrupted early Saturday morning by a gunshot, Buffalo police said.A woman was shot in the foot while at a birthday party for her mother that lasted until 3:15...
View ArticleLaptop robber flees on pink bicycle
A laptop was forcibly taken from a woman walking on Merrimac Street in the University Heights neighborhood Friday afternoon, officials said.She was walking home and was robbed at the corner of Bruce...
View ArticlePolice arrest teen after five-mile chase
After a five-mile chase with police, a Silver Lake teenager was arrested early Saturday morning for stealing a car, the Arcade Police Department reported.The vehicle sped away when police tried to...
View ArticleAlert employees in Sanborn foil theft of $400 steel plate
SANBORN – Two employees returning from their lunch break are credited with foiling the theft of scrap metal on Friday, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said.The employees spotted a car behind the CFI...
View ArticleMan accused of attempt to steal copper wire stopped in his tracks
NIAGARA FALLS – A Lewiston man who returned to his Niagara Avenue property Friday afternoon discovered a thief snipping the copper wires leading to his electric meter. Police said that the thief, who...
View ArticleFive firefighters injured battling three house fires
Five Buffalo firefighters suffered injuries while battling three house fires early Saturday – one a three-alarm fire in the city’s Broadway-Fillmore neighborhood, followed by a blaze on the city’s...
View ArticleLockport property owner wins lawsuit over city auction
LOCKPORT – Daryl Ubiles, a Lockport man who sued the city after it rejected two of his winning bids at last year’s tax foreclosure auction and refused to return his deposits, scored a victory in State...
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