Buffalo teen arrested on Metro bus with loaded handgun
Buffalo police officers, with weapons drawn Wednesday, took a .22-caliber handgun with its serial number scratched off from a 16-year-old on a public bus.Charged with felony counts of criminal...
View ArticleNiagara County denied trust fund share, still seeks land
LOCKPORT – Niagara County has been denied a share of the Oppenheim Zoological Society’s trust fund, but a judge has yet to rule on whether the county may grab the 15.3-acre site of the former Oppenheim...
View ArticleRoadside utility worker killed during storm by motorist in Chautauqua County
A utility worker was killed during Wednesday’s snow storm when hit by a car in Chautauqua County, just south of the Village of Westfield.State police said that Billy J. Johnson II, of Crown City, Ohio,...
View ArticleGoat on the lam caught near Buff State
It was a goat chase. No kidding.A runaway goat led officers from several different law enforcement agencies on a frantic, hourlong chase through the Buffalo State College area Wednesday...
View ArticleBuffalo man dies of gunshot wound
A 40-year-old man has died of gunshot wounds he suffered just after 8 a.m. Thursday in the Broadway-Memorial neighborhood, according to Buffalo police.Homicide detectives were called to the shooting...
View ArticleBuffalo burglars put a crimp in holiday week
The days since Christmas were popular for burglars in Buffalo, according to police reports.In one of the most recent home invasions, an Eggert Road man said somebody smashed two doors and door frames...
View ArticleSouth Dayton man dies while logging in Chautauqua County
A South Dayton man died while logging Thursday when a rotten tree fell behind him for an unknown reason, Chautauqua County sheriff’s officials said.The incident occurred about 2:30 p.m. in a wooded...
View ArticleAmherst man sentenced to 8 years in prison for role in investment scheme
Ian Campbell Gent spent more than 40 trouble-free years in the financial industry, but he failed to use that expertise to stop a Ponzi scheme that ripped off 94 victims and depleted the life savings of...
View ArticleMasked gunmen rob Tonawanda bank
Two heavily armed gunmen wearing paintball masks robbed a Town of Tonawanda bank just before noon Saturday.The two men robbed the Evans Bank branch at 2800 Niagara Falls Blvd., near Creekside Drive, at...
View ArticleCourt papers air lurid details of Troopergate party
On a November night in 2011, a crowd of men gathered inside a motorcycle club on Buffalo’s East Side to watch a title fight on pay-per-view television. They also enjoyed the entertainment of strippers,...
View ArticleFrom the blotter / Police calls and court cases, Dec. 18 to 24
A Forest Parkway woman told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies that her Wheatfield house was burglarized while she was sleeping.The 61-year-old woman said that sometime between 1:30 and 3 p.m., someone...
View ArticleNT plans courtroom gambit as assessment irks store owner
NORTH TONAWANDA – The city is firing back against convenience store owner Muwafek S. “Moe” Rizek in the wake of his federal lawsuit accusing the North Tonawanda Police Department of stealing evidence...
View ArticleWorker pinned by wrecker while trying to winch vehicle out of ditch
A 39-year-old Westfield man was injured Saturday night when he became pinned by a wrecker he was operating as he attempted to winch a vehicle out of a ditch, according to the Chautauqua County...
View ArticleNiagara County Jail inmate dies
A Niagara County Jail inmate died Saturday afternoon after being taken to Eastern Niagara Hospital for a medical emergency, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said.Tommie Lee Jones was pronounced dead...
View ArticleMan charged with assault after stabbing woman
A Buffalo man was arrested on charges of assault and criminal possession of a weapon after he stabbed a woman, police said today.Gary Heard, 20, is accused of stabbing her during a disagreement just...
View ArticleIntruder reportedly steals money during N. Buffalo home invasion
Buffalo police are investigating a home invasion from early this morning at a home in the 200 block of Colvin Avenue.The homeowner told Buffalo police that an intruder with a hand gun entered his home...
View ArticleBuffalo Police investigate four home invasions
It’s one of the most terrifying crimes that can happen to anyone – a violent home invasion in the dead of night.And as of Sunday night, Buffalo Police were investigating four such crimes committed over...
View ArticleState judicial panel censures Family Court judge
When Erie County Family Court Judge Paul G. Buchanan went to see a suicidal 14-year-old girl in a hospital’s psychiatric unit, he gave her a book and some cookies and told her she had a lot to live...
View ArticleWrong-way driver charged with DWI on Niagara Thruway
State police say a 20-year-old Buffalo woman was drunk when she was stopped by troopers while driving the wrong way early Monday morning on the Niagara Thruway in the city.Thruway state police patrols...
View ArticleRestaurant worker robbed of bank deposits
Buffalo Police are looking for the armed bandit who robbed a female restaurant worker of about $6,000 she was trying to deposit Sunday at the Bank of American branch at Bailey and East Delavan...
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