Claremont Avenue woman charged with stabbing neighbor
A 55-year-old Claremont Avenue woman was arrested for allegedly stabbing a male neighbor six times during an argument about 11 p.m. Thursday. Karen Showalter was charged with first-degree assault for...
View ArticleMan charged with drinking in car near traffic checkpoint
A 34-year-old West Delavan Avenue man was arrested for drunken driving and other counts when police found an open container of alcohol in his car at a traffic checkpoint in the first block of...
View ArticleBronx man arrested for illegally entering the country
A 44-year-old Bronx man was arrested by federal agents in Buffalo Friday and charged with fraud and misuse of immigration documents. U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. said Abdus Samad attempted to...
View ArticleTheft and drug charges lodged against woman arrested at Walmart
NIAGARA FALLS – A woman facing theft and drug charges attempted to steal 39 items from the Walmart store on Military Road Saturday night, police said. Karen Rodriguez, 30, of Crick Court, was arrested...
View ArticleBlasdell man named as Evangola drowning victim
New York State Parks Police have identified the man who drowned Saturday evening in Lake Erie off Evangola State Park as Brian J. McCluskey, 32, of Maple Avenue, Blasdell. Police said McCluskey, who...
View ArticleThief harvests landscaping equipment from bed of truck
NIAGARA FALLS – Landscaping equipment worth $2,000 was stolen from a Main Street job site on Friday afternoon, police said. The Youngstown landscaper was working at the former St. Mary’s Manor between...
View ArticleSchutrum Street man accused of raping woman in her apartment
A Schutrum Street man is charged with the rape of a Buffalo woman who was followed to her Newfield Street apartment and attacked Saturday afternoon, Buffalo police said. Jacob Lokey, 23, is charged...
View ArticleMotorcycle crash in Farmersville sends two to ECMC
FARMERSVILLE – A man and a woman from Delevan were hospitalized after their motorcycle crashed about 4 p.m. Sunday on Route 16, state police at Machias said.Troopers said Richard Kruse, 73, operator...
View ArticleTown Park shooter gets maximum after victim’s mom speaks from beyond...
A mother’s words reached out Monday to seek justice for her son, who died in a May 2011 shooting in Cheektowaga Town Park.“I pray that I live to see my son’s murderer brought to justice,” wrote...
View ArticleDelevan woman, 70, killed in motorcycle accident
FARMERSVILLE – A 70-year-old Delevan woman died of injuries sustained Sunday when she was ejected from a motorcycle that failed to negotiate a curve in the Town of Farmersville, state police in...
View ArticleMan charged with drunken driving following a crash between two all-terrain...
ROYALTON – A man injured in an all-terrain vehicle crash on Block Church Road at 9 p.m. Sunday was charged with drunken driving.Nicholas L. Criswell, 27, of Ertman Road was charged with driving while...
View ArticleElectrical wiring and copper ripped from vacant building
NIAGARA FALLS – Damage was listed at $3,000 after someone pulled out the electrical wiring and copper from an abandoned building in the 1700 block of LaSalle Avenue.PHH Mortgage Corporation told...
View ArticleVisitor reports over $2,000 in cash and clothing taken in a vehicle break-in
NIAGARA FALLS – A Canadian visitor reported his luggage, cash, clothing and merchandise from the Fashion Outlet Mall stolen while his vehicle was parked at a restaurant parking lot in the 7300 block...
View ArticleCash register stolen from business in Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – An overnight clerk at an outdoor vending site called Blooming Onion said the cash register was stolen from the stand when he walked away for a short time to take the garbage to the...
View ArticleDrug buy goes bad
NIAGARA FALLS – A Ransomville woman told police she was assaulted by a man when she went to a house to buy drugs Sunday.The 22-year-old victim was found by police at 7 p.m. Sunday in the 400 block of...
View ArticleTeen bike rider remains in critical condition
Jacob Murphy, the 15-year-old Town of Tonawanda boy struck by a car as he rode his bicyclist on Niagara Falls Boulevard late in the afternoon of Aug. 19 remains in critical condition at Women and...
View ArticleBarn fire in Darien early today remains under investigation
The $50,000 fire that destroyed a cinder block barn on Bennett Road in the Town of Darien early today remains under investigation by the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office. At about 2;12 a.m. today a...
View ArticleBuffalo man charged with burglary at Fashion Outlets
LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man was arraigned Monday in Niagara County Court on an indictment charging him with stealing more than $1,000 worth of merchandise from a store in the Fashion Outlets of Niagara...
View ArticleCareer criminal headed back to prison
LOCKPORT – Ricky Q. Caldwell is making his fifth trip to state prison in the past 30 years, this time for pulling a knife on a dollar store clerk who tried to prevent him from shoplifting two bags of...
View ArticlePembroke judge accused of obstructing state audit targeting daughter
The justice of Pembroke Town Court was suspended last week, and his cases were reassigned, according to the state’s Commission on Judicial Conduct.Justice Robert E. Alexander, who also served as Corfu...
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