Students evacuated from Williamsville school bus after small engine fire
A small fire in the engine of a Williamsville school bus forced the driver to evacuate the bus and move the students safely down the street in Amherst on Tuesday morning, the Main-Transit Fire...
View ArticleBus pulls away with girl's hand stuck in door
niagara falls – A school bus pulled a 6-year-old Niagara Falls girl the length of about three cars before the child’s mother got the attention of the driver, who stopped the bus, police and witnesses...
View ArticlePendleton scammer may get break in DWI cases
LOCKPORT – Joseph D. Ehrenreich, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to stealing more than $131,000 from 29 victims in a cruise sale scam, racked up his fourth driving while intoxicated conviction Tuesday in...
View ArticleLockport woman’s case dismissed after success in drug treatment
LOCKPORT – State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. Tuesday dismissed all charges against a Lockport woman who succeeded in a court-supervised drug treatment program.Genevieve A. Kowalski, 29,...
View ArticleFalls man admits stealing money from his grandfather
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty Tuesday to entering his grandfather’s Lewiston home July 6 and stealing $434 from the victim’s wallet.Brandon C. Myers, 23, whose current address is the...
View ArticleWoman’s wallet stolen at dance class in Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – Police quickly found and arrested a woman accused of taking the wallet of a woman sitting next to her as they both waited for their daughters at dance class at 6:15 p.m. Monday in the...
View ArticleOver $15,000 worth of road construction materials taken in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A Catco site superintendent told police Monday that spreaders, steel reinforcing bars and plates were stolen from a site on 60th Street at Buffalo Avenue sometime between 2:30 p.m....
View ArticleFour charged with tricking elderly victims with lottery scam
An 83-year-old Buffalo man was among those targeted nationwide by a Jamaica-based lottery scheme that promised millions of dollars in winnings, federal prosecutors charged Tuesday. Assistant U.S....
View ArticleJamestown man jailed on defaced gun and drug counts
JAMESTOWN – A 35-year-old Jamestown man who had been involved in a domestic dispute Tuesday on East 2nd Street was jailed after a brief foot chase that ended with police finding that he had a loaded...
View ArticleOlean man who sold drugs while on probation gets 5 years in prison
Arturo D. Ross Sr., 40, of Olean, has been ordered to serve two consecutive prison terms totalling five years by Cattaraugus County Judge Ronald D. Ploetz on his guilty plea to drug trafficking...
View ArticlePerry man jailed on traffic and contempt charges
WARSAW – A 45-year-old Perry man was jailed on drunken driving and a domestic violence charges after Wyoming County sheriff’s deputies tracked him down and stopped him as he was driving on Lake Street...
View ArticleJudge to rule on whether Drake must have a new attorney
LOCKPORT – More complications were added Tuesday to the wrangle over whether Robie J. Drake must have a new attorney for his third trial in two 1981 North Tonawanda slayings.Niagara County prosecutors...
View ArticleCrash fatality closes Harlem Road between William and Dingens
A bicyclist was fatally injured when struck by a car at about 7:45 p.m tonight on Harlem Road near William Street in Cheektowaga.Harlem Road between William and Dingens Street remained closed while...
View ArticleName of dead UB student released
Nicholas Arieno, 18, a native of Rochester who graduated from the Athena High School in the Rochester suburb of Greece last June was the freshman found dead in a Winspear Avenue flat Sunday,...
View ArticleUB freshman found dead in his flat is identified
The University at Buffalo freshman who was found dead Sunday in his Winspear Avenue flat was identified Tuesday as Nicholas Arieno, 18, a native of Rochester.Arieno graduated in June from Athena High...
View ArticlePolice identify Cheektowaga bicyclist killed in Harlem Road accident
A bicyclist who was fatally injured Tuesday night when he was struck by a car on Harlem Road was identified this morning as Edwin W. Stubbe Jr, 64, of Cheektowaga, police said.Stubbe was headed east...
View ArticleLancaster motorcyclist critically injured in Orchard Park collision
A motorcyclist was in critical condition at Erie County Medical Center this morning after he was involved in a collision with a car Tuesday night on Southwestern Boulevard, Orchard Park police...
View ArticleArrest made in summer Kenmore armed robbery
Kenmore police today announced the arrest of a 19-year-old man in connection with the July 25 armed robbery of a man’s cell phone.Alexander L. Daniels of the Town of Tonawanda faces robbery, weapons...
View ArticleCharges dismissed in Grant Street pot case
Drug charges have been dismissed against three men accused of possessing 16 pounds of marijuana stashed in a basement heating duct at a Grant Street business.The charges were lodged Sept. 9 against...
View ArticleDelay in Hoskins sentencing upsets DA
It’s been like leading a horse to water.Beth Lynne Hoskins’ animal cruelty case, which started in March 2010 with the SPCA raiding her Aurora horse farm and included an on-again, off-again criminal...
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