Victim of stomping listed in critical condition at ECMC
A Riverside man has been charged with the stomping attack on a man critically injured during a fight Friday in the 500 block of Ontario Street, Buffalo police said.Joseph Watkins, 30, of South Lane,...
View ArticleBlaze at vacant house will lead to demolition
NIAGARA FALLS - A vacant Pierce Avenue home went up in flames early this morning.The blaze at 1149 Pierce was reported at 4:11 a.m., the Niagara Falls Fire Department said.Damages to the 2 1/2-story...
View ArticleWrongful death suit filed in Falls hit-and-run
LOCKPORT – A wrongful death lawsuit was filed earlier this month on behalf of the two small children left behind by a Niagara Falls woman who was killed by a hit-and-run driver last year.The suit was...
View ArticleMan robbed of computer he advertised for sale on the Internet
An attempt to sell a computer through an Internet advertisement resulted in the robbery of University District resident, according to Northeast District police reports.The victim, who lives on...
View ArticleArrest made after stabbing in Buffalo
A man who listed his address as a drop-in shelter for the homeless in Buffalo was charged with stabbing a fellow resident, Central District officers reported Sunday.Damon W. Gatti, 42, was charged...
View ArticleBuffalo man discovers burglaries upon release from jail
A Buffalo man who was just released from jail said he was the victim of a couple of burglaries while he was behind bars, Ferry-Fillmore District officers reported Sunday.A 33-year-old man told...
View ArticleWrongful death suit filed in fatal Niagara Falls hit-and-run
LOCKPORT – A wrongful death lawsuit was filed earlier this month on behalf of the two small children left behind by a Niagara Falls woman who was killed by a hit-and-run driver last year.The suit was...
View ArticleDepew woman pleads guilty to stealing $90,000 from hockey club and area...
When Teresa A. Fusani entered a guilty plea Monday in a barely audible voice to pilfering $90,000 from a youth hockey club, she joined a growing list of bookkeepers and other people entrusted with...
View ArticleToohey sentenced for embezzling from Senecas
Timothy Toohey’s fall from power, a decade-long decline marked by tax evasion and embezzlement convictions, ended Monday with the former Democratic Party insider going to federal prison for a second...
View ArticleBuffalo firefighters battle three blazes overnight
Buffalo firefighters responded to three house fires from Sunday night into early Monday morning, two of them at vacant structures on the East Side and one in an occupied residence in South Buffalo.The...
View ArticleTwo indicted on sex trafficking charges
A federal grand jury has returned a nine-count indictment charging a man and a woman from Buffalo with sex trafficking.The indictment charges Kenneth White, 37, with conspiracy to commit sex...
View Article2 Rochester men charged in drug sale
ALBION – Two Rochester men were charged with selling drugs after police seized 40 bags of heroin and a quarter ounce of crack cocaine during an investigation into drug dealing in Albion.The drugs were...
View ArticleHamburg woman sentenced in tax scheme
A Hamburg woman who confessed her involvement in a tax scheme that earned her and a co-conspirator $60,961 in fraudulent tax returns was sentenced Monday to time served and ordered to pay restitution...
View ArticleMan on way to Drug Court busted for possession
It you are due in Buffalo City Drug Court, it is never a good idea to bring illegal drugs.That’s a lesson one defendant was left to contemplate Monday.Richard E. Thibault, at the last minute,...
View ArticleWoman’s burned body found in car in Broadway-Bailey neighborhood
The charred remains of a woman were found inside a burning car early this morning when Buffalo firefighters were called to the Broadway-Bailey neighborhood.The woman has not been identified. An...
View ArticleGrand jury to review three-vehicle downtown wreck case
A grand jury review is scheduled in the criminal case against a 22-year-old Niagara Falls man identified as the motorist responsible for a police chase that ended in a three-vehicle crash that injured...
View ArticleIraq veteran with drug problem gets 12½ years in burglary spree
A man who admitted using drugs as he moved from military life in Iraq to civilian life in Amherst was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison Monday in a federal weapons case linked to a string of...
View ArticleMan injured in Chautauqua County crash
MAYVILLE – A 65-year-old Jamestown man was airlifted to a Pennsylvania hospital following a one-car accident in the Chautauqua Town of Ellery, sheriff’s deputies reported today.Calvin B. Olson was...
View ArticleIntruders entered unlocked Amherst homes this morning, police report
Three burglaries were reported this morning in the Town of Amherst, where intruders entered homes through unlocked doors, police said.Two of the homes, on Miller Road, were entered while their...
View ArticleEx-sheriff’s dispatcher sent to prison for injuring two in DWI accident
A former Erie County sheriff’s dispatcher was sentenced Tuesday to one to three years in prison for plowing into two pedestrians as he was driving his pickup truck at a high rate of speed last April...
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