Albion woman struck by pickup escapes serious injury
An Albion woman escaped serious injury Tuesday night after being struck by a vehicle in the Town of Shelby, Orleans County sheriff’s officials said.Amber S. Holloway, 22, was crossing Maple Ridge Road...
View ArticleKitchen fire damages East Side apartment building
A kitchen fire Wednesday afternoon caused $100,000 damage to a six-floor apartment building on the city’s East Side, Buffalo fire officials said.Firefighters were called at 4:11 p.m. to the God City...
View ArticleGunfire claims 2014’s first homicide victim in Buffalo
A 25-year-old woman struck by gunfire early Wednesday while her vehicle was stopped at a red light became Buffalo’s first homicide victim of 2014, police spokesman Michael DeGeorge said.The woman was...
View ArticleMan shot in the hip in Dunkirk
DUNKIRK – A man suffered a non-life threatening injury when he was shot early on New Year’s Day, according to police.Dunkirk officers at 4 a.m. responded to the 400 block of Swan Street, where they...
View ArticleConvicted killer given time to hire new lawyer in bid to withdraw guilty plea
A Buffalo man who said his defense lawyer coerced him into pleading guilty last fall to killing his wife succeeded today in adjourning his sentencing a second time. Antoine Mattox now has time to hire...
View ArticleDerby man killed in New Year’s Day accident in Hamburg
Hamburg Police have identified the driver of a car who was killed when his vehicle struck a tree Wednesday on Lakeshore Road.Robert M. Voelker, 58, of Derby, was pronounced dead at the scene of the...
View ArticleFalls man stopped for speeding, charged with having loaded guns
NIAGARA FALLS – A traffic stop led to drunken driving charges and several. loaded and stolen guns charges at 2:45 a.m. Wednesday on Seventh Street.State Police stopped Jackie R. Berry, 24, of Niagara...
View ArticleOrchard Park road rage leads to arrest
A 41-year-old Hamburg man driving a pickup truck was arrested for what State Police described as a road rage incident on State Route 219 in the Town of Orchard Park about 1:20 p.m. Tuesday. William C....
View ArticleTwo WNY men arrested for promoting sex by a minor
A Stockton man and a Dunkirk man, both 23, have been arrested by the State Police on felony and misdemeanor charges for allegedly exchanging sexually explicit test messages and photographs of a naked...
View ArticleWest Side man arrested in alleged assault
A 27-year-old West Ferry Street man was arrested for allegedly choking and assaulting a man during an incident in the 900 block of West Ferry about 9:30 a.m. today. Brian C. Wetzler was charged with...
View ArticleTwo passengers hurt, driver ticketed in Sherman accident
SHERMAN – Two passengers were injured and a 20-year-old Pennsylvania driver was ticketed after his car slid down a snow embankment and into a field when he failed to stop Wednesday at the intersection...
View ArticleNiagara sex offender denies bail-jumping charge
LOCKPORT – Paul S. Turley, who was convicted in absentia of molesting his stepdaughter and stepniece, pleaded not guilty Thursday to a new indictment accusing him of first-degree bail jumping.Turley,...
View Article$690,000 awarded to woman, 20, who was molested by N. Tonawanda teacher in...
NORTH TONAWANDA – A 20-year-old Amherst woman who came forward a decade after the fact to assert she was molested by her third-grade teacher in North Tonawanda has settled her lawsuit against the...
View ArticleGenesee County woman who wandered away from home found dead
BYRON – The extreme cold has claimed the life of a Town of Byron woman who wandered away from her home Thursday night, the Genesee County Sheriff’s Office reported this morning.Authorities said...
View ArticleTeen sentenced to 25 to life for brutal North Buffalo murder
A judge today gave Demetrius Huff the maximum prison sentence for the brutal slaying of a teenager who was stabbed 54 times in a wooded area near Colvin Avenue in North Buffalo before Huff set his...
View ArticleTractor trailer hauling helicopter rolls over on Thruway at Pembroke
A tractor trailer hauling a Mercy Flight helicopter rolled over on the eastbound Thruway in the Town of Pembroke this morning, State Police said.Authorities were still on the scene of the accident...
View ArticleJudge rips Tuscarora man jailed for felony DWI
LOCKPORT – “You’re a deceptive human being,” Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said Friday as she cataloged the various efforts to evade probation rules attempted by Harry R. Jacobs III, an...
View ArticleMan sent to prison for string of downtown burglaries
A man who was on parole on a burglary conviction when he broke into five downtown businesses during a four-month period last year was sentenced Friday to 3½ to seven years in prison.Erie County Judge...
View ArticleBailey Avenue man gets 15 years in hammer attack on neighbor
A Buffalo man who attacked his downstairs neighbor with a hammer in the victim’s apartment, then stole cash and dozens of DVDs from his collection to get money to buy cocaine has received the maximum...
View ArticleMan accused of hiding crack cocaine in leg cast
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who, according to police, allegedly hid a quarter-ounce of crack cocaine in a cast on his leg, was arraigned Friday in Niagara County Court.Michael A. Lorraine, 26, of...
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