Two firefighters injured in Allentown blaze
Two firefighters were taken to a hospital with injuries suffered fighting a blaze Tuesday evening in a two-story mixed-use apartment and commercial building in Buffalo’s Allentown neighborhood. Their...
View ArticleMotorist who violated Orchard Park travel ban charged with DWI
A motorist pulled over late Tuesday for violating the travel ban in Orchard Park was arrested on multiple charges – including aggravated driving while intoxicated, police reported this morning.Marilyn...
View ArticleOfficials identify man killed in Niagara Falls fire
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls police have identified Thomas R. Bozek, 57, as the man who was killed in a fire early Tuesday morning in his apartment on the upper floor of 536 26th St. Three people...
View ArticleSuspect in Amherst Target fire pleads not guilty
A man accused of setting a fire that caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage to a Target store last summer in Amherst pleaded not guilty at his arraignment Wednesday.The judge ordered him...
View ArticleSentencing delayed in Inglima sex case
LOCKPORT – Sentencing on a sex charge against former Hertel Avenue and Lewiston restaurateur Filippo Inglima was delayed for a month Wednesday to try to avoid conflicts with his federal sentencing on...
View ArticleEggs and a damaged bumper cause thousands in damage at car dealership in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – The manager at Steve Baldo Ford at 6080 Niagara Falls Boulevard told police that sometime between 8 p.m. Monday and 8 a.m. Tuesday someone threw eggs at several vehicles in the used...
View ArticleTown supervisor’s criminal case reassigned after Kloch recuses himself
LOCKPORT – The criminal case against Town of Niagara Supervisor Steven C. Richards has been reassigned after State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. recused himself, court officials said...
View ArticleTwo men in custody and third being sought for street robbery
Two Breckenridge Street men are being held and a third suspect is being sought in connection with the armed robbery of $150 from a man at Congress Street and Lafayette Avenue about 6:30 p.m. Tuesday....
View ArticleVeteran Canadian detective sent to prison for tips to Hells Angels
Frank Dean Rudge, a disgraced former detective for the Niagara Regional Police, was described Wednesday as committing crimes “analogous to treason” for passing secret police documents on to members of...
View ArticleMarilla mobile home fire determined to be accidental
Fire that caused an undisclosed amount of damage to a woman’s mobile home at 126 Bush Garden in Marilla about noon today has been determined to have been accident, according to the Erie County...
View ArticleMarchant manslaughter trial under way
LOCKPORT – A neighbor saw Jennifer Marchant and her boyfriend Ralph D. Stone Jr. “giggling and smiling” about 10 minutes before Marchant stabbed Stone to death, Assistant District Attorney Lisa M....
View ArticleThornton Avenue man arrested on handgun charge
A 22-year-old Thornton Avenue man was arrested on a felony weapons charge when police found him walking out of his driveway with a .38-caliber semi-automatic handgun in his jacket pocket about 10:35...
View ArticleFour children and two women trapped in a fire rescued in Middleport
MIDDLEPORT – As thick smoke poured from a burning, two-story apartment building, the Middleport police chief and a Niagara County sheriff’s deputy rescued four children as their mother handed each...
View ArticleAttempt to thaw pipes with torpedo heater blamed for South Buffalo house fire
Frozen pipes in a South Buffalo home turned out to be more than an annoyance late Wednesday night when a propane-fueled “torpedo” heater a resident was using to thaw the pipes touched off a two-alarm...
View ArticlePolice identify man fatally shot Sunday night in Black Rock
Dustin Ortiz Maldonado, 27, has been identified as the man fatally shot in Black Rock late Sunday night, police said Thursday. His identity had been withheld pending notification of his relatives....
View ArticleBuffalo man pleads guilty to three bank robberies
A Buffalo man admitted Thursday before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to robbing three banks last summer.Jason Berg, 22, pleaded guilty to robbing First Niagara Bank at 1000 Elmwood Ave. in...
View ArticleMan accused in wife’s murder allowed to get fourth attorney
A Buffalo man who admitted fatally beating his wife got another adjournment Friday to give him time to hire a new attorney and file a motion to withdraw his guilty plea.Antoine Mattox last week told...
View ArticleMan found in a restaurant’s outdoor food storage shed says he was...
NEWFANE – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies weren’t buying the excuses of a man found rifling through frozen food in an outside storage shed at Cafora’s Restaurant just before 9 p.m. Tuesday on South...
View ArticleA discarded receipt is used to get cash for bus fare
NIAGARA FALLS – A Niagara Falls man said he cashed in some stolen merchandise, using a discarded receipt, to obtain cash for bus fare at a Sally Beauty Supply store in the 7200 block of Niagara Falls...
View ArticleFamily is alerted to a break-in on Facebook
LOCKPORT – A woman said she got a message on Facebook that someone had broken in to her grandmother’s apartment on Lincoln Avenue on Wednesday.Niagara County sheriff’s deputies responded the apartment...
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