Judge dismisses murder indictment
A Buffalo man who was released last month from a life prison sentence for a murder he insisted he didn’t commit returned to a Buffalo courtroom today for the official dismissal of his indictment.State...
View ArticleAuthorities charge seven in probe of Medina drug ring
Seven people have been charged with selling marijuana and prescription drugs in the Village of Medina, Orleans County authorities announced Monday. Four of them also were charged with welfare fraud,...
View ArticleTown of Tonawanda man charged with felony DWI
State Police at Boston arrested a Town of Tonawanda man for felony driving while intoxicated over the weekend and accused him of driving with a blood-alcohol level more than twice the legal...
View ArticleMan finds a burglar climbing out a window
NIAGARA FALLS – A 53-year old man called police when he spotted the silhouette of a man climbing out of his window in the 900 block of Grove Avenue at 1:25 a.m. Monday.The victim said he left at 12:30...
View ArticleLawyer’s office is burglarized
NIAGARA FALLS – A local lawyer, who provides public defender services in the city, was the victim of a break-in over the weekend.The owner of a building at 1520 Pine Ave., which houses the legal...
View ArticleDefendant in extortion case pleads guilty
On the eve of his trial, a defendant in the Local 17 extortion and racketeering case took a plea deal Monday.Jeffrey C. Lennon, a former member of the Operating Engineers union, pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleSheriff says stay off the ice
Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard is warning residents living near the Lake Erie shoreline to stay off the ice.Capt. Kevin Caffery of the sheriff’s office Air One helicopter has seen many children...
View ArticleToronto man admits trying to import ecstacy pillls
A Toronto man pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Arcara to the importation of ecstasy pills.Anthony Ighodaro, 32, was stopped on July 25, 2010 by Customs and Border...
View ArticleTheft of tree stand leads to two arrests
State Police at Boston have made two arrests in an unusual larceny – the theft of a tree stand.Last Friday afternoon, a state trooper investigated a complaint from a property owner on Bleistein Road...
View ArticleBuffalo man pleads guilty to gun violation
A Buffalo man charged with violating the state’s gun control law last year after a foot chase through an East Side neighborhood ended with the recovery of a 9 mm handgun has pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleShoplifter at Cheektowaga store sentenced to jail
A Buffalo man with a lengthy arrest record has been sentenced to five months in jail for shoplifting on Christmas Eve.David L. Washington, 63, who pleaded guilty to a charge of petit larceny, was...
View ArticleObama’s recess appointments in doubt as Supreme Court hears arguments
WASHINGTON – Several Supreme Court justices on Monday expressed grave doubts about the constitutionality of President Obama’s appointment of several members of the National Labor Relations Board –...
View ArticleProsecution rests case in trial of woman accused of fatal stabbing
LOCKPORT – The prosecution rested its case Monday in the Niagara County Court manslaughter trial of Jennifer R. Marchant, and the case could go to the jury today.Defense attorney Dominic Saraceno had...
View ArticleCourt rules worker can sue city over denial of promotion
William George claims the city repeatedly passed him over for promotion as retaliation for his refusal to contribute money to Mayor Byron W. Brown’s re-election campaigns.A federal judge has ruled his...
View ArticleThagard, mistakenly jailed in murder, says he holds no hard feelings
Jerome A. Thagard holds no hard feelings, though he lost more than 4½ years of his life in state prison for a murder he did not commit.“I want to say I’m not angry. I’m a firm believer that everything...
View ArticlePorch fire on Buffalo’s East Side leaves 3 homeless
A porch fire at an East Side house left an adult and two children homeless early today, fire officials said,The fire was reported at about 2 a.m. on the front porch and spread into the house at 42...
View ArticleEden motorist charged with DWI after crash
An Eden resident was charged with driving while intoxicated after a one-car crash Monday night on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, according to Erie County sheriff’s deputies.A report of a...
View ArticleWheatfield convenience store held up at gunpoint
A man bearing a long gun held up a River Road convenience store in Wheatfield late Monday, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies reported.The robbery occurred shortly before 10:30 p.m. at the Citgo Jolly...
View ArticleTow truck attorney allowed to remain
The prosecution’s attempt to remove defense lawyer Steven M. Cohen from the case of a local tow truck company owner accused of bribing Buffalo police officers has failed. U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B....
View Article$100,000 in counterfeit clothing seized in raid on Fruit Belt market
A raid on a Fruit Belt food store where illegal guns were thought to be on the premises Monday night ended with the confiscation of more than $100,000 in counterfeit trademark clothing in a warehouse...
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