Downtown bar shut down in wake of shooting
The State Liquor Authority has revoked the license of a downtown bar where a fight early on New Year’s Day led to a shooting outside the establishment, Mayor Byron W. Brown announced Friday.“I think...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in cocaine possession case
LOCKPORT – Claude J. Wilson, 35, of LaSalle Avenue, Niagara Falls, pleaded guilty in Niagara County Court Friday to having had two baggies of cocaine when Falls police checked him out in a parked car...
View ArticleAkron man pleads guilty in Pendleton DWI case
LOCKPORT – Anthony J. Brough, 49, of Main Street, Akron, pleaded guilty Friday to felony driving while intoxicated before State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr.Brough was pulled over by a...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to two felonies in domestic assault
LOCKPORT – Terrill D. Pettway, 23, of Ely Avenue, Niagara Falls, pleaded guilty Friday to two felonies stemming from a July 4 incident with his ex-girlfriend and her 6-year-old daughter.Pettway...
View ArticleGasport man jailed for not obtaining sex counseling
LOCKPORT – A man who violated probation in a sexual misconduct case by not obtaining proper sex offender treatment was sentenced to a year in Niagara County Jail Friday by County Judge Sara Sheldon...
View ArticleBurglar sentenced to prison for breaking into women’s shelter
A felon who broke into a battered women’s shelter was sentenced Friday to eight and a half years in prison.A jury in August convicted Ernest Brown, 30, of Buffalo of second-degree burglary.Erie County...
View ArticleChaffee man faces multiple charges after fleeing crash scene
JAVA – A Chaffee man faces driving while intoxicated, leaving the scene and other traffic charges following an incident late Thursday on Chaffee Road in the town of Java, according to Wyoming County...
View ArticleBurglar hits Clarendon Place home
A burglar broke into a home in an exclusive Buffalo neighborhood and made off with thousands of dollars of loot, according to Buffalo Police reports.A resident on Clarendon Place told police that the...
View ArticleTwo charged after meth bust in Newfane
Two Niagara County men face felony drug charges after a raid Friday that uncovered methamphetamine and a .22-caliber handgun in the town of Newfane, Niagara County sheriff’s officials reported. Sean...
View ArticleInadmissible evidence results in dropping of teacher’s drug charge
A drug charge against an East Aurora High School teacher has been dropped at the request of a prosecutor.Ryan J. Ellis, 36, a high school technology teacher and golf coach, was arrested Dec. 3 after...
View ArticleEight guns stolen from 72nd Street home in Niagara Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – Eight guns, including shotguns, rifles and a muzzleloader, were stolen from a bedroom closet in a 72nd Street last week.The weapons were described as brown/camouflage, 12-gauge...
View ArticleMachete wielded in robbery of pizza deliveryman
Thieves displayed a large machete before robbing a pizza deliveryman of almost $200 worth of food and cash late Friday night in the city’s Bailey-Genesee area, Northeast District police said.The...
View ArticleStabbing victim suffers puncture wound in robbery attempt
A Buffalo man who suffered a deep puncture wound in a stabbing late Friday night has been treated and released from Erie County Medical Center, authorities said.Darrel Gibson told South District...
View ArticleFire forces 13 residents from Amherst senior-care home
Thirteen residents were evacuated from their senior-care community late Friday night when a fire broke out in a bathroom ceiling fan, Amherst fire officials said.Firefighters responded to the 9:32...
View ArticleFire damages vacant house in Hartland
HARTLAND – A fire late Friday night damaged the roof and part of a vacant house in the Town of Hartland, Niagara County sheriff’s officials said.A passerby spotted the flames at 2370 Quaker Road and...
View ArticleSuspected Molotov cocktail found in car of man ejected from bar
OLCOTT – A Molotov cocktail was discovered in the car of a man who had been ejected from a Main Street bar early Saturday, authorities said.Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies said they went to Time Out...
View ArticleLaSalle-area man accused of threat to teenage girl at coin laundry
NIAGARA FALLS – A LaSalle-area man was arrested shortly after 3:30 p.m. Friday after police said he threatened a girl with a knife in a Niagara Falls Boulevard coin laundry.Mason M. Smith, 21, of 74th...
View ArticleThief confronted atn store pulls out a handgun
An employee at a Buffalo store was threatened with a handgun when he confronted a thief Friday.The incident occurred about 8:30 p.m. at 2589 Bailey Ave., police said.The thief displayed a handgun when...
View ArticleMan hit in the face with beer vbottle outside nightclub
A man told Buffalo police he was smashed in the head and face with a beer bottle outside a Chippewa Street nightclub early Saturday.The attack appened about 3:45 a.m. outside Indulge bar and nightclub...
View ArticleTrial tracks spread of sex trafficking to suburban sites
When people hear tales of young women and underage girls forced into prostitution, they think of places like Malaysia and South Africa, not Amherst and Cheektowaga.But it was in Buffalo’s suburbs...
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