Hinsdale man arrested for impersonating state trooper
JAMESTOWN – A 37-year-old Hinsdale man was arrested by state police Friday for allegedly impersonating a state trooper in calls to the Jamestown employer of a woman he was hoping to get fired. Richard...
View ArticleMan gets two years in jail for driving stolen tow truck while drunk
A police chase through the city’s Elmwood-Forest area last summer led to a jail sentence Friday for a Town of Tonawanda man who was driving drunk in a stolen tow truck with its boom down and swinging...
View ArticleTwo-car crash ties up Scajaquada during rush hour
Buffalo police are attempting to determine if weather conditions led to a two-car crash in the westbound Scajaquada Expressway that caused a backup during Friday’s afternoon rush.The crash occurred...
View ArticlePennsylvania man pleads guilty to Falls sex crime
LOCKPORT – A man who was visiting Niagara Falls for a wedding last year pleaded guilty in Niagara County Court Friday to committing a sex crime against a Philadelphia woman in a hotel.Darryl L....
View ArticleCuster Street man charged with throwing party for underage drinkers
A 22-year-old Custer Street man was arrested on drug and criminal nuisance charges early Friday for allegedly throwing a loud party of underage drinkers in his apartment.Brandon Rivera was arrested...
View ArticleOntario man imprisoned for drug smuggling
A Canadian man who federal prosecutors said was responsible for smuggling drugs into Niagara Falls and Niagara County was sentenced this week to two years in federal prison.U.S. Chief District Judge...
View ArticleDrug dealer gets a break because of autistic children
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas decided Friday not to send a Buffalo drug dealer to prison because his wife would be left to care for four children, two of them autistic.Aaron R....
View ArticleAssociates defend man who had gun in school
Dwayne Ferguson spent more than a decade advocating for nonviolence and peace in the streets of Buffalo.He was a well-known face in the movement for the SAFE Act, the state law that made carrying a...
View ArticleLawsuit over North Tonawanda school sale dismissed
NORTH TONAWANDA – A seven-year-old lawsuit over the sale of the former Lowry Middle School was thrown out on a legal technicality Friday by the Appellate Division of State Supreme Court.The five-judge...
View ArticleWheatfield constable’s First Amendment rights weren’t...
WHEATFIELD – An appeals court ruled Friday that Town Constable Craig M. Schultz’ First Amendment rights weren’t violated in 2011 by a critical letter from a superior that was published in The Buffalo...
View ArticleOrchard Park police charge man with felony DWI
Orchard Park Police arrested a 45-year-old man on a felony drunken driving charge and violating Leandra’s Law because a child was in the vehicle.Police said officers stopped Burke W. Forster of...
View Article‘Loner’ leaves $500,000 estate to federal government, Consumer...
There’s a lot we don’t know about Robert J. Gerin.We don’t know why he moved to Niagara Falls after a period as the owner and driver of a New York City cab.We don’t know how or precisely when he...
View ArticleShoplifting spree leads to heroin charges for 4
Four Buffalo residents were arrested in a Dunkirk shopping plaza Friday after they went on a shoplifting spree, stealing merchandise valued at more than $2,000, Dunkirk police reported. The four were...
View ArticleVictim of Clarence fire identified
The woman who died in a Clarence house trailer fire Friday night has been identified as Nelsonia Voight.Fire calls went out about 7:45 p.m. Friday, and when Erie County Sheriff’s deputies and the...
View ArticleEx-teacher Solomon’s attorney loses effort to fight client’s...
LOCKPORT – The attorney for Michael J. Solomon Sr., the former music teacher whose sexual abuse conviction and 32-year prison sentence were overturned on a legal technicality, lost another round last...
View ArticleHow to halt epidemic rise in heroin use
Since last Sunday, when The Buffalo News reported on an epidemic of heroin and opiate deaths in Erie County and elsewhere in the nation, the deaths kept coming. Starting with actor Philip Seymour...
View ArticleOrchard Park police arrest drivers on drunken driving charges
Orchard Park police arrested two men on drunken-driving charges in separate incidents Friday.Police on Saturday said that Timothy J. Hourihan, 28, of West Seneca was charged with DWI after his breath...
View ArticleJamestown police make heroin arrests across from police headquarters
Jamestown police said heroin was being sold from an apartment across the street from police headquarters. Three men were arrested Friday on drug charges.Jamestown police executed a search warrant on...
View ArticlePolice arrest customer who refused to leave Buffalo bar
A Long Island man faces charges of disorderly conduct and harassment after he allegedly grabbed several women early Saturday morning at a West Chippewa Street tavern, according to Buffalo police...
View ArticleMan initially denied having gun in Buffalo school
Dwayne Ferguson, the MAD DADS Buffalo chapter president who was arrested Thursday for having a gun inside the School 97 Harvey Austin Elementary School, allegedly denied possessing the weapon when...
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