Deputy arrests Wales man for DWI on Route 400
A Wales man was arrested Friday night on the Aurora Expressway in Elma by an Erie County sheriff’s deputy, who charged him with driving while intoxicated.The deputy responded to a report of a vehicle...
View ArticleOne dead in Amherst apartment fire
The occupant of an Amherst apartment building died in a fire that caused a partial roof collapse and more than $1 million in damage early today.Firefighters were called to the eight-unit complex at...
View ArticleMan shot during fight in parking lot
A man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg late Saturday during a fight in the University Plaza parking lot at 3500 Main Street, Amherst police reported.Police responded around 11:15 p.m. for a report...
View ArticleFive prison guards hurt while restraining inmate
ATTICA — Two sergeants and three corrections officers were injured Saturday evening at the Wyoming Correctional Facility while restraining an inmate, the state Department of Corrections...
View ArticleFive charged after fleeing from stolen vehicle
A vehicle reported stolen at knifepoint Friday in Riverside was recovered Saturday night when five males abandoned it on the East Side while being pursued by officers responding to a robbery call,...
View ArticleDeputies charge two drivers with DWI
Erie County sheriff’s road patrols made two DWI arrests late Saturday of drivers who refused to consent to breath tests, according to a report.Deputies patrolling Main Road in the Town of Newstead...
View ArticleMan robbed of $20 on East Side
A man was robbed at gunpoint of $20 late Saturday on the East Side by a group of individuals, Buffalo police reported.The victim told police he was approached at Lasalle Avenue at Bailey Avenue around...
View ArticleShoplifters steal $1,000 worth of goods from Lockport WalMart
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – Three alleged professional shoplifters needed only a couple minutes to loot more than $1,100 worth of merchandise from the South Transit Road WalMart store Thursday evening,...
View ArticleDiocese, Falls school to be tried over role in girls’ harassment
Vanessa De Rosa was in eighth grade in 2002, when, she says, her computer teacher at St. Dominic Savio Middle School in Niagara Falls went to her cheerleading practices, offered her rides home and...
View ArticleSuit by contractor who worked on Lewiston Road thrown out
NIAGARA FALLS – A judge has dismissed a contractor’s defamation and breach of contract lawsuit against the City of Niagara Falls involving work done on the reconstruction project of Lewiston...
View ArticleSchools back to normal after bomb threats
An anonymous phone caller claiming there were bombs in both Niagara Wheatfield and Niagara Falls high schools Monday morning forced authorities to evacuate Niagara Wheatfield high school and middle...
View ArticleOne person injured in collision of car and city fire truck
One person was injured in a collision this morning between a Buffalo fire truck and a car while the truck was responding to a report of an automobile fire on Route 5 at the boundary of the city and...
View ArticleAuthorities identify man killed in Amherst apartment fire
Joseph McCusker, 51, has been identified as the man who died in an Amherst apartment fire over the weekend, authorities said today.The Snyder Fire Department was called at 2:11 a.m. Sunday to an...
View ArticleNiagara Drug Task Force called in to check into an alleged drug drop off site
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A woman in an apartment building in the 6400 block of Dysinger Road has made claims that people are using the building’s laundry room to make drug transfers.The woman told deputies...
View ArticleLockport man allegedly damages a person’s clothing in a burglary
LOCKPORT – A Lincoln Place man was jailed on three felony complaints following a Lockport burglary.On Friday New York State Police charged Marcus A. Walton, 34, with burglary second degree, criminal...
View ArticleWoman alleges she is knocked down in a physical harassment
LOCKPORT – A Fernwood Drive woman told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies that she was physically harassed Sunday night by a family friend who had been staying in her house.She said the man grabbed...
View ArticleDriver pleads not guilty in fatal W. Seneca crash
A West Seneca man pleaded not guilty Monday to drunken driving charges from the Nov. 27 crash that killed West Seneca Democratic Chairman Daniel S. McParlane.State Supreme Court Justice Russell P....
View ArticleMan on a beer run faces charges
WHEATFIELD – A Niagara Falls man who apparently hopped out of his running car on Ward Road for a quick bathroom break faces charges of public lewdness.William L. Brown, 50, of 98th Street was...
View ArticleCorasanti juror sentenced to jail again for 2nd alcohol-related driving...
A juror from the Dr. James G. Corasanti fatal hit-and-run and DWI trial will head to jail again, this time for a second alcohol-related driving offense.Town Justice Lynn W. Keane on Monday sentenced...
View ArticleJamestown man arrested for DWI in Ellicott
JAMESTOWN – A 24-year-old Jamestown man who was stopped by state police as he drove through the Town of Ellicott about 2:30 a.m. Sunday without using his headllights was charged with driving while...
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