Ripley man jailed after choking girlfriend
MAYVILLE – A 41-year-old Ripley man was remanded to the Chautauqua County Jail Monday afternoon after his arrest on criminal obstruction of breathing and harassment charged by sheriff’s deputies for...
View ArticleLeon man arrested after beating woman in front of young child
LEON – A 31-year-old Leon man was arrested Monday morning after allegedly beating up a woman friend in front of a young child in a Smith Road home in the Town of Leon. Brian J. Herman was charged by...
View ArticleAttica man jailed for resisting arrest
ATTICA – A 21-year-old Attica man was jailed after Attica police subdued him as he fought them when they were called to his Market Street flat about 1:10 a.m. Sunday. Lucas D. Booth was charged with...
View ArticlePenn State student arrested for drugs and speeding
LITTLE VALLEY – A 19-year-old Penn State at Behrend student who is from Rockville, Md., was remanded to the county jail here after his arrest for speeding and drugs by state troopers on the Southern...
View ArticlePlaintiffs off to bad start in sex harassment trial against diocese
LOCKPORT – A trial got off to a rocky start Monday for two former Catholic middle school students suing St. Dominic Savio Middle School and the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo.The students have accused...
View ArticleDarien Center man arrested for DWI at railroad crossing
PEMBROKE – A 45-year-old Darien Center man was arrested on drunken driving charges by state troopers after he was reportedly observed driving around the crossing gates at the Colby Road railroad...
View ArticleBartolomei drops Splash Park lawsuit
LOCKPORT – Niagara Falls attorney John P. Bartolomei has given up his eight-year effort to obtain more money from the state for the site of the former Niagara Splash Water Park.The state used eminent...
View ArticlePolice seek information in bank robbery
Depew police are seeking information on a man who robbed the Citizens Bank at 2040 George Urban Boulevard about 12:35 p.m. Monday. The man is suspected of also having taken part in earlier robberies...
View ArticleVictim of drive-by shooting take to ECMC
Buffalo police late Monday were investigating the drive-by shooting of a man at Strauss and Sycamore streets just before 7:30 p.m. The victim, whose name and age were not immediately available,...
View ArticleSuspect arrested in menacing
A 30-year-old Lasalle Avenue man was arrested in the 2700 block of Bailey Avenue about 2 p.m. Monday and charged with menacing a neighbor man with a handgun as the neighbor was shoveling snow in the...
View ArticleInformant paid by FBI testifies in Local 17 corruption trial
When William Denton walked a picket line, he often chatted up his fellow union members.What they didn’t know at the time is that Denton was a paid FBI informant recording their every word.Denton, a...
View ArticleBuffalo man admits to Lockport DWI felony
LOCKPORT – A man facing sentencing in Buffalo City Court on a felony driving while intoxicated charge pleaded guilty to the same charge Monday in Niagara County Court.Raymond A. Black Jr., 49, of East...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to theft of rifle, shotgun
LOCKPORT - A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty Monday to stealing a rifle and a shotgun April 18 from a house on Lake Road in Wilson.Kristopher L. Buehler, 29, of 18th Street, admitted to fourth-degree...
View ArticleFBI director shares views on surveillance in visit to Buffalo
In terms of hospital bedside dramas, it had all the elements – intrigue, confrontation and real life consequences.And FBI Director James Comey was smack dab in the middle of it all.It was 2004, and...
View ArticleDiocese settles Falls girls' harassment suit
LOCKPORT – The Catholic Diocese of Buffalo will pay a settlement to resolve a lawsuit filed by two women who said they were harassed by a teacher at St. Dominic Savio Middle School in Niagara Falls...
View ArticlePrison closings and inmate overcrowding decried
ATTICA – Saturday evening’s inmate-caused injuries to two sergeants and three corrections officers at the Wyoming Correctional Facility in Attica are part of “an alarming trend of violence” caused by...
View ArticleNiagara Falls man charged in a pair of burglaries
NIAGARA FALLS – A Niagara Falls man faces five felony counts for his alleged role in two city burglaries.Lance E. Herie, 39, of 77th Street, was arraigned Monday in City Court on charges of...
View ArticleConstruction company reports theft of equipment in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – Construction equipment and tools were reported stolen Monday from a property in the 2400 block of Niagara Avenue.The owner of Continental Construction told police he had been working...
View ArticleThousands of dollars worth of copper fittings stolen from a construction firm
NIAGARA FALLS – A Cheektowaga construction firm doing heating and air conditioning work at Harry F. Abate Elementary School at 1625 Lockport Street, told police Monday that some time over the weekend...
View ArticleFreedom man pleads not guilty to child porn charges
A 25-year-old Freedom man pleaded not guilty Monday in Little Valley to a Cattaraugus County grand jury indictment accusing him of disseminating kiddy porn. Derrek M. Eschenbach was arraigned before...
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