Student charged with felony robbery
A student at School 40 at 89 Clare Street has been charged with a felony count of second-degree robbery and a second student is being sought for the alleged mugging of a third student in front of the...
View ArticleStolen car recovered with child in back seat
A stolen white SUV with an 11-year-old child in the back seat was recovered about 10:30 p.m. tonight at Bailey and Gerald avenues, police said.The vehicle was taken while the driver was in a...
View ArticlePedestrian’s death revives warnings about crossing Niagara Falls...
People who live near Niagara Falls Boulevard have some advice for pedestrians who cross the four-lane highway: Don’t mess with the boulevard.On Wednesday night, Sharon L. Alfiere attempted to cross...
View ArticleMazen’s fatal mistake: He thought working as a cabbie was safer than...
Mazen M. Abdallah became a cab driver because he thought it was safer than working at a deli.He died on the job anyway.The 55-year-old native of Jerusalem was found lying face down on the floor in the...
View ArticleCamera catches thief in action
Buffalo police are releasing images from a surveillance camera in hopes of finding a man who stole a Ford Explorer with an 11-year-old boy in the vehicle.The images were captured just before 9:15 p.m....
View ArticleFire breaks out at Gertie’s in Clarence Center
Volunteer firefighters from three companies this morning battled a blaze that caused an estimated $20,000 in damage to a Clarence Center restaurant.An upstairs tenant smelled smoke, leading to a 6:40...
View ArticleSubmarine sandwich dispute ends in DWI arrest
An argument at a Town of Boston bar Monday night led to the arrest of a 51-year-old woman on a charge of driving while intoxicated, state police reported.Lisa M. Snyder, 51, of Boston, and her...
View ArticleForestville man drives into snow bank, charged with driving while intoxicated
MAYVILLE – A 38-year-old Forestville man was charged with felony driving while intoxicated and other counts after allegedly driving into a snow bank off Hanover Road in the Town of Hanover about 9:47...
View ArticleToronto man found at Peace Bridge with marijuana
A 31-year-old Canadian man was found Monday night by U.S. Customs agent at the Peace Bridge to be carrying 30 grams of alleged marijuana. Michael Baron, a Toronto resident, was turned over to Buffalo...
View ArticleFalls man faces felony charges in series of larcenies
NIAGARA FALLS – A Falls man accused of burglary and grand larceny in two separate cases was charged after being caught on surveillance tape allegedly using a stolen credit card in a liquor...
View ArticleMan gets 25 years in fatal beating of his wife
A Buffalo man who beat his wife to death last year received a 25-year prison sentence Tuesday after her mother urged the judge to send him away for as long as possible.Erie County Judge Sheila M....
View ArticleParking lot of local fire hall damaged by a reckless driver doing doughnuts
ROYALTON – The president of Wolcottsville Fire Department called in the Niagara County Sheriff’s Department on Monday after firefighters found $800 in damage to their parking lot, caused by a car...
View ArticleFirewood and scrap metal stolen in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A homeowner in the 5400 block of Saunders Settlement Road told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday that someone had taken $150 worth of firewood and scrap metal from open trailers on...
View ArticleReputed Falls cocaine dealer agrees to five-year sentence
LOCKPORT – Antoine R. Bones, whom Niagara Falls police called a cocaine dealer when they arrested him May 3, accepted a plea offer Tuesday that included a five-year state prison sentence.Bones, 28, of...
View ArticleBuffalo man imprisoned on Falls drug charge
LOCKPORT – A Buffalo man, who was expelled from the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment in October, was sentenced Tuesday by Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III to...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda man pleads guilty to driving drunk in ex-girlfriend’s...
LOCKPORT – James M. Martin of North Tonawanda, who was charged with stealing his former girlfriend’s car Sept. 19 and driving it while drunk, pleaded guilty Tuesday in Niagara County Court to two...
View ArticleTrial of Amherst woman in daughter’s death postponed three months
The murder trial of Candace Croff Cartagena, accused of suffocating her 8-year-old daughter, has been postponed for three months after her attorney, John R. Nuchereno, withdrew to receive inpatient...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty to Sanborn gas station holdup
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty to taking part in the June 28 armed robbery of the Valero gas station and convenience store in Sanborn.Kenneth McNeil Jr., 25, of 20th Street, admitted to...
View ArticleWoman cut and beaten with vacuum hose
A 32-year-old Hewitt Avenue man was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly cutting a woman and beating her with a vacuum hose during an argument in an Olympic Avenue flat. Kyle Jordan was arrested...
View ArticleEight UB students treated in marijuana case
Eight SUNY at Buffalo students were reported by campus police to have gone to local hospitals over the weekend for treatment of breathing and other problems that may have been caused by smoking...
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