Driver crashes into library building while looking for her children
A 41-year-old Boston woman, apparently unaware her children had sent her a text message about where they were, was arrested for drunken driving and other charges by State Police about 4 p.m. Monday...
View ArticleVideo games and game systems reported stolen from a car
NIAGARA FALLS – More than $1,000 worth of video games, two Nintendo 3D game systems and accessories, a backpack and a floor mats in a car were reported stolen over the weekend from a parking lot at...
View ArticleBusiness owner says he was scammed out of $500
WHEATFIELD – The owner of Kim’s International cafe on Lockport Road told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday that he responded to a call from a man claiming to be from National Grid who...
View ArticleWorkman injured in fall from platform of a hydraulic boom truck
ALBION – A 62-year-old Canandaigua construction worker was taken by ambulance to a Rochester hospital for injuries he suffered Wednesday morning on a work site in the 900 block of West Kendall Road in...
View ArticleA $10,000 construction trailer is reported stolen in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A 2012 construction utility trailer belonging to Custom Crews at 6111 Old Niagara Road is believed to have been stolen some time in the past three months.An employee for the company told...
View ArticleBuffalo teen pleads guilty to three bank robberies
An 18-year-old Buffalo man pleaded guilty Wednesday before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to robbing three M&T bank branches in Buffalo and Niagara Falls since last August. Michael Bland...
View ArticlePolice zero in on fingerprints and footprints left behind in a Falls burglary
NIAGARA FALLS – A 43-year-old man said he arrived home and found that his door had been kicked in and his house was ransacked, sometime between 5:30 a.m. and 10:15 p.m. Tuesday in the 3000 block of...
View ArticleMan rejects plea offers in shaken-baby case
LOCKPORT – A Town of Lockport man, charged with seriously injuring his 5-month-old son by violently shaking him Jan. 22, refused two pre-indictment plea offers Wednesday in State Supreme Court.Deputy...
View ArticleBuffalo man draws prison sentence in domestic violence case
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said Wednesday she was “surprised” that a Buffalo man she imprisoned Wednesday in a domestic violence case has a new girlfriend.“Does she know your...
View ArticleMan draws one year in jail in sex case
LOCKPORT – A man who is in federal custody for violating probation on a weapons possession conviction in North Carolina was sentenced to a concurrent year in jail Wednesday for a sex-related case in...
View ArticleVarysburg woman dies after two-car crash in Attica
ATTICA – A 54-year-old Varysburg woman was fatally injured and an 88-year-old Akron man suffered chest injuries in a two-car crash on Route 98 just south of Lindsey Road in the Town of Attica about...
View ArticleJury to determine fate of two teens charged in cabbie’s murder
A jury today will start deliberating the fate of two Buffalo teenagers accused of killing a popular cab driver last March by firing two bullets into the back of his head, then taking his wallet and...
View ArticleMan injured, driver charged after truck hits tree
LOCKPORT – A passenger in a pickup truck was critically injured and the driver was charged with drunk driving early Thursday.The truck was eastbound on Lincoln Avenue about 1 a.m. when it struck a...
View ArticleResidents warned of phone scams
WARSAW – Wyoming County residents and merchants were warned Thursday of a telephone scam involving warnings about unpaid electric bills or asking in advance for payments to begin a newer style...
View ArticleJury deliberation to resume in cab driver’s death
A jury deliberating the fate of two Buffalo teenagers accused of robbing and killing a popular cab driver last March will resume deliberations this morning after failing to reach a verdict...
View ArticleDrug addict admits Walmart theft scheme
LOCKPORT – A man who tried to steal $1,642 worth of merchandise from the Lockport Walmart store Nov. 16 pleaded guilty Thursday in Niagara County Court and was assigned to the judicial diversion...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in domestic violence case
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man admitted Thursday that he violated a woman’s order of protection by contacting her in person April 21.Howard M. Neal, 26, of Linwood Avenue, pleaded guilty to...
View ArticleTwelve car crash in Chautauqua County sends 10 persons to hospitals
Severe winter weather conditions that caused a white-out on Route 5 in the Silver Creek section of the Town of Sheridan caused a 12-vehicle accident at noontime Thursday and sent ten persons,...
View ArticleAlleged Lockport motel burglar pleads not guilty
LOCKPORT – A man accused of burglarizing the Lockport Inn & Suites, 315 S.Transit St., pleaded not guilty to a five-count indictment Thursday in Niagara County Court.Adam C. Strobele, 18, of...
View ArticleFormer Illinois man pleads not guilty to Falls crack dealing
LOCKPORT – A man who moved from Illinois to Niagara Falls last year was arraigned Thursday in Niagara County Court on charges that he entered the Falls’ crack cocaine trade.Tyler C. Smith, 19, of...
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