Lockport man to serve probation, weekends in jail for breaking...
LOCKPORT – A man who threw his 23-month-old daughter toward a couch while hanging onto her left arm, causing a fracture, was sentenced Friday to four months of weekends in jail, starting next weekend,...
View ArticleWoman who drove SUV at boyfriend is placed on probation
LOCKPORT – A woman who drove her sport utility vehicle at her boyfriend but injured another woman was placed on three years’ probation Friday by State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch...
View ArticleWoman sentenced to drug treatment facility in burglary case
LOCKPORT – A Hartland woman who was repeatedly called a “manipulator” by State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. was sentenced to a stint in the state prison system’s secure drug treatment...
View ArticleTwo-time jawbreaker sentenced to eight years in prison
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda man who broke a victim’s jaw twice, three weeks apart, was sentenced Friday to eight years in prison and five years of post-release supervision by Niagara County Judge...
View ArticleNiagara Falls man admits cheating HUD with fake contract bids
A former employee of Niagara Falls contractor John J. Gross Jr. admitted Friday to taking part in a scheme to cheat the U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development.Walter Henrich Weiss pleaded guilty...
View ArticleLackawanna man pleads guilty in his sixth DWI case
A Lackawanna man with five felony DWI convictions has pleaded guilty in a Hamburg drunken driving crash that seriously injured his passenger and ended with the suspect wading into Lake Erie as he...
View ArticleFirst 50 Buffalo officers now carrying opiate antidote
Fifty Buffalo police officers throughout the city’s five districts are now carrying Narcan, an antidote for opiate overdoses, Mayor Byron W. Brown and Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda announced...
View ArticleWoman charged with biting cellblock attendant
A 24-year-old Herman Street woman was charged Thursday evening with assaulting three people, including a cellblock attendant whose hand she allegedly bit. Cherie Moore was arrested at about 9:15 p.m....
View ArticleBoth drivers hurt in collision of car and snowplow
A 57-year-old Blasdell man and a 40-year-old West Valley man were both hospitalized after a two-car crash at about 12:20 p.m. Friday at New Oregon Road and Genesee Road in the Town of North Collins,...
View ArticleNorthland Avenue man charged with assaulting woman
A 49-year-old man was arrested about 9 a.m. Friday for allegedly assaulting a woman as they argued outside their homes in the 500 block of Northland Avenue.Leonard Quigley was charged with...
View ArticleLockport man charged with for having sex with a young girl
LOCKPORT – A 35-year-old Lockport man has been arrested for allegedly having sex with an underage girl. Darwin J. Fifield Jr. was arrested about 6:45 p.m. Friday on third-degree rape and child...
View ArticleFBI putting up billboards to aid search for animal rights activist
The FBI is putting up billboards in Buffalo as part of a nationwide search for an animal rights activist accused of domestic terrorism.The billboards ask the public to contact the agency if they think...
View ArticleMaspeth man asked to leave casino accused of attacking security supervisor
NIAGARA FALLS – A Maspeth man was arrested in Seneca Niagara Casino Hotel early Saturday after he punched a security supervisor in the face while being removed from a hotel bar, authorities said....
View ArticleFire in 19th Street apartment complex is traced to bedroom
NIAGARA FALLS – A fire that appeared to start in a second-floor bedroom damaged an apartment complex at 426 19th Street Friday afternoon. A resident of the apartment unit smelled smoke shortly before...
View ArticleDriver accused of trying to dodge Kensington Expressway traffic stop faces...
A Buffalo man who tried to avoid a traffic stop about 11:20 a.m. Friday on the Kensington Expressway ended up crashing into a tree, state police said.Seth H. Deitsch, 33, of Niagara Street, was...
View ArticleSouthtowns man, 32, killed in crash on Route 240 in Concord
A Southtowns man suffered fatal injuries late Saturday in a Concord crash after he lost control of his car, slid into oncoming traffic and was struck broadside by a pickup, the Erie County Sheriff’s...
View Article$120,000 fire chases seven from Cambridge Avenue home
Seven people escaped without injury from a fire that tore through a home in the city’s Grider neighborhood late Saturday.The fire was reported at 10:23 p.m. at 333 Cambridge Ave., off East Delavan...
View ArticleMan arrested for criminal trespass at Buffalo Casino
A 49-year-old Florida Street man was arrested on a criminal trespass charge when he showed up at the Seneca Casino on Fulton Street about 12:30 a.m. Monday. Ronald Newton was arrested after casino...
View ArticleBuffalo man who threatened to kill wife, children gets 15 years in prison on...
A Buffalo man who repeatedly threatened to kill his estranged wife and their seven children and even threatened female prosecutors and witnesses before his latest trial has been sentenced to 15 years...
View ArticleMan charged with DWI after car hits tree in Clarence
Erie County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Clarence man for driving while intoxicated Monday night after his car slammed into a tree on Salt Road in Clarence, officials reported.Deputies also ticketed...
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