Man pulled from car in Eden ravine charged with DWI
A 39-year-old Hamburg man who was pulled from his car Wednesday night in a ravine off Route 62 just south of Webster Road in the Town of Eden was arraigned today on a charge of driving while...
View ArticleJury begins deliberations in trial of Buffalo man accused of killing girl, 13
Jurors on Thursday began deliberating the fate of a man accused of killing a 13-year-old girl after they heard two contrasting portrayals of what happened.But both the defense and prosecution agreed...
View ArticleGrand Island woman killed in Pennsylvania crash near state line
A 26-year-old Grand Island woman was killed in a two-vehicle crash Thursday morning when her vehicle crossed the center line and collided with an oncoming vehicle in Pennsylvania, just south of the...
View ArticleTeen charged in fight with 12-year-old in Evans
A teenager has been charged with beating up a 12-year-old boy in the Town of Evans.The fight happened at about 5:30 p.m. on March 9 on Commercial Street in the Village of Angola, said Lt. Peter...
View ArticleMorris found guilty on all counts in rape and murder of 13-year-old girl
A jury today convicted Darshawn Morris in the gruesome murder and attempted dismemberment of a 13-year-old girl last summer after a party at his apartment.Jurors apparently didn’t believe Morris, who...
View ArticleJudge rejects Tonawanda Coke’s request for acquittal
A federal judge has denied Tonawanda Coke’s request for an acquittal of all charges or a new trial.In rejecting the company’s motions, Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny said he found no...
View ArticleOfficials thank jury for duty in horrific case
After Darshawn Morris’ conviction Friday in the gruesome murder and attempted dismemberment of a 13-year-old girl, the judge, the prosecutor and the defense attorneys all thanked the jury for sitting...
View ArticleCheektowaga drug dealer gets seven years behind bars
A Cheektowaga man who kept dealing marijuana after he was arrested twice in Buffalo with pounds of pot in rental cars he was driving was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison.Before Andre Sumpter...
View ArticleCheektowaga man pleads guilty to shaking friend’s infant
A Cheektowaga man faces up to seven years in prison after he admitted violently shaking and injuring a friend’s infant while baby-sitting the boy last year at his home.James Brown, 25, of Trent...
View ArticleCo-defendant arraigned in Falls crack deal
LOCKPORT – A man who allegedly took part in a Feb. 21, 2013, crack cocaine sale to an undercover police officer in Niagara Falls pleaded not guilty Friday in Niagara County Court.Wayne Payne Sr., 57,...
View ArticleWheatfield cocaine dealer sentenced to state prison
LOCKPORT – A man who violated the terms of court-supervised drug treatment by being caught with more than a half-ounce of cocaine was sentenced Friday by Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III to...
View ArticleFalls hotel burglar who left area gets maximum sentence
LOCKPORT – A man who angered Niagara County Judge Matthew J. Murphy III by heading for Georgia after the judge freed him from jail for Christmas was sentenced Friday to the maximum of 3½ to seven...
View ArticleAttorney says genetics, not assault, may have left baby blind in one eye
LOCKPORT – The new attorney for Kenneth S. Lathrop Jr., who pleaded guilty Dec. 6 to beating his baby son, said Friday he will seek to withdraw the plea because a genetic defect, not an assault, might...
View ArticleErie County loses legal battle to recoup real estate taxes
Erie County’s legal battle with mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is over.A federal judge ruled that Fannie, Freddie and other government-chartered corporations are exempt from paying the...
View ArticleThree Batavia residents arrested for selling crack cocaine
BATAVIA – Three Batavia residents have been arrested for allegedly selling crack cocaine on a number of occasions to undercover agents of the Genesee County Local Drug Task Force, the Genesee County...
View ArticleBuffalo sisters-in-law plead guilty to federal drug charge
Barbara Moran, 53, and her sister-in-law, Mary Moran, 50, both of Buffalo, pleaded guilty Friday before U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to charges of conspiracy to distribute fentanyl. U.S....
View ArticleBatavia suspect picked up on stolen car warrant
WARSAW – A 33-year-old Batavia man was remanded to the Wyoming County Jail Friday after he was taken into custody by Batavia police on a Wyoming County arrest warrant linked to a stolen car incident...
View ArticleLackawanna man gets federal prison term for cocaine trafficking
A 31-year-old Lackawanna man on Friday was sentenced to five years in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny on a cocaine-trafficking conviction. Angelo Vazquez-Rodriguez was convicted...
View ArticleWilliamsville man charged in Clarence drug store robbery
A 32-year-old Williamsville man – already in custody at the Erie County Holding Center on earlier robbery charges – was formally charged Friday with robbery in a Feb. 18 incident in which he made off...
View ArticleHigh street man arrested for punching woman during argument
A 26-year-old High Street man was arrested at a Phyllis Avenue home about 5:25 p.m. Friday for allegedly assaulting a woman during an argument.Brandon N. Crawford was charged with third-degree assault...
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