Cigarette thief flees on bicycle
Someone threw a brick through the window of a North Buffalo gas station and stole several packs of cigarettes early Sunday.The incident happened at about 1:20 a.m. at the Delta Sonic on Delaware...
View ArticleVictim beaten by six or seven males
A male said he was jumped by at least a half-dozen attackers on Englewood Avenue early Sunday.The victim, whose age was not disclosed, told police between six and seven males beat him at about 2 a.m....
View ArticleDeputy, suspect tumble down Lockport hill
LOCKPORT – It was all downhill for a Niagara Falls man as he tripped while running from officers early Saturday after a reported fight at Main and Locust streets.Lockport police reported that when...
View ArticleArmed robbery at Lockport 7-Eleven
LOCKPORT – Two men, one of them armed with a gun, robbed the 7-Eleven store at South Transit and West High streets about 4 a.m. Sunday, Lockport police said.The men fled with an undetermined amount of...
View ArticleHamburg sued over beach restaurant contract
The owner of Woody’s Beach Club and Taqueria at Woodlawn Beach State Park is taking the Hamburg Town Board to court over the board’s decision to cancel his contract with the town.Tucker Curtin, who...
View ArticleCasey teacher was caught on videotape with pupil
A Casey Middle School art teacher caught on surveillance video kissing a student in a school storage room pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child in Amherst Town Court, District Attorney...
View ArticleGunfire reported on Elmer Avenue, Erb Street
Bullets were fired into a house on Elmer Avenue Sunday night, Northeast District police reported.An elderly woman told officers that about five rounds were fired at her home at about 7:30 p.m. Two...
View ArticleRepeat offender gets 14 years for abusing girls
A Buffalo man was sentenced to 14 years in prison for sexually abusing two girls for nearly seven years, starting when both victims were 9 years old.Anthony Chapman, 48, of Schmarbeck Avenue, had...
View ArticleFour-vehicle crash on Transit Road injures three
Three people were injured in a four-vehicle crash near the intersection of Transit and Robinson roads in the Town of Lockport this morning, state police said. One driver was taken by Mercy Flight to...
View ArticleKiller in Toys R Us homicide admits manslaughter, getting 25 years
Bernard “Bernie” Grucza today pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the homicide of Laurence C. “Larry” Wells II at the Toys R Us store last June.Grucza was charged with second-degree...
View ArticleSwerving for potholes leads to driver being jailed on unrelated charges
NIAGARA FALLS — Niagara County sheriff’s deputies stopped a man who they said was swerving all over the road as he turned from Lafayette Avenue onto Wyoming Avenue at 9:42 a.m. Monday. The driver told...
View ArticleCheektowaga shoplifting case results in jail sentence
A Buffalo resident with a lengthy arrest record was sentenced Monday to six months in jail in a shoplifting case, Cheektowaga police reported.Lawrence T. Zielinski, 40, of Davey Street, who pleaded...
View ArticleMan charged with second meth indictment
LOCKPORT – A man who recently completed an 18-month prison sentence for making methamphetamine allegedly was at it again last fall, according to an indictment unsealed Monday in Niagara County...
View ArticleMan jailed in Falls stabbing
LOCKPORT – Alvin W. Baines, who stabbed another man Sept. 29 near 47th Street and Niagara Falls Boulevard in Niagara Falls, was sentenced Monday to a year in Niagara County Jail by County Judge Sara...
View ArticleBuffalo school bus strikes an SUV on Memorial Drive at Concord Street
A bus serving the Buffalo schools struck an SUV in the rear at 3:58 p.m. Monday at Memorial Drive and Concord Street, according to Buffalo Fire Department officials who were called to the scene. They...
View ArticleNiagara Falls couple arrested in Buffalo shoplifting
A 34-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man, both of them from Niagara Falls, were arrested for trying to steal merchandise from the Target store at 2626 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo and fighting with...
View ArticleBlasdell man arrested at Orchard Park laundry
A 23-year-old Blasdell man was arrested about 3 a.m. Monday after Orchard Park police staked out a North Buffalo Road coin laundry where he was suspected of illegally using a master key to open...
View ArticleToys R Us killer pleads guilty to manslaughter
Bernard T. Grucza avoided the possibility of a life prison sentence by admitting Monday that he fatally stabbed the assistant manager of a Toys R Us store in Hamburg last summer.Instead, Grucza will...
View ArticlePolice have more bad news for customers of Williamsville jeweler
It’s looking like the fake diamonds a Williamsville jeweler is accused of selling were only the tip of the iceberg.Other precious gemstones purchased or repaired during the past 20 years at the former...
View ArticleToys R Us killer also admits stealing more than $200,000
Bernard T. Grucza’s laundry list of wrong doing continued to grow Tuesday with the revelation that he did exactly what Toys R Us hired him to prevent.He stole from the company. And he did it often and...
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