Accused copper thief found in West Side attic
Buffalo police nabbed a suspected burglar on Saturday and accused him of breaking into a home on the Upper West Side.Reymundo Nieves-Rojas, 40, was charged with second-degree trespass, possession of...
View ArticleChevy truck stolen in city’s Kenfield neighborhood
A truck with keys in the ignition and left running was stolen while outside a home in the city’s Kenfield neighborhood, police said Saturday.The 2009 white, Chevy truck contained a number of bulky...
View ArticleMobile Command Center goes operational for Niagara County Sheriff’s...
LOCKPORT – After more than two years of planning by the Niagara County’s Sheriff’s Office, a new and improved Mobile Command Center became operational last week.Featuring the latest in communications...
View ArticleHead-on crash kills Albion driver
GAINES – An Albion man was killed early today when his car ran off the road in the town of Gaines and crashed head-on into a newspaper delivery SUV, according to the Orleans County Shefiff’s...
View ArticleDay in court eludes families of Flight 3407
Nearly four years have passed since the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Clarence Center, and families of the victims are again wondering: How much longer will their legal battle with...
View ArticleGenesee County man injured trying to fight chimney fire
A 52-year-old Genesee County man remained in Erie County Medical Center’s Burn Intensive Care Unit on Monday, one day after his feet fell through the roof of his home as he tried to fight a chimney...
View ArticleMan chases suspect breaking into his vehicle in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A Wheatfield resident chased a man who allegedly was trying to break into his pickup truck Sunday night and held him for police.Manuel L. Diaz, 26, of Hyde Park Boulevard was charged...
View ArticleChurch wine stolen from the Newfane altar
NEWFANE – A door was pried open over the weekend to break in to Faith Lutheran Church on Transit Road, but church elders told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies that the wine set out for Sunday...
View ArticleTwo men charged with trying to steal house furnace
Two men were charged and a third suspect is being sought with trying to steal a West Side woman’s home furnace late last week, Buffalo police reported Monday.Emmanuel Mardenborough, of Chenango...
View ArticleBuffalo man charged with West Seneca burglary
A Buffalo man is accused of stealing a 42-inch television during a burglary last week at a house in West Seneca.West Seneca police, with assistance from Buffalo officers, arrested Adam J. Heyd, 32, of...
View ArticleTrio charged with gang assault on Metro Rail
Three Buffalo women were accused last week of violently assaulting two other women at the Metro Rail University Station, Buffalo police reported Monday.Jetuan J. McDuffie, 22, and Britney B. Hall, 23,...
View ArticleReward offered after Lockport bar attack
LOCKPORT – Two men were knocked unconscious in an unprovoked attack at a Lockport bar early Sunday, and city police reported Monday that a $1,000 reward has been offered for information leading to the...
View ArticleFalls ER nurses assaulted by unruly patient
NIAGARA FALLS – Two emergency room nurses at Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center were injured by a female patient on Sunday, city police said. Toni M. Soliday, 33, of Lockport Road, was charged with...
View ArticleFormer Concord golf course worker agrees to repay missing funds
A Springville woman pleaded guilty before Concord Town Court Judge Leslie Gibbin to disorderly conduct and was ordered to make $100 restitution to the owners of the Concord Crest Golf Course, the...
View ArticleState’s highest court to offer case records free online starting Feb. 1
The Court of Appeals, the state’s Albany-based high court, will launch its new online service – the Court of Appeals Public Access and Search System (Court-PASS) – on Feb. 1 to give the public,...
View ArticleBuffalo woman charged with beating man with pipe
A Buffalo woman was arrested and charged with second-degree assault after she allegedly clubbed a male friend with a piece of metal pipe during an argument last week, Buffalo police reported...
View ArticleCourt of Appeals to open its new online service
The Court of Appeals, the state’s Albany-based high court, will launch its new online service – the Court of Appeals Public Access and Search System (Court-PASS) – on Feb. 1 to give the public,...
View ArticleEx-official in Falls is set for guilty plea to corruption
The FBI’s investigation into public corruption in Niagara Falls is about to snare a former top city official accused of accepting gifts in return for political favors.Guy A. Bax, a former Niagara...
View ArticlePolice identify man shot at Fillmore and Riley
A Buffalo man was wounded in a shooting at about 2 a.m. Tuesday at Fillmore Avenue and Riley Street, Buffalo police reported.Derrick Glenn, 29, was taken to Erie County Medical Center where he was...
View ArticleFormer Falls official pleads guilty to corruption
For steering business to a favored contractor, former Niagara Falls Building Commissioner Guy A. Bax received an expense-paid fishing trip, free golf outings, home repairs that included a remodeled...
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