60 small dogs removed from condemned Town of Lockport home
LOCKPORT – Sixty small dogs were removed from a house in the Town of Lockport Saturday afternoon, the Niagara County Sheriff’s Office said.Deputies assisted by state police were summoned about 4:30...
View ArticleOfficer paralyzed by gunshot dies at 48
Patricia A. “Patty” Parete, the Buffalo police officer who was paralyzed after being shot while on duty in 2006, died Saturday at age 48.The exact cause of death was not immediately known Saturday...
View ArticleLockport killer to get another day in court
LOCKPORT – William J. Barnes Jr., the Lockport man who killed his girlfriend and her lover in 1986, will be granted a hearing on his latest effort to overturn the verdict – even though the judge...
View ArticleMotorist charged with DWI after car hits tree in Clarence
An Amherst motorist whose vehicle slid into a tree late Saturday night was charged with driving while intoxicated, Erie County Sheriff Timothy B. Howard reported today.Deputies Matthew Fuqua and...
View ArticleTrucker uninjured when tractor-trailer rolls on I-86
REDHOUSE – No injuries were reported, but Interstate 86 was closed for several hours, after a tractor-trailer rolled over Saturday night in the Cattaraugus County Town of Redhouse, according to...
View ArticleWoman, boyfriend who arrives to help, both charged with DWI
FRENCH CREEK – After a 20-year-old woman crashed her car early this morning while texting and driving in the Chautauqua County Town of French Creek, both she and her boyfriend – who showed up to help...
View ArticleTown of Hamburg man arrested for DWI following disturbance in Boston
A Town of Hamburg man involved in a disturbance early today in the Town of Boston subsequently was arrested on a felony charge of driving while intoxicated, Erie County sheriff’s deputies...
View ArticleLaSalle woman attacked in parking lot of Third Street tavern
NIAGARA FALLS – An 18-year-old LaSalle woman suffered a possible broken nose in what was termed an unprovoked attack in the parking lot of a Third Street tavern about 1:45 a.m. Saturday.The victim, a...
View ArticleSmoke in Grand Island restaurant leads to evacuation
Smoke from a burned-out drive belt on a rooftop heating unit caused the brief evacuation of the McDonald’s restaurant on Grand Island. Grand Island Fire Department spokesman Ray Pauley said...
View ArticleTwo arrested as police target underage sales of alcohol on Superbowl Sunday
Two clerks were arrested for illegal sales of alcoholic beverages to persons younger than 21 on Superbowl Sunday, state police at Clarence said.Aided by personnel from the State Liquor Authority,...
View ArticleOne suspect arrested in ambush of food deliveryman
Buffalo police have arrested one suspect in the armed robbery of a food deliveryman Friday night and were searching for an accomplice.Investigators said the deliveryman was confronted by two men, one...
View ArticleHoldup of 7-Eleven captured on surveillance tape
Buffalo police are reviewing a surveillance video of a robbery Sunday evening at the 7-Eleven store at 171 Grant St.Officers said a young man wearing a black-and-white plaid scarf over his face tossed...
View ArticleNOCO files countersuit in propane explosion
Noco Energy Corp., hit with a lawsuit in October from a Wilson family whose house was destroyed in a propane explosion, is hitting back.The company has filed a countersuit in State Supreme Court in...
View ArticleFuel tanker rolls over near Pa. border
KIANTONE – A fuel tanker truck rolled over on to its side in a singe-vehicle crash this morning on Route 62, according to State Police in Jamestown.Only a small amount of fuel leaked from the truck as...
View ArticlePedestrian struck over weekend in Tonawanda
A man remained hospitalized today after being struck by a car while cross Military Road shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday, Town of Tonawanda police said.Investigators said the man, whose name was not...
View ArticleStop at DWI checkpoint leads to Leandra’s Law charge
A woman was charged with a felony count of DWI for driving while intoxicated with a child under the age of 15 in the vehicle, Erie County Sheriff’s officials said.Mary Jankowiak, 50, was stopped...
View Article‘Weaving’ driver gets aggravated DWI charge
WHEATFIELD – A North Tonawanda driver stopped because deputies said his car was weaving and had a cracked tail light ended being charged with aggravated DWI after they said his blood alcohol content...
View ArticleFootprints in snow lead to suspect in car break-ins
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies, tracking footprints in the snow up and down driveways to almost every vehicle parked on Amanda Lane, eventually arrested a 19-year-old man early...
View ArticleSuspected drug kingpin arrested after two years on the lam
The suspected kingpin of a multi-million heroin ring that funneled drugs from the Bronx to Buffalo was arrested late last week after eluding authorities for nearly two years, state police announced...
View ArticleMan sentenced to prison for knife attack
A Good Avenue man was sentenced today to up to three years in prison on second-degree assault and weapons convictions for stabbing another man in the face after an argument in a cab at Paderewski...
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