Wrong-way motorist collides with another vehicle
A female motorist driving the wrong way on Interstate 190 in the Town of Tonawanda Tuesday night collided with a male motorist headed in the proper direction, State Police tell The Buffalo News.Both...
View ArticleOlean man gets one year in jail for sale of cocaine
LITTLE VALLEY – An Olean man will spend a year behind bars for selling cocaine in the city last June and July.James V. Hamilton, 45, was ordered this week by Cattaraugus County Judge Ronald D. Ploetz...
View ArticleThird trial for murder needed for Robie Drake
LOCKPORT – A third murder trial for Robie J. Drake – who admitted he killed two North Tonawanda High School students in 1981, but says he didn’t mean to do it – will be needed after the state’s...
View ArticleWeapon charge sends Buffalo man to prison
A Buffalo man was sentenced Wednesday to 37 months in prison by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny on a charge of weapon possession.Marcus Adside, 24, was accused of illegally possessing a...
View ArticleFlorida man sentenced in false ID case
A Florida man has been sentenced to time served by U.S. District Court Judge William M. Skretny for his role in providing false identification documents to illegal immigrants, U.S. Attorney William J....
View ArticleRowdy Williamsville liquor store customer charged with DWI
Troopers called to a Williamsville liquor store this afternoon ended up confronting an unruly customer and lodging a drunken driving charge.Clarence-based State Police said they were called about 4...
View ArticleMarijuana recovered in Pendleton traffic stop
PENDLETON – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies found six baggies containing more than two ounces of marijuana after stopping a man on traffic charges at shortly after 11 p.m. Tuesday at the corner of...
View ArticleGowanda man charged in stabbing
A Gowanda man was charged Wednesday with stabbing a man in Hanover Tuesday.Johnny Bouknight, 35, of Gowanda, was being held in the Erie County Holding Center on first-degree assault and weapons...
View ArticleRepeat drunk driver arrested in Lockport
LOCKPORT – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies investigating a case of suspected drunken driving Tuesday learned the suspect had his license revoked six times on alcohol-related charges and for refusing...
View ArticleBuffalo man charged with cutting woman’s throat with trowel
A Dartmouth Avenue man remained in custody at the Erie County Holding Center Wednesday night, a day after he was arrested for allegedly lacerating a woman’s throat with a trowel during an argument in...
View ArticleTonawanda scrapper case tossed
The charge against a “scrapper,” cited for illegally collecting material left curbside in the Town of Tonawanda, was dismissed Wednesday night as a bench trial was to begin because of new information...
View ArticleBuffalo man charged with beating pregnant woman, stealing her car
A Buffalo man was arrested this week and charged with beating up a pregnant Buffalo woman and stealing her car about three months ago.Gerald T. Newkirk, 43, of Princeton Place, was arrested Tuesday...
View ArticlePerry police officer charged with killing his son
HERKIMER – A Western New York police officer has been charged with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of his son at an Adirondacks motel.Michael Leach, 59, son of former Rochester Police Chief...
View ArticleImpostor posing as dog warden tries to steal pets
MAYVILLE – A man posing as a dog warden for the Town of Pomfret has been trying force homeowners in both Pomfret and the Town of Portland to surrender their pets to him under fake confiscation or...
View ArticleBedore Tours sued over Steuben bus crash
A travel company in India and several of its customers who were injured in a deadly bus crash in Steuben County have filed lawsuits against the North Tonawanda company that owned and operated the...
View ArticleDetails emerge in slaying as girlfriend is charged
Officer Timothy Sylvester walked into a nightmare late Wednesday night, responding to a report of a domestic disturbance at an Oliver Street apartment in North Tonawanda.As he entered the second-floor...
View ArticleBuffalo woman gets 10 months for obstruction of justice
A Buffalo woman was sentenced to 10 months in prison Thursday by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice.Assistant U.S. Attorneys Kathleen A. Lynch and...
View ArticleMan killed in Great Valley farming accident
GREAT VALLEY – A 29-year-old man was killed when he was caught in a piece of farm equipment while working on a farm off Hungry Hollow Road.The body of Augus Lindell was found at about 4:30 a.m....
View ArticleMan punches, threatens woman with knife outside City Mission
A man living at the City Mission was arrested this week and charged with punching a woman in the face and threatening to stab her with a lock-blade knife outside the East Tupper Street mission,...
View ArticleBuffalo man indicted in trio of suburban break-ins
A Buffalo man has been indicted on charges he burglarized the home of a 79-year-old Elma man and carried out other residential break-ins in Newstead and on Grand Island in August and September.Bryan...
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