Senate confirms Rivera for state’s top court over GOP objections
ALBANY – Jenny Rivera was confirmed Monday by the full State Senate as a judge on the state’s highest court, a week after Senate Republicans raised concerns about her lack of judicial...
View ArticleMan charged with pulling knife out at Lockport bar
LOCKPORT – A female bartender at Lock 34 bar told city police she feared for her safety Sunday when a man pulled out a knife inside the bar.John W. Walsh, 29, of Washburn Street, was removed from the...
View ArticleLewiston man charged in 2007 assault, robbery
NIAGARA FALLS – A Lewiston man wanted on assault and robbery charges from 2007 was arrested on a warrant this week. Robert A. Campbell, 36, of Saunders Settlement Road, was charged with third-degree...
View ArticleNiagara Falls gas station clerk robbed at gunpoint
NIAGARA FALLS – Police were searching Wednesday for two men, one of them armed with a semiautomatic pistol, who robbed a Valero Gas Mart in the 4700 block of Hyde Park Boulevard.A clerk said one of...
View ArticleBuffalo man gets prison time for bank robberies
A Buffalo man was sentenced Wednesday by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to 7½ years in prison for bank robbery.Philip A. Purdue, 34, admitted robbing two banks in October and November of...
View ArticleMan charged in Tuesday shooting that wounded one
A Buffalo man was arrested today by Ferry-Fillmore police officers in connection with the shooting a day earlier of Odell Rainey, 30, on Moselle Street, near McKibben Street.Michael Wilson, 24, was...
View ArticleWest Seneca bank robber nabbed by Buffalo police
A West Seneca man was arrested by Buffalo police this afternoon, about six hours after he allegedly robbed a First National Bank branch in West Seneca.William Shanahan, 34, of Burch Street, was...
View ArticleEx-firefighter indicted on sex charges
A Medina man with a long history of working with children was indicted this week on charges he had sex with two 16-year-old boys, and posted nude pictures of them, while he was working as a Medina...
View ArticleTax preparer gets 30 months for fraud, but victims still owe IRS
Elizabeth Wopperer lost everything. She lost her business. She lost $40,000 in cash. And by the time it was all over, she found herself filing for bankruptcy.On top of all that, the IRS now wants the...
View ArticlePolice seize pound of pot, starving dog in East Side drug raid
Three men were charged with marijuana possession and animal cruelty after a drug raid this week on Courtland Avenue in Buffalo.Buffalo police seized more than a pound of marijuana and a severely...
View ArticleAiling prisoner vows to die in jail as protest
An angry prisoner told a judge Wednesday that he is ready to die in prison as a protest against the way he has been treated by the federal government.Frank J. Morrocco, who suffers from leukemia, told...
View ArticleWoman charged after pepper spraying incident
A Hewitt Avenue woman who pepper sprayed a security guard during an after school incident at South Park High School Tuesday night was charged with second-degree assault, police said.Willie J. Lewis,...
View ArticleDunkirk police arrest suspected serial burglar
Dunkirk police arrested a Canary Street man Wednesday whom they believe may be connected to a series of house burglaries in the area, officials said Thursday.Gualberto Gonzalez, 35, was taken into...
View ArticleFour rescued, one hurt in Lafayette Avenue blaze
Buffalo firefighters rescued a mother, father and five-month-old infant from the front porch roof of their two-family home on Lafayette Avenue on Thursday afternoon.Theia Moyer, 32, who admitted she...
View ArticleFalls man accused of dealing pot – again
NIAGARA FALLS – A city man, recently charged with marijuana possession, was arrested a second time in less than a month after narcotics investigators said they found him Wednesday with 27 individually...
View ArticleFalls man charged with child sex assault
NIAGARA FALLS – A Whitney Avenue man who was wanted on a warrant for two years on felony assault charges involving a child under age 13 has been arrested on Long Island and brought back to Niagara...
View ArticleShots cause damage to a house in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A resident in the 2400 block of Monroe Avenue told police that somebody shot through two panes of glass and a curtain Wednesday night in the front window of his house.Police said they...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty to making meth, damaging auto
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, who had been rejected for court-supervised drug treatment Monday, pleaded guilty Thursday and faces up to 2½ years behind bars when he is sentenced April 25 by Niagara...
View ArticleCourt rejects appeal by disbarred lawyer
Former County Legislator David Dale remains in the Erie County Correctional Facility after his latest effort to overturn convictions for fraud and illegally practicing law was denied by the Appellate...
View ArticleFalls cops raid three houses, condemn one
NIAGARA FALLS – City narcotics detectives gave a Valentine’s Day present Thursday to three neighborhoods that have weathered drug dealing.Police said they raided three houses in succession after...
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