Audit airs concerns about PBA spending
Union dues from Buffalo police officers financed lavish trips to out-of-town conferences for Police Benevolent Association officers, their spouses or significant others, according to a draft audit...
View ArticleMan fatally stabbed on Tonawanda Street late Saturday
A dispute between two, maybe more, people led to the stabbing death of a 20-year-old man Saturday night.Buffalo Police said the stabbing occurred in the 400 block of Tonawanda Street just before 11...
View ArticleWestfield infant dies of injuries suffered in I-86 crash in Mina
MINA – A 1-year-old boy died Saturday of injuries from a crash in Chautauqua County last week.Achilles McBride of Westfield was a passenger in a pickup driven by Matthew McBride, 39, which crashed...
View ArticleSearch continues for man believed to have been swept over falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A man was spotted early Saturday evening walking onto the ice and into the Niagara River near the brink of Horseshoe Falls.Niagara State Park Police are still searching for the man but...
View Article14 accused of trespassing at vacant Perrysburg site
PERRYSBURG – State police charged 14 people Sunday with trespassing at a vacant state hospital in Perrysburg.Police said a tip about footprints and tire trucks at the J.N. Adam facility led troopers...
View ArticleDWI charges logged in arrests following crashes, altercation
Local police arrested four people for driving while intoxicated over the weekend following two accidents and an altercation with officers.Erie County Sheriff’s deputies said they arrested Scott A....
View ArticleTwo men linked to Ontario burglary ring
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – Two Niagara Falls, Ont., men were arrested Sunday in connection with a string of burglaries at local businesses.Niagara Regional Police said Kenneth Chapman, 47, and John Visca,...
View ArticleOrchard Park standoff ends peacefully after 2½ hours
A 23-year-old Orchard Park man surrendered to authorities early Sunday evening after barricading himself in his bedroom for about 2½ hours with a loaded rifle and multiple knives, Orchard Park police...
View ArticleNiagara Falls woman shot in face
NIAGARA FALLS – A Niagara Falls woman was shot in the face Sunday night during a dispute on Cedar Avenue.Ebony Starks, 25, of Ninth Street was treated and released from Niagara Falls Memorial Medical...
View ArticleAccident in Niagara Falls, Ont. sends man to ECMC
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – A 26-year-old city man was being treated at Erie County Medical Center after he was injured in a single-vehicle crash on the Niagara Parkway Sunday night, Niagara Regional Police...
View ArticleBuffalo man arrested for selling crack in Dunkirk
DUNKIRK – A Buffalo man was arrested on charges of selling crack cocaine following a three-month investigation by the Southern Tier Regional Drug Task Force, officials announced Monday.Rodney G....
View ArticleMan brandishes gun during UB pickup basketball game
One man brandished a gun but no shots were fired during a dispute over a pick-up basketball game this afternoon at the University at Buffalo South Campus, according to university reports.The...
View ArticleTwo shot in apparent Falls murder-suicide
NIAGARA FALLS – Two people are dead after an apparent murder-suicide Monday night off Hyde Park Boulevard, city police said.Police Superintendent E. Bryan Dalporto said the double-shooting happened...
View ArticleDarnell Jackson sent to jail for eight days
Darnell Jackson Sr., a former gang member-turned community activist, has been ordered to the Erie County Correctional Facility for eight days for violating the conditions of his domestic violence...
View ArticleFalls detective cites quick confession in girl’s killing
LOCKPORT – Once his accomplice told police what happened, it didn’t take long for John R. Freeman Jr. to confess to killing a 5-year-old girl, a Niagara Falls detective testified Monday.Detective...
View ArticleInsulin pen suit targets Olean General
The scare over insulin pens has given rise to a legal battle over their use - a lawsuit by three people who claim they contracted hepatitis at Olean General Hospital.The three former patients are...
View ArticleBuffalo man charged in January 2012 slaying
A 21-year-old Buffalo man has been charged with second-degree murder in the January 2012 slaying of Adrian L. Huggins Jr., police said Tuesday.Laquan Morgan, who gave different East Side addresses for...
View ArticleTraffic stop leads to DWI arrest in Clarence
A 30-year-old Clarence man was charged with driving while intoxicated, speeding and marijuana possession following a traffic stop Monday evening in the Town of Clarence, state police reported.At about...
View ArticleFalls man, girlfriend dead in apparent murder-suicide
A Niagara Falls man apparently strangled his girlfriend and then slashed her throat, leaving her dead, before fatally shooting himself in her 29th Street home, city police said Tuesday. The deceased...
View ArticleMan charged with beating 2-year-old daughter
LOCKPORT – A Cheektowaga man was arraigned Tuesday in Niagara County Court on a seven-count indictment accusing him of beating his 2-year-old daughter in Niagara Falls Jan. 21.Bradley P. Zadul, 33, of...
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