Coffee shop, convenient store robberies solved in Tonawanda
Town of Tonawanda police say they’ve solved two recent robberies with the arrest of a 33-year-old town resident on Monday.The first robbery occurred early Friday morning, at the Tim Horton’s on...
View ArticleTwo more arrested in violent sunday stabbing and robbery
JAMESTOWN -- A 28-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman, both from Jamestown were arrested by Jamestown police Tuesday on conspiracy and robbery charges. Their arrests bring to four the number of...
View ArticleThree girls arrested outside Buffalo high school for fighting
Two female students at Buffalo’s DaVinci High and another girl who is not a student at the school have been arrested for fighting outside the school, Buffalo police reported Tuesday. The girls, two...
View Article‘Joy ride’ ends badly for mom, driver, 15
A bad idea turned worse Monday night for a 35-year-old Marilla mother who took two teens on a joy ride but then allowed a 15-year-old family friend to drive her car because she was too drunk,...
View ArticleFirst female federal judge on horizon for WNY
WASHINGTON – Western New York is likely to soon get its first-ever female federal judge.Sen. Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Tuesday that he is recommending that President Obama nominate...
View ArticleHoskins’ trial resumes; no medical issues raised
The animal cruelty trial of Beth Lynne Hoskins officially resumed Tuesday after nearly a 100-day lapse since late November due to various adjournments and delays.The SPCA’s second in command testified...
View ArticleMan charged with killing 3-year-old
Tashia Seneca went into her 3-year-old son’s bedroom Tuesday morning, expecting to find him fast asleep in his little play tent. Instead, she realized he wasn’t breathing.Investigators say his death...
View ArticleFalls man sent to prison in hit-run that killed woman, injured son
LOCKPORT – Francis A. Maikranz, who left the scene June 18 after his car struck and killed a Niagara Falls woman and injured her son, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 months to 4 years in state...
View ArticleTwo-story house in Cambria heavily damaged by fire
RANSOMVILLE – One firefighter was injured trying to get a heavy fire under control just after 11 a.m. today on Andrews Road. Officials believe the fire started in a wood stove. The fire was found...
View ArticleMan found in ditched car pleads guilty to felony DWI
LOCKPORT – A Tuscarora Indian Reservation man, who was found in a car in a ditch May 19 in Lewiston, has pleaded guilty in Niagara County Court to felony driving while intoxicated.Harry R. Jacobs III,...
View ArticleBouncer sent to jail after denying role in beating
LOCKPORT – A bouncer at a now-defunct Lockport bar, who pleaded guilty Jan. 2 to beating up a patron last year, was sentenced to a year in Niagara County Jail on Wednesday after denying he took part...
View ArticleBrant woman admits to vehicular manslaughter in crash fatal to infant
Danielle N. Kellogg, charged in a November crash that killed an infant, pleaded guilty Wednesday to first-degree vehicular manslaughter, a higher charge than she initially faced.Kellogg, 24, of Brant,...
View ArticleWoman indicted on check scam, two drugstore burglaries
LOCKPORT – A Cambria woman pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Niagara County Court to a 10-count indictment accusing her of taking part in a recent forged check scam and two 2011 drugstore...
View ArticleNewfane woman removed from treatment program, faces prison
LOCKPORT – A Newfane woman did not contest her ejection from the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment Wednesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.Brianna Jones, 30,...
View ArticleMan sentenced to prison for burglarizing churches
A Buffalo man who admitted to burglarizing two Baptist churches, one in West Seneca and the other in South Buffalo, was sentenced Wednesday to two to four years in prison.State Supreme Court Justice...
View ArticleRobbery suspect tries to escape at buffalo city court
A 45-year-old Buffalo robbery suspect’s attempt to escape custody after he was taken to Buffalo City Court was foiled by Erie County Sheriff’s court deputies and Buffalo police officers about 11 a.m....
View ArticleFormer Somerset justice placed on probation in car incident
LOCKPORT – Former Somerset Town Justice Jeffery P. Wick was placed on three years’ probation and assigned to Niagara Falls Mental Health Court on Wednesday for an incident in which his teenage son...
View ArticleFatal shooting of taxi driver leaves fellow cabbies reeling
When Mazen M. Abdallah went missing after picking up a customer Wednesday morning, other cabbies who regularly work the Buffalo airport set out looking for him in the Bailey-Kensington...
View ArticleCheektowaga police forum looks at violence
Grisly sounds and images of school violence began the Cheektowaga Police Department’s town hall forum on the topic Wednesday night in the auditorium of Maryvale High School.There were wrenching...
View ArticleEx-Holland fire chief struck by a car and killed
Max Barron, a former Holland Volunteer Fire company chief, was fatally injured when struck by a northbound car in front of his south Protection Road home in Holland 10:14 a.m. today. Erie County...
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