Man charged in May homicide on 18th Street
A 27-year-old man has been charged in the fatal shooting of a man last May on 18th Street, Buffalo police announced Friday night.Rayshawn Bethany, for whom no home address was released, was charged...
View ArticleFire damages Town of Lockport house
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A fire that may have started in the chimney damaged a two-story house at 6054 Crosby Road early Friday evening. The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office was alerted to the fire at 7:13...
View ArticleThree arrested in narcotics raid on Grand Island
Two men and a woman were arrested by Erie County Sheriff’s Narcotics Unit detectives during a Friday morning raid on a Carl Road duplex. Dezeree Salley, 28, of Niagara Falls; Michael Giordano, 32, of...
View ArticleCourt cancels transfer of contaminated Lockport store
LOCKPORT – A judge has canceled Patrick S. McFall’s transfer of the contaminated former Peters Dry Cleaning in Lockport to a man who said he was illiterate.The March 1 order from State Supreme Court...
View ArticleTwo charged for stealing furnace, trying to take water tank
Two Northumberland Avenue men are being held on burglary and other charges for allegedly stealing a furnace from a vacant Lark Street home and trying to steal a hot water tank from an occupied Dutton...
View ArticleTeen arrested in Newfane ‘milk smashing’ prank
A Newfane High School senior was arrested Friday in a “milk smashing” prank at a Tops Market in the town after he was recognized by store employees and bragged about his actions on Facebook.The...
View ArticleEPA official says coke plant spewed tons of gas into air
Following a six-day inspection in 2009, Tonawanda Coke told federal officials that toxic emissions from a small bleeder valve at the plant were rare and didn’t last long when they did occur.For the...
View ArticleBuffalo police looking for information on cab driver’s mailed wallet...
Buffalo police are asking for the public’s help in determining how the driver’s license of a slain taxicab driver was put into a mailbox after his body was discovered Wednesday morning.Police also are...
View ArticleRandolph school bus driver jailed on sexual-abuse charges
A 66-year-old Randolph school bus driver is in the Chautauqua County Jail without bail, following his arrest on felony sexual-abuse charges involving a child, authorities reported.John Hitchcock has...
View ArticleFirefighters battle three fires Saturday
Buffalo firefighters spent a busy late morning and early afternoon Saturday, battling three blazes in occupied homes that caused more than $180,000 in damages and left seven people temporarily...
View ArticleAmbulances dispatched to crash on outbound Kensington near Bailey Avenue
Emergency crews and police converged on the scene of a crash on the outbound Kensington Expressway near the Bailey Avenue exit about 3:30 p.m. Saturday. Outbound traffic was backed up considerably,...
View ArticleChimney fire chases elderly couple from Town of Lockport home
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A blaze chased an elderly couple from their Crosby Road home Friday night after a chimney fire spread into the upstairs ceilings, authorities said.The fire, which broke out about...
View ArticleMan, woman questioned as possible suspects in holdups
CAMBRIA – Investigators are questioning two Lockport residents as possible suspects in a recent bank robbery, after they were pulled over Friday morning while police sought suspects from another bank...
View ArticleTools valued at $2,000 stolen in Chilton Avenue truck break-in
NIAGARA FALLS – At least $2,000 worth of hand and power tools were stolen from a truck parked outside a Chilton Avenue home overnight Friday, police said.Items stolen include several saws, routers,...
View ArticleFour shot, one fatally, in city’s Bailey-East Delavan area
Four people were shot, one fatally, overnight Friday in three incidents within a 10-block area of the city’s Bailey-East Delavan neighborhood.A 22-year-old man who was shot drove a couple of blocks...
View ArticleTheft of high-voltage wiring traced to electrician
LE ROY – A LeRoy man has been charged with theft of high-voltage wiring, police said Saturday.Michael A. Nicometo, 28, was charged with third-degree burglary, second-degree grand larceny and...
View ArticleFrom the blotter / Police calls and court cases, Feb. 21 to March 2
A Buffalo couple told Niagara Falls police that property was stolen from their rental car overnight Thursday while it was in the valet parking lot at the Seneca Niagara Casino & Hotel. A cellphone...
View ArticleTeen’s tragic death leads to triumph for other students
Ricky Costner Jr. was gunned down by a co-worker inside a Delaware Avenue restaurant three years ago, bringing a promising young life to a tragic end.But from Ricky’s death has come the chance to help...
View ArticleMany Love Canal plaintiffs no longer live in Falls
Nearly one-third of the people who recently applied to join a Love Canal lawsuit no longer live in Niagara Falls.And at least one of those people, according to a Buffalo News analysis of court...
View ArticleFalls man charged with Lockport bank robbery
LOCKPORT – Lockport detectives arrested a Niagara Falls man at his home about 3 a.m. today and charged him with Friday morning’s robbery of the M&T Bank branch at Pine and Walnut streets in...
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