Orchard Park man charged with cocaine possession and DWI
A 57-year-old Orchard Park man was arrested on cocaine possession and drunken driving charges after Orchard Park police received a call about a man driving a luxury car down Milestrip Road without...
View ArticleOff-duty officers rescue man from burning home
Todd Chenez and Michael Stover were halfway through their three-mile run Monday afternoon, when they spotted a woman running down her driveway on Hawley Street, yelling out that her husband was...
View ArticleFour injured in Youngmann Highway rollover accident
A one-car rollover accident early Tuesday morning sent four people to Erie County Medical Center and forced authorities to close one entrance and one exit ramp off the Youngmann Highway, Town of...
View ArticleJury finds teen guilty for role in grisly North Buffalo killing
Jurors on Tuesday convicted a teenager of first-degree manslaughter for participating in the fatal stabbing of another teen last summer in North Buffalo.Seventeen-year-old Ezeiekile Nafi faces up to...
View ArticleMan caught in police chase, accused of stealing appliances
NIAGARA FALLS – Police responded to a burglary in progress call just before 3 p.m. Monday in the 1900 block of Whitney Avenue and saw a pickup that had been in the alley speeding away from the...
View ArticleMan allegedly dealing drugs at Niagara Falls motel
NIAGARA FALLS – A North Tonawanda man has been arrested by narcotics detectives, accused of selling drugs in a a Niagara Falls Boulevard motel room.Travis Broughton, 36, of Newell Drive, was charged...
View ArticleFormer county official becomes the victim of identity fraud
LEWISTON – No one is immune to being a victim of identity fraud.Former Niagara County Treasurer David S. Broderick Sr. contacted Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday after he found someone had...
View ArticleFalls sex offender admits felony
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls sex offender pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge of concealing a Facebook account from state authorities.Joseph M. Higdon, 25, of Niagara Falls Boulevard, admitted to...
View ArticleSnowmobile thief arrested and snowmobile recovered
MAYVILLE -- An 18-year-old Mayville man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a children’s snowmobile last month from a Burton Avenue home, the Chautauqua County Sheriff’s Office reported today....
View ArticleJamestown native killed in suburban Indianapolis home invasion
NEWS STAFF REPORTERServices were held Tuesday in Indiana for a Jamestown native who was shot to death during a home invasion at his suburban Indianapolis residence.Thomas Tefft, 67, was found dead...
View ArticleJudge OKs adding 10 defendants to Love Canal lawsuit
LOCKPORT – The plaintiffs in the new Love Canal lawsuit have been given permission to add 10 more defendants to the suit, taking its history all the way back to 1977, when the Niagara Falls toxic...
View ArticleHouston street man arrested in traffic stop
A 19-year-old Houston Street man was arrested at South Park and Bailey avenues early Tuesday for allegedly driving a car owned by a local auto leasing concern and for smoking marijuana in the vehicle...
View ArticleDefense gets its chance in much-delayed trial of Hoskins
Three years after animal-cruelty charges were brought against Beth Lynne Hoskins, her much-delayed trial moved into the defense phase Tuesday in Aurora Town Court.Hoskins faces charges tied to a March...
View ArticleThree held on burglary charges
STOCKTON – Three men suspected of involvement in a number of daytime burglaries in the Southern Tier and northeastern Pennsylvania were being held Tuesday in the Chautauqua County Jail on burglary...
View ArticleCounty to pay $90,000 in death of inmate denied medicine
Erie County will pay $90,000 to settle a lawsuit filed because a 54-year-old Holding Center inmate failed to receive crucial blood-pressure medicine while in the jail, suffered a stroke and then died...
View ArticleAlden man gets 20 years in child porn case
An Alden man who had been serving as a foster parent even though he was convicted many years ago of child molestation was sentenced Tuesday by Chief U.S. District Judge William M. Skretny to 20 years...
View ArticleAssault, drug charges follow altercation
A 36-year-old Hodge Avenue man was arrested on third-degree assault, drug and harassment charges after allegedly injuring a Prospect Avenue man during an argument in an Elmwood Avenue flat at 2:40...
View ArticleFalls man, 18, faces charge of felony gang assault
NIAGARA FALLS – Three men were injured – one of them stabbed and seriously hurt – when they were attacked by a gang on Pierce Avenue.Jonathan J. Singletary, 18, of 85th Street, was charged with felony...
View ArticleInvestment adviser gets 11 years for fraud
James Lagona’s fall from grace started with allegations of a Ponzi scheme that victimized dozens of people and culminated in a high-profile trial that found him guilty of fraud and conspiracy.If that...
View ArticleMan charged in death of 1-year-old Springville boy
For the second time in as many weeks, a little boy is dead and his mother’s boyfriend has been charged with his murder.The toddler was identified Wednesday as 1-year-old Austin Smith of Springville....
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