Fighting North Collins fire hits home for local chief
As volunteer firefighters raced to the scene of a house fire on Langford Road in North Collins on Tuesday night, the first person to respond, Langford-New Oregon Fire Chief Charles Hohman, knew the...
View ArticleEx-trooper gets probation for role in parties with prostitutes
Titus Z. Taggart, an 18-year veteran of the State Police who was fired last summer after an internal investigation into allegations he was involved with off-duty parties with prostitutes, was...
View Article32-year-old man convicted on weapons charge
A week-long jury trial has led to the conviction of Gerald Hogue, 32, on a second-degree weapons possession charge following an August 2011 arrest, Erie County District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III...
View ArticleSwitching seats with passenger leads to guilty plea
Changing seats with a passenger just before entering a DWI checkpoint didn’t work for a 50-year-old Buffalo man.Jose R. Serrano Jr., of Linwood Avenue, has pleaded guilty to felony DWI and aggravated...
View ArticleClarendon man killed in Byron collision
BYRON – A 29-year-old Clarendon man was killed when he was thrown from his pickup truck as it overturned after being struck by an SUV at about 9 a.m. today on State Route 262 at Chapel Road, state...
View ArticlePython found in Perry home
PERRY – A 39-year-old South Main Street man was arrested and a Burmese Python snake was safely removed from his home by agents of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Wildlife...
View ArticleTwo killed in three-car crash in Wilson
WILSON – Speed is being investigated as a factor in a three car crash that killed two Wilson drivers just before 4 p.m. today on Wilson-Burt Road.“That distance [of the crash pattern] between 400 to...
View ArticleTonawanda Coke exec’s lawyer offers rebuttal at trial
If there’s a human face to the Tonawanda Coke trial, it’s Mark L. Kamholz.It is Kamholz, the company executive in charge of environmental compliance for three decades, who stands accused of trying to...
View ArticleFalls man draws five years in prison for double stabbing
LOCKPORT – Derrick L. Hall, who stabbed two men in the abdomen in a confrontation over alleged vehicle break-ins in Niagara Falls, was sentenced Wednesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas...
View ArticleDefiant burglary suspect takes plea deal
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who told police he would beat a burglary charge pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges Tuesday in Niagara County Court, as a felony charge was dismissed.Marc Madore,...
View ArticleProbation violation charged against driver in DWI fatal
LOCKPORT – A Tuscarora Indian Reservation woman, who received a probation sentence after pleading guilty to crashing her car and killing her cousin, was jailed without bail Wednesday after being...
View ArticleMan sentenced to probation in Falls drug case
LOCKPORT – Five years’ probation was the sentence from Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas Wednesday for a Niagara Falls man who pleaded guilty to having nearly half an ounce of cocaine when...
View ArticleCambria woman takes plea deal in drugstore burglaries
LOCKPORT – A Cambria woman will be sentenced to either one year in Niagara County Jail or five years’ probation after accepting a plea bargain Wednesday in connection with two 2011 drugstore...
View ArticleTwo Wilson residents, Clarendon man killed in separate car crashes
Three persons were killed in two separate crashes Wednesday on Western New York highways.Two drivers from Wilson died after a three-car collision just before 4 p.m. on Wilson-Burt Road in Niagara...
View ArticleAirport Taxi workers raise $5,000 to help find killer
Co-workers of the late Mazen Abdallah at the Airport Taxi company said Wednesday that they have raised $5,000 to offer as a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer or...
View Article2 face robbery, prostitution counts
A 59-year-old Cheektowaga man and a 25-year-old Buffalo woman were being held Tuesday on robbery and prostitution-related charges linked to an alleged online extortion scheme linked to lonely men...
View Article2 plead guilty in armed robbery of woman
A 53-year-old Plymouth Avenue man and an 18-year-old Buffalo man have pleaded guilty in the armed robbery of a 21-year-old woman during an armed holdup at a McDonald’s restaurant on Niagara Street...
View ArticleTonawanda Coke, top executive found guilty of federal charges
In the end, it may have come down to the workers.One by one, they took the witness stand and testified about benzene emissions and toxic sludge and how Tonawanda Coke seemed nervous about government...
View ArticleGrease fire causes heavy damage in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A grease fire that got out of control was blamed for a blaze that caused $35,000 damage just after 9:30 p.m. Wednesday to a house at 2235 Cleveland Avenue.David Thomas, who is in his...
View ArticleMan found stopped in roadway charged with drunken driving
PENDLETON – Niagara County sheriff deputies said they found a Lockport man parked at 7:22 p.m. Wednesday in the 5800 block of Donner Road with a green balloon in his hands and held up to his mouth....
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