Lockport woman pleads guilty in check fraud case
LOCKPORT – Shana L. Wallace, 21, of Lock Street, one of four women charged in a check fraud scheme, pleaded guilty Wednesday in State Supreme Court, where Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. set sentencing...
View ArticleGrand Island man takes plea during DWI trial
LOCKPORT – A Grand Island man cut short his jury trial on a felony drunken driving charge in Niagara County Court Tuesday by accepting a plea offer to misdemeanor driving while intoxicated.Timothy J....
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda man sentenced to three years on drug charge
LOCKPORT – A man who flunked out of court-supervised treatment programs for drug addiction and mental illness was sentenced to three years in prison Wednesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon...
View ArticleBuffalo school teacher injured by second-grader
A female teacher at Buffalo School 90 had to be treated in Erie County Medical Center for head injuries suffered Wednesday morning during an incident with a second-grade boy, Buffalo police...
View ArticleLockport teen struck by motorist on Transit Street
LOCKPORT – Mercy Flight was called when a 15-year-old city boy was injured this morning after he was hit by a car while crossing South Transit Street at Lincolnshire Drive.The boy, whose name was not...
View ArticleBuffalo pair plead guilty to cocaine sales
Two Buffalo men have pleaded guilty to federal cocaine trafficking charges before U.S. Magistrate Judge Leslie G. Foschio, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr. announced Wednesday.Christopher Carluccio,...
View ArticleFalls trucker charged after fatal pedestrian crash in Pittsburgh
A Niagara Falls, Ont. truck driver remains free on bond after being arraigned in Pittsburgh this morning on a charge in Pennsylvania that is the equivalent of a New York State charge of leaving the...
View ArticleProstitution charge dropped against ‘Wife Swap’ star
A prostitution charge was dropped Tuesday in Pembroke Town Court against a former reality TV star from Williamsville, according to the Genesee County District Attorney’s Office.Alicia Guastaferro, 21,...
View ArticleCorfu men charged on drug counts after marijuana raid
Two Corfu men were arrested on drug charges Wednesday after a raid on a Main Road house the pair allegedly were using to grow marijuana and sell LSD.The house was raided Wednesday afternoon by agents...
View ArticleTwo who took a lost credit card sought by Amherst police
Amherst detectives are trying to track down the man and woman who used credit cards that were in the wallet a man lost in an Amherst restaurant parking lot Nov. 29.Detectives said store security...
View ArticleGuilty plea entered in heroin incident
A Buffalo man has pleaded guilty to drug and child-endangerment charges for an incident in which he flung heroin in a hotel room as Town of Tonawanda police showed up with a search warrant on Oct. 30,...
View ArticleBuffalo, control board win living wage suit
A lawsuit that sought retroactive pay for seasonal sanitation workers in Buffalo under the city’s living-wage ordinance was dismissed Thursday by the state’s highest court. The Court of Appeals found...
View ArticleNo foul play suspected in Lockport unattended death
LOCKPORT – No foul play is suspected in the unattended death of a 56-year-old Grand Street woman found in her home on Wednesday. There were earlier reports that had called the case a homicide, but...
View ArticleFire destroys Rathke Road house
WRIGHTS CORNERS – Two volunteer fire departments responded to a fire in a small wood-frame house on a dead-end street behind the Tops Plaza in Wrights Corners just before 1 p.m. today. No injuries were...
View ArticleLockport man charged with rape for alleged relationship with teen
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man was arrested by state troopers today after an investigation into his allegedly illegal sexual activities with a teenage girl in the Village of Barker last year, State Police...
View ArticleRestitution, probation ordered in $337,541 theft from employer
An embezzler who sold her home to pay back some of the money she stole from her Buffalo employer was ordered Thursday to also pay $300 a month in additional restitution for the next 10 years.Janice...
View ArticleLockport woman says intruder kissed her outside home
LOCKPORT – Lockport police were joined by Niagara County sheriff’s deputies, New York State Police troopers, K-9 units and a U.S. Border Patrol helicopter in a search for a man who reportedly stole a...
View ArticleBuffalo man gets 6 years in restaurant robbery
A Buffalo man convicted of robbing the Outback Steakhouse in Hamburg at gunpoint in September 2011 was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison.Joseph Tucker III, 30, was the only defendant to stand...
View ArticleMan stabbed on Langfield
A 29-year-old Buffalo man was stabbed repeatedly early this morning, leaving him hospitalized at Erie County Medical Center, police said.He was attacked in the 200 block of Langfield Drive just before...
View ArticleJudge blocks plea deal in Falls slashing
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas said no to a misdemeanor plea offer for a Niagara Falls woman accused of the June 12 slashing of her 19-year-old cousin with a razor blade on...
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