Gunshots pepper vehicle parked in Falls alley
NIAGARA FALLS – Shots were fired at the car of a 22nd Street man about 7 p.m. Sunday, Niagara Falls police said. The owner said that just before 7 p.m. he heard shots fired in the alley behind his...
View ArticleTwo men sought in theft of laptop computers from Walmart
LOCKPORT – Niagara County sheriff’s deputies are investigating the March 14 theft of two laptop compurters Sunday from Walmart.According to store surveillance video, one man took two laptops and...
View ArticleFire leaves $17,000 damage to Riverside house
Buffalo firefighters confined an fire that broke out early Monday to the first floor of a vacant house in the city’s Riverside section.Firefighters responded to a 4:09 a.m. alarm at 89 Grace St., one...
View ArticleCheektowaga town justice issues maximum sentence following car chase
A Cheektowaga town justice has imposed the maximum 30-day jail sentence following a guilty plea by a Buffalo man involved in a high-speed chase with Cheektowaga police in early March.Town Justice Paul...
View ArticleElma crash into telephone pole leads to DWI arrest
An East Aurora man whose car smashed into a telephone pole late Monday night in Elma has been charged with driving while intoxicated, Erie County sheriff’s officials reported.While on patrol at about...
View ArticleCourt issues mixed verdict in malpractice suit over stroke
The state’s highest court Tuesday reversed a medical malpractice award of $9.6 million for pain and suffering that a jury awarded an Olean excavation contractor left paralyzed by an undiagnosed brain...
View ArticleFalls teen jailed on home invasion indictment
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas jailed a 17-year-old from Niagara Falls in lieu of $100,000 bail Tuesday after he pleaded not guilty to an eight-count indictment accusing him of...
View ArticleTwo locked out end up locked up on felony drug charges
LOCKPORT – City police responded to a 911 hang up call early this morning and found a man and woman couldn’t get into their hotel room at the Comfort Inn on South Transit Road. Poice were asked to...
View ArticlePearl street man tries to flee accident
A 38-year-old Pearl Street man was charged with driving while intoxicated and other counts after allegedly trying to drive off after running into a parked car on Woodside Avenue, only to be pursued by...
View ArticleOver $1,000 worth of electronics stolen from Falls vehicle
NIAGARA FALLS – A 38th Street man told police Sunday that his car radio, GPS and radar detector were stolen from his vehicle overnight.The victim said his 2001 Hyundai Accent was parked in rear of...
View ArticleShoplifting with six-month old child
A 23-year-old Kensington Avenue woman was charged with walking out of a Delaware Avenue store Monday afternoon while trying to hide two purses a store security guard allegedly saw her take as she...
View ArticleA vacant building in the Falls is damaged by gunfire
NIAGARA FALLS – Windows were damaged by gunfire at a vacant building owned by the Knights of Columbus at 755 West Market St. This is the second time the building windows have had to replaced because...
View ArticleA discarded cigarette leads to fire
LOCKPORT – A fire on the back deck at an apartment building on Oxford Lane caused about $2,000 damage to the building’s exterior Tuesday afternoon. A gasoline can on the deck reportedly was ignited by...
View ArticleMedina man charged with stealing fish from a Lockport pet store
LOCKPORT – A Medina man allegedly walked into a West Avenue pet store Monday afternoon and asked for a clerk to remove four bags of fish from the store’s tank, then left with two of these bags, valued...
View ArticleCanadian arrested for marijuana at Peace Bridge
A 33-year-old Canadian man was arrested by Buffalo police at the Peace Bridge about 9 p.m. Monday after a Homeland Security agent said he found a ziplock bag containing 33 grams of marijuana that the...
View ArticleTwo men struck, seriously hurt outside their disabled vehicle in Hamburg
Two men standing in front of their disabled vehicle were critically injured in Hamburg late Monday night, when their SUV was struck by a pickup truck, whose driver later was charged with driving while...
View ArticleSheriff’s dispatcher in custody on vehicular assault charge
A 28-year-old dispatcher for the Erie County Sheriff’s Officer was in custody Tuesday night to await court action on a charge of vehicular assault and other counts arising from a traffic accident late...
View ArticleDriver shot by Buffalo police had high blood-alcohol level
The driver Buffalo police fatally shot in December before his out-of-control vehicle crashed into three light poles, killing a female pedestrian, had a blood-alcohol level four times the legal limit,...
View ArticleCondition of 4-year-old, attacked for crying, improves
The 4-year-old Buffalo girl cried too much and, because of that, was repeatedly attacked and bitten by her mother’s boyfriend, authorities said Tuesday.And it was only by chance, police say, that the...
View ArticleHigh rank in State Senate brings power that is often corrupting
ALBANY – The title of State Senate majority leader exudes Albany power.But with the arrest Tuesday of Democratic Sen. Malcolm Smith of Queens, three of the four most recent majority leaders have later...
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