Buffalo man indicted in three more area burglaries
A 33-year-old Niagara Street man already jailed and facing trial in three Western New York burglaries remained jailed Thursday after Senior Erie County Judge Michael L. D’Amico increased his bail from...
View ArticleTwo killed, four injured in QEW crash
ST. CATHARINES, Ont. – Two men were killed and four people were injured – two seriously – in a four-vehicle crash at about 4 a.m. Thursday on the Queen Elizabeth Way near St. Catharines, Ont. The...
View ArticleAnti-gay marriage group given another day in court
A federal appeals court has given a national group opposed to gay marriage a second chance to challenge New York State’s campaign disclosure laws.The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower...
View ArticleMan accused of striking boy, 6, on back with belt
A 35-year-old Lilac Street man was charged with assault, weapons possession and child endangerment after he allegedly struck a 6-year-old boy on the back with a heavy leather belt after the boy had an...
View ArticleAggravated DWI charged after troopers stop weaving vehicle
A 21-year-old Amherst man was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated early Tuesday after he was observed weaving along Main Street in Clarence, state police reported.Clayton J. Schmidt, of...
View ArticleTrespass and loitering charged at Canisius College
A 44-year-old Glenwood Avenue man who had reportedly been warned in the past to stay off Canisius College property was arrested there early Tuesday. Derrick L. Cobb was charged with trespass and...
View ArticleTurley gets 15 to 30 years in jail for sex abuse
The stepdaughter and stepniece who were victims of child molester Paul S. Turley spoke about their ordeals Friday after a judge sentenced him to 15 to 30 years in prison.“If you have a life similar to...
View ArticleEx-Falls building commissioner gets probation for accepting gifts
In the end, the free golf outings and all expense-paid fishing trip cost Guy A. Bax a felony record.The former Niagara Falls official who steered business to contractor John J. Gross Jr. in return for...
View ArticleFamily wants answers after man’s death in ECMC ruled homicide
The recent homicide ruling in the death last November of burglary suspect Richard Metcalf Jr. at Erie County Medical Center has left his parents “emotionally spent,” a family spokesman said.“Again,...
View ArticleSeven charged in Jamestown drug bust
JAMESTOWN -- Three men and four women were taken into custody during Jamestown police raids Friday morning on two apartments at 916 North Main St. where police seized crack cocaine, prescription drug...
View ArticleGang member convicted in shooting that targeted witness
A Town of Tonawanda man was convicted Friday of wounding an innocent female bystander when he was trying to shoot a witness in a murder case just after midnight last Aug. 5.Eric Smith, 23, a member of...
View ArticleMan convicted of raping best friend’s girlfriend
LOCKPORT – After more than five hours of deliberation over two days, a Niagara County Court jury on Friday convicted a Lockport man of raping his best friend’s girlfriend almost two years ago.Dalvan...
View ArticleTown of Lockport meth lab busted
A 27-year-old Town of Lockport man was arrested and a suspected meth lab in a Ruhlman Road home in the township was busted about 8 a.m. Friday by the Niagara County Drug Task Force and state...
View ArticleMan charged with trying to kill girl loses lawyer
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man charged with the attempted murder of a 7-year-old girl on New Year’s Eve lost his attorney Friday because of a conflict of interest.Assistant Public Defender Michele G....
View ArticleTwo men sentenced on cocaine charges in Niagara
LOCKPORT – The charge was the same but the sentences differed in two drug cases before Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas Friday.Kevin I. Kelly, 19, of John Street, Lockport, went to state...
View ArticleSLA closes University Heights bar for sale of alcohol to minors
Mojo’s, a popular Main Street bar near the University at Buffalo’s South Campus was shut down Friday by the State Liquor Authority for alleged sales of alcohol to minors.Dennis Rosen, chair of the...
View ArticleBuffalo man gets 10-year federal prison term for cocaine trafficking
Ramone Perry, 32, of Buffalo, on Friday was ordered by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to serve 10 years in federal prison and then face eight years of post-release supervision on a conviction...
View ArticleCity man arrested with 18 pounds of pot in his car
A 30-year-old Buffalo man was arrested Friday on drug charges after about 18 pounds of marijuana valued at $40,000 were seized from his car.Andrew Powell, who lists a Gilbert Street address, was...
View ArticleSupervisor, deputy end standoff in Elma
Erie County Sheriff’s Deputy Timothy J. Higgins’ exile from the sheriff’s substation in Elma is over.Higgins, a 27-year veteran of the Erie County Sheriff’s Office, will return to the substation in...
View ArticleDamage to DWI suspect’s vehicle leads to possible hit-and-run charges
A Rhode Island man charged with driving while intoxicated late Friday night in Lancaster, was later turned over to Cheektowaga police where he faces possible charges for a hit-and-run accident that...
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