Convicted man rated Level 2 sex offender
LOCKPORT – David J. Grover, the Town of Tonawanda man who twice within five years allegedly took small girls from their homes in North Tonawanda, was rated a Level 2 sex offender Thursday as a result...
View ArticleBanned customer accused of menacing workers at store
A 19-year-old Condon Avenue man previously banned from the Riverside Newsstand store at 778 Tonawanda St. was arrested there on petit larceny, trespass, menacing and harassment charges after he...
View ArticleWoman kicked by donkey is treated at ECMC
APPLETON – A 66-year-old woman was taken to Erie County Medical Center, Buffalo, for injuries she suffered when she was kicked by a donkey Tuesday morning at her home at 7348 Hoffman Road.The victim,...
View ArticleMan in drug treatment pleads guilty to more crimes
LOCKPORT – Donald J. Frey, of Lockport, who has been in a court-supervised drug treatment program for 13 months after admitting to burglary, pleaded guilty to two more crimes Wednesday, including the...
View ArticleTonawanda boy, 3, drowns in neighbor’s pool
A three-year-old boy who wandered away from his Crane Place home drowned about 1 p.m. Thursday in a backyard pool on Cowper Circle in the Town of Tonawnanda.Police withheld the name of the boy, but...
View ArticleChief Justice at home in Jamestown
JAMESTOWN – From a small front porch, on a warm, sunny day, one of Hamburg’s own stood before a crowd of more than 2,000 and, once and for all, answered the question, who can claim him as its native...
View ArticleElderly man badly injured in explosion of gasoline tank
ALBION – A 75-year-old Town of Carlton man was flown by Mercy Flight helicopter to Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester for treatment of severe burns he suffered Friday morning when a 200-gallon...
View ArticleEast Pembroke girl struck by minivan while crossing road
EAST PEMBROKE – A six-year-old East Pembroke girl was flown by Mercy Flight to Buffalo’s Women & Children’s Hospital for treatment after she was struck by a minivan at about 4 p.m. Friday when she...
View ArticleMotorcyclist injured, may face charges
RIPLEY – A 24-year-old Town of Ripley man remains in critical condition in an Erie, Pa. hospital with injuries he suffered when he lost control of his Harley-Davidson motorcycle as he was moving a...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda man pleads guilty to vehicular assault
A North Tonawanda man pleaded guilty Friday to smashing into a parked car on Niagara Falls Boulevard, ejecting and seriously injuring the occupant of the vehicle.Erie County District Attorney Frank A....
View ArticleW. Seneca motorcyclist killed in Transit Road collision identified
A 21-year-old West Seneca motorcyclist was killed Friday afternoon when he drove into the side of a car in the 6100 block of Transit Road in Depew.Depew police said Eric M. Fontaine was traveling...
View ArticleNeighborhood complaints prompt Falls drug arrests
NIAGARA FALLS – Neighborhood complaints about guns and drugs resulted in the arrest of two women and a man in separate raids by the Narcotics Bureau of the Niagara Falls Police Department.Capt. David...
View ArticleStolen purse, cell phone and debit card recovered
A 59-year-old Johnson Street man was arrested for allegedly stealing a woman’s purse, cell phone and debit card sometime Thursday in downtown Buffalo. Preston P. Parson was charged with grand larceny,...
View ArticleAmherst motorcyclist injured in Maple Road accident
A 69-year-old Amherst man was taken by ambulance to Erie County Medical Center for treatment of a head injury he suffered when a driver struck his motorcycle at about 4 p.m. Friday in the 3800 block...
View ArticleJudge forbids teen convicted in puppy-burning case from owning animals
A Buffalo man involved in setting a Jack Russell terrier on fire last fall received a six-month jail sentence Friday. But given the time Diondre Brown already served during his prosecution, he was...
View ArticleRobbery victim directs police to suspect using phone locator
An out-of-town visitor played detective last week, using the “Find My Phone” app on his iPhone 4S to find the man suspected of stealing it.Thanks to the fast thinking of Timothy Semon, a New York City...
View ArticleM&T robber may have targeted same bank two weeks ago
The man who robbed the M&T Bank in South Buffalo on Friday may have been the same man who robbed the same bank nearly two weeks ago, police said Saturday.The robbery occurred about 4 p.m. at the...
View ArticleMotorcyclist killed in crash on Plank Road in Cambria
CAMBRIA – A crash on Plank Road in the Town of Cambria killed a motorcyclist Saturday afternoon.The incident happened just after 4 p.m. near the intersectioM of North Ridge and Ridge roads, THE...
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