Fire damages at recycling plant estimated at $2 million
LEWISTON – Damages are estimated at $2 million or more in a fire which destroyed a paper recycling facility at Modern Landfill Corp. on Pletcher Road Wednesday evening.“The recycling building appears...
View ArticleBuffalo police resume summertime foot and bike patrols
Buffalo police officers became more visible today as the department resumed its annual summertime foot and bicycle patrols in each of the department’s five districts.“Foot and bike patrol units...
View ArticleFormer Amherst police detective found dead
Lee County, Fla., medical examiners said Thursday that Arthur Hohensee, a 74-year-old retired Amherst police detective, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after a tense incident in his home...
View ArticleMan with gun causes brief high school lockdown
A distraught 43-year-old Albion man reportedly armed with a handgun prompted the brief lockdown of Albion High School this afternoon before he peacefully surrendered to Albion police about 2:15...
View ArticleFalls man chooses prison over drug treatment
LOCKPORT – Ramone A. Westbrook of Niagara Falls decided to plead guilty to a drug felony Friday in Niagara County Court without entering court-supervised drug treatment. Defense attorney James J. Faso...
View ArticleJamestown man charged with selling cocaine
JAMESTOWN – A 23-year-old Jamestown man was taken into custody Friday afternoon following an investigation by Jamestown police into his alleged crack cocaine trafficking in the city. Alex Oliveras was...
View ArticleMother and son arraigned on Falls drug dealing charges
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls woman and her son appeared in Niagara County Court Friday to answer drug-dealing indictments.Evelyn George, 48, and Eddie George, 27, of Ninth Street, each pleaded not...
View ArticleArizona man charged after accident in Attica
ATTICA – A 29-year-old Arizona man was ordered held at the Wyoming County Jail following his arraignment Friday in Attica Village Court shortly after he was involved in a drunken driving accident in...
View ArticleK9 saves day in multi-agency drug raid
NIAGARA FALLS –“Tank,” the Town of Tonawanda Police K9 dog, was the only “officer” to uncover any evidence during an early-morning raid Friday at the home of a suspected Niagara Falls drug dealer.The...
View ArticleDrugs, cash seized in Hyde Park Avenue arrest
A 26-year-old suspected Niagara Falls drug dealer was arrested on felony drug charges as Niagara Falls police narcotics detectives and the department’s Emergency Response Team broke into his apartment...
View ArticleNiagara Falls ex-con arrested with drugs, gun
NIAGARA FALLS – A 28-year-old ex-convict was arrested on weapons and drug charges and his automobile was seized by Niagara Falls Police narcotics detectives during an early-morning raid Thursday....
View ArticleFalls police arrest 14 in raid at crack house
NIAGARA FALLS – Fourteen people, including alleged drug dealer Ray A. Harris, were arrested as Niagara Falls Police Narcotics Bureau detectives raided what was described as “a classic crack house”...
View ArticleDrunken driver must sell motorcycle, spend Mondays, Tuesdays in jail
LOCKPORT – An Akron man who pleaded guilty to felony driving while intoxicated will spend his Mondays and Tuesdays in the Niagara County Jail for the next four months, State Supreme Court Justice...
View ArticleMan shot several times in East Side home
A 23-year-old man was shot several times at on the 200 block of Roslyn Street about 4:20 a.m. Saturday, Northeast District police reported.The victim, identified as Johaan Littlejohn, was rushed to...
View ArticleMan, 83, killed in crash in Niagara Falls. Ont.
NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. – An 83-year-old man was killed early Saturday morning in a crash on Catalina Street.The victim was identified by authorities as Stanley Stevens of Niagara Falls.The crash occurred...
View Article58 cartons of cigarettes stolen from delivery truck
Two men made off with 58 cartons of cigarettes by slipping into a delivery truck Saturday morning at the 7-Eleven store at 959 Niagara St.Central District police said the cigarettes were stolen from a...
View ArticleEast Side man robbed of cash, jewelry, clothes
A man was robbed at gunpoint of $400 in cash, a large amount of jewelry and his hat and sneakers, Northeast District police said early Saturday.The robbery occurred at East Delavan and Courtland...
View ArticleOne or two injured in bar fight
A fight at the 4Play nightclub on Chippewa Street early Sunday morning resulted in one woman taken to the hospital with a cut on her face, and possibly a second woman sustaining an injured hand,...
View ArticleTires and rims stolen from car
When a Riverside man went to his car Sunday morning, it was all there -- except the tires.The man’s 2008 Honda was parked in front of his Clayton Street sitting atop bricks. The tires and rims had...
View ArticleSpringville feed mill burns
Four fire companies responded to a fire that broke out at the Gramco feed mill Sunday afternoon in Springville.The fire broke out around 2 p.m. at the mill, located at 299 Waverly St., according to a...
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