Owner of dog killed in drug raid says police targeted wrong apartment
A West Side resident and Iraq War veteran with no criminal record is mourning the loss of his rescue dog who was fatally shot during a Buffalo police narcotics raid that apparently targeted the wrong...
View ArticlePhony doctor pleads guilty to fraud
A 53-year-old man from Dearborn Heights, Mich., who masqueraded as a hospital physician through much of the first decade of this century pleaded guilty Tuesday before Chief U.S. District Judge William...
View ArticleSeven Bennett students arrested
Seven Bennett High School students were arrested overnight for allegedly roughing up a city employee on May 16 at Shoshone Park, Mayor Byron W. Brown and Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said...
View ArticlePro-life group sues UB for allowing its demonstration to be disrupted
A national pro-life group claims the University at Buffalo looked the other way during an on-campus counter protest that turned ugly.The group, in a suit filed in U.S. District Court in Buffalo,...
View ArticleDepew woman admits selling prescription painkillers
A 46-year-old Depew woman on Wednesday admitted illegally selling prescription painkillers, including one time near a school.Debra Piatek, of Penora Street, admitted selling Suboxone pills to an...
View ArticlePop bottle 'bomb' found near Orchard Park school
The discovery by officials of Orchard Park’s Windom Elementary School of a unexploded “pop bottle bomb” and several other detonated items at the back edge of the school property today has sparked an...
View ArticleClarence High senior killed in ‘horrific’ motorcycle accident...
A graduating Clarence Senior High School student who was looking forward to joining the Marine Corps was killed in a “horrible,” high-speed motorcycle crash just before 9 a.m. Wednesday after he fled...
View ArticleThree men plead guilty to home-invasion charges
Three men accused of binding a homeowner and his wife with duct tape and brandishing a revolver during a Buffalo home invasion in December pleaded guilty to first-degree burglary and robbery charges,...
View ArticleSisters to split $3.28 million settlement in death of parents
LOCKPORT – Two Town of Tonawanda sisters, whose parents were killed in a 2007 crash on Niagara Falls Boulevard in Wheatfield, will share more than $3.28 million in a settlement of a lawsuit against a...
View ArticleLockport woman killed in head-on Amherst crash
A 27-year-old Lockport woman whose car reportedly drifted into an oncoming lane of traffic at 3:15 p.m. Wednesday on Millersport Highway near the 990 was pronounced dead at the scene of the...
View ArticleEight youths charged in beating of man, 66, in Buffalo park
Eight young people, all believed to be Bennett High School students, have been arrested in the beating of a 66-year-old man attacked last month when he tried to break up an argument between two girls...
View ArticleTicket-fixing charade in court is costly for ex-judge
Louis P. Violanti was a Lackawanna City Court judge earlier this year when he orchestrated a courtroom charade to dismiss a ticket on behalf of a friend.Violanti instructed a Lackawanna police officer...
View ArticlePolice ID woman whose body was found in boat at Lake Ontario dock
A heavily damaged boat drifted into a dock on Lake Ontario just east of Olcott Harbor Wednesday night, and when deputies looked inside, they found a dead woman.She was identified Thursday morning as...
View ArticleDrag race nets DWI charge in Amherst
A drag race on Transit Road in Amherst Wednesday night resulted in drunk driving charges against one of the drivers.Erie County Sheriff’s deputies also arrested another man for felony drunk driving in...
View ArticleLoaded gun found in man’s carry-on bag at Buffalo airport
A Rochester man was stopped this morning at Buffalo Niagara International Airport after screeners noticed a loaded gun in his carry-on bag, airport officials reported.The man, whose name was not...
View ArticleDeath of Lockport boater deemed accidental
OLCOTT – The woman found in her heavily damaged boat that washed up Wednesday night just east of Olcott Harbor died as a result of injuries suffered in a boating accident, according to the Niagara...
View ArticleConvenience store robbed at gun point in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – A 7-Eleven at 2620 Niagara St. was robbed at gun point by a masked man early Thursday.The clerk at the store, which has been robbed in the past, told police there is usually only a...
View ArticleTwo more arrested in Shoshone Park beating
Two more Bennett High School students have been arrested in connection with the May 16 violent assault on a 66-year-old man at Shoshone Park. The arrests bring the number of students charged to 10.In...
View ArticleNew NFTA police smart phone app is in use
The Transit Police of the Niagara Frontier Transportation Authority today began making use of a new smart phone application designed to let people instantly report suspicious activity at NFTA...
View ArticleOwner of Roxy’s sentenced today
Julia Greenwood, 42, the owner of the popular Roxy’s Bar on Main Street in Allentown, was placed on probation by Erie Count Kenneth F. Case today for five years and ordered to remain drug and alcohol...
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