Falls car burglary spree continues downtown
NIAGARA FALLS – Car burglars made their return to the downtown area on New Year’s Eve, breaking into multiple vehicles in at least three different locations, city police said.In each instance, a front...
View ArticlePennsylvania felon stopped at Falls border with shotgun, stun guns
NIAGARA FALLS – A Pennsylvania woman was arrested, her 9-year-old son placed into foster care and three family pets seized by the SPCA of Niagara after several weapons, including a shotgun and two...
View ArticleBrandon takes reins for 'new era'
Russ Brandon is in charge. He now has the final say on all the Buffalo Bills' decisions.That's the bottom line from Tuesday's news conference announcing that Brandon has added the title of president to...
View ArticleBuffalonian with Newtown roots reaches out with fundraiser
Like others, Beth Iszard Swift was sickened by the carnage committed in Newtown, Conn.But unlike her fellow Buffalo residents, Swift knew that bucolic community firsthand: She grew up there, moving to...
View ArticleFive-hour driver’s course to be offered Jan. 10
The five-hour prelicensing course required before taking a road test for a state driver’s license will be offered from 4 to 9 p.m. Jan. 10 in Building 3, Room 3102, Erie Community College South Campus,...
View ArticleAmeriCorps will swear in 46 new members
The Buffalo AmeriCorps program based in the Belle Center on the Lower West Side will have 46 new members sworn in at 11 a.m. Thursday in the center.Volunteers for the service program have tutored...
View ArticleNewfane Bank of America branch robbed
NEWFANE – A Bank of America branch at 2700 Main St. was robbed at midmorning Wednesday, prompting Niagara County Sheriff’s officials to put nearby schools on lockdown as a precaution, authorities...
View ArticleLockport man pleads not guilty to attacking child
LOCKPORT – Bail was set at $1 million dollars today in Lockport City Court for a Monroe Street man accused of attempting to strangle a 7-year-old girl in his home on New Year’s Eve day.David L....
View ArticleCrash closes Shawnee Road
WHEATFIELD – No major injuries were reported in a two vehicle crash on Shawnee Road/Route 425 just before 3 p.m. today, but a diesel spill caused by the crash is stopping traffic as officials were...
View ArticleFalls man admits leaving scene of fatal crash
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man accepted a plea bargain today in connection with a June 18 collision that killed a pedestrian and injured her son.Francis A. Maikranz, 55, of Whitney Avenue, admitted to...
View ArticleSecond man pleads guilty in Falls gun case
LOCKPORT – Michael S. Loverdi admitted Friday that he had a loaded handgun with him April 26 when he and another man unwittingly interrupted a Niagara Falls police drug raid on a Third Street...
View ArticleShooting suspect arraigned on drug and gun charges
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, who is charged with shooting at a passing car in the city on June 27, was arraigned in Niagara County Court Friday on charges of having a sawed-off rifle and assorted...
View ArticleOne sentenced, two plead guilty in Niagara felony DWI cases
LOCKPORT – One man avoided jail time on a felony driving while intoxicated charge Friday, while two other men pleaded guilty to that charge.Christopher J. Ross, 32, of Wheatfield Street, North...
View ArticleAmherst man refuses plea in 1990s sex case
LOCKPORT – Paul S. Turley of Amherst rejected a plea offer Friday in Niagara County Court and was scheduled for trial Jan. 22 in connection with the alleged molestation of two girls between August 1996...
View ArticleLockport police seek 2 men in shooting
LOCKPORT – A confrontation inside a convenience store at a Lockport gas station, which led to the shooting of a Lockport man Thursday afternoon, has still not been fully explained.Detective Capt....
View ArticleAerospace museum moving to former airport terminal
Plans to relocate the Niagara Aerospace Museum to Niagara Falls International Airport have been cemented, State Sen. George D. Maziarz announced Friday.Museum officials said in November they were near...
View ArticleJourney’s End program to provide immigration aid
A $150,000 state grant has enabled Journey’s End Refugee Services to launch a new program providing legal aid to other nonprofit agencies in Upstate New York.Journey’s End hired lawyer Gary C. Liao to...
View ArticleFalls is set to receive $42,200 fire training grant
NIAGARA FALLS – The city will receive a new fire training grant of more than $40,000, Rep. Brian Higgins, D-Buffalo, announced Friday.The Fire Department has been awarded $42,400 in federal funding...
View ArticleBubble hockey fans descend on Museum of Science
Buffalo’s hunger for hockey was on display again Friday night.A week after the city sold out the First Niagara Center for a Rochester Americans game in what became one of the largest crowds in American...
View ArticleFoes blast Covanta tax break at Falls hearing
NIAGARA FALLS – Henry R. Krawczyk is fed up with his near neighbor, the Covanta Niagara energy-from-waste incinerator, so the word that it plans to expand, with help from a county property tax break,...
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