Kloch forces end to North Tonawanda storekeeper’s suit against city
LOCKPORT – State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. Thursday forced convenience store owner Muwafek S. “Moe” Rizek to sign a document which apparently voids his civil rights lawsuit against...
View ArticleMedical waste disposal firm pays five local public entities
One of the nation’s largest medical waste disposal firms has settled with five local public entities among the hundreds across the state that it has been accused of overcharging for its...
View ArticleFalls School Board weighs registration system, truancy
NIAGARA FALLS – Getting new students registered for school and getting existing students to show up for their classes were on the minds of city School Board members at their Thursday night review...
View ArticleLockport RV dealership seeks tax break for expansion
LOCKPORT – Mantelli Trailer Sales plans to mark its 50th year in business this year with a $1.5 million expansion.Mark and Kim Watson, owners of the recreational vehicle dealership, Thursday presented...
View ArticleSecond man pleads guilty in Falls shooting
LOCKPORT – Marlyn M. Rubin has become the second man to plead guilty in connection with the near-fatal shooting of a Niagara Falls teenager, but the story he told Thursday in Niagara County Court...
View ArticleFalls’ credit rating drops as casino dispute drags on
Thanks to the casino dispute between the state and Seneca Nation of Indians, Niagara Falls has had budget problems. Now it could have borrowing problems, too.Moody’s credit agency has dropped the...
View ArticleReferee meets ‘angel’ to whom he owes his life
More than most people, James N. Martek will be thankful to turn 55 at the end of this month. He almost didn’t make it.The basketball referee from Lancaster collapsed on the court in the first quarter...
View ArticleReferee meets ‘angel’ to whom he owes his life
More than most people, James N. Martek will be thankful to turn 55 at the end of this month. He almost didn’t make it.The basketball referee from Lancaster collapsed on the court in the first quarter...
View ArticlePolice accuse man of stealing assault rifle from Eggertsville apartment
A Lockport man already behind bars was charged with burglary for allegedly stealing a Bushmaster AR-15 assault rifle from an Eggertsville apartment last week, Amherst Police Detective Lt. Rick Walter...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in cocaine possession case
LOCKPORT – Claude J. Wilson, 35, of LaSalle Avenue, Niagara Falls, pleaded guilty in Niagara County Court Friday to having had two baggies of cocaine when Falls police checked him out in a parked car...
View ArticleAkron man pleads guilty in Pendleton DWI case
LOCKPORT – Anthony J. Brough, 49, of Main Street, Akron, pleaded guilty Friday to felony driving while intoxicated before State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr.Brough was pulled over by a...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty to two felonies in domestic assault
LOCKPORT – Terrill D. Pettway, 23, of Ely Avenue, Niagara Falls, pleaded guilty Friday to two felonies stemming from a July 4 incident with his ex-girlfriend and her 6-year-old daughter.Pettway...
View ArticleGasport man jailed for not obtaining sex counseling
LOCKPORT – A man who violated probation in a sexual misconduct case by not obtaining proper sex offender treatment was sentenced to a year in Niagara County Jail Friday by County Judge Sara Sheldon...
View ArticleTwo charged after meth bust in Newfane
Two Niagara County men face felony drug charges after a raid Friday that uncovered methamphetamine and a .22-caliber handgun in the town of Newfane, Niagara County sheriff’s officials reported. Sean...
View ArticleOwner of former mall plans to sell remnants
LOCKPORT – General Growth Properties, the Chicago-based owner of the former Lockport Mall, plans to sell what’s left of its commercial property on the South Transit Road site.The Town of Lockport...
View ArticleECMC announces name for new long-term care facility
Erie County Medical Center has announced that its new $103 million, 390-bed nursing home will be named the Terrace View Long-term Care Facility on the ECMC Health Campus on Grider Street.The facility...
View ArticleDEC plans 2 public meetings on renewal of CWM permit
LEWISTON – The state Department of Environmental Conservation will host two public meetings Monday on its draft proposal to allow CWM Chemical Services to renew its operating permit on its current...
View ArticleLegislature announces new committee chairman
LOCKPORT – New chairmen for the Niagara County Legislature’s five standing committees were announced this week.Lockport Legislators W. Keith McNall and Anthony J. Nemi will be trading places, with...
View Article716 patients at VA may have been exposed to HIV
WASHINGTON – More than 700 patients at the Buffalo VA Medical Center may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C because of the inadvertent reuse of insulin pens that were intended to be...
View ArticleDyster says Cuomo’s stand on casinos is good news for Niagara
NIAGARA FALLS – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo’s suggestion Thursday that there would be no new casinos in Western New York was seen by Mayor Paul A. Dyster as a sign of a more cordial relationship between the...
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