Drug dealer, expecting release, gets 18 more months in prison
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man described by a Niagara County Drug Task Force officer as “a heavy drug dealer” was sentenced to an additional 18 months in state prison Tuesday.Kurtis R. Washington, 22, of...
View ArticleNiagara County pot grower criticizes law as he is jailed
LOCKPORT – A man who grew marijuana outside his former home in Porter last summer said Tuesday that he disagrees with the laws against the practice.“I think the laws need to be changed. Yes, I do,”...
View ArticleReardon promoted to CEO of Niagara Cerebral Palsy
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Cerebral Palsy announced this week that John J.M. Reardon, its chief financial officer since 2001, has been promoted to executive director and chief executive officer,...
View ArticleDEC opens comment period on Covanta plan
NIAGARA FALLS – The state Department of Environmental Conservation announced Tuesday that a 45-day public comment period will begin today regarding Covanta Niagara’s brownfield cleanup plan for 15...
View ArticleLegislature OKs funding for emergency radio towers
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Legislature voted Tuesday to borrow $6.8 million to construct new emergency radio towers.It’s part of a $10 million package that also includes new portable radios for...
View ArticleBasil Volkswagen driving into Lockport
A new Volkswagen dealership is rolling into the region.Basil Volkswagen of Lockport plans to open this summer in the vacant former home of Basil Toyota on South Transit Road, said Michael Basil, the...
View Article3 to receive awards at program in King’s memory
NIAGARA FALLS – W. Lee Whitaker, a member of the Niagara Falls Human Rights Commission and the NFC Corp., the city’s lending arm, will be given a civil rights achievement award at this year’s...
View ArticleNiagara County plans renewed effort to share services
LOCKPORT – Increased sharing of public works equipment and manpower will be the initial focus of a new shared services effort launched at a news conference before Tuesday’s Niagara County Legislature...
View ArticleNewfane burglar sent to drug treatment facility
LOCKPORT – Drug-addicted Newfane burglar Sasha N. Botting was ordered into an inpatient drug treatment facility by State Supreme Court Justice Richard C. Kloch Sr. Tuesday, after she failed a drug...
View ArticleMan killed in Lewiston crash
TUSCARORA RESERVATION – A 35-year-old Lewiston man was killed just before 6 a.m. today when his 1997 Ford four-door sedan went off the road and hit two trees in a front yard at a home on Mount Hope...
View ArticleMLK events slated throughout the city
The Martin Luther King Jr. holiday on Monday will be marked by a variety of observances throughout Western New York over the next few days, including an annual celebration in Kleinhans Music Hall...
View ArticleFalls man gets 22-month sentence for lying in drug case
A Niagara Falls man whose false testimony caused dismissal of a drug case in federal court has been sentenced to 22 months in prison by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara, U.S. Attorney William J....
View ArticleMan avoids prison in copper caper
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda man, already on probation for a burglary in Amherst, was placed on five years’ probation Wednesday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas for the theft of copper from...
View ArticleFalls man admits to theft from Lockport B&B
LOCKPORT – A man who stole property from a Town of Lockport home where a bed-and-breakfast was to open last year pleaded guilty Wednesday before Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, who scheduled...
View ArticleMan sentenced to time served in jail fight
LOCKPORT – Jason W. Lewis, who assaulted a fellow Niagara County Jail inmate in 2011, was sentenced to time served Wednesday in Niagara County Court.Defense Attorney E. Earl Key said Lewis, 39, of...
View ArticleWest Seneca man indicted on predatory sex charges
LOCKPORT – A West Seneca man faces a potential sentence of life in prison if convicted as charged in a sex crime indictment unsealed Wednesday in Niagara County Court.Justin C. Wheeler, 20, of...
View ArticleState funding to localities lags behind inflation rate
ALBANY – New York State’s payments to localities – much of it for mandated health, welfare and other services – has grown by less than half the inflation rate during the last decade, the state’s chief...
View ArticleA number of burglaries and robberies are being investigated in Niagara County
Police are investigating a number of unrelated burglaries and robberies in Niagara County – most of them in Niagara Falls, including an armed robbery Wednesday at a 7-Eleven.A 7-Eleven in the 1500...
View ArticleThird man pleads guilty in shooting of Falls man
LOCKPORT – Jacob J. Taggart pleaded guilty Wednesday in connection with the April 25 shooting of an 18-year-old man on a Niagara Falls street corner.It was the third guilty plea in the shooting of...
View ArticleLockport drops plans for police to perform evictions
LOCKPORT – The city has given up on plans to have the Police Department begin carrying out evictions, but the city attorney insisted Wednesday that the decision was financial, not legal.“It wasn’t the...
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