Soccer shelters would honor victim of Flight 3407
SANBORN – The Niagara Wheatfield School Board Wednesday night supported a fundraising effort to memorialize Steven L. Johnson, the father of three female soccer players who was killed nearly four...
View ArticleWegmans ranked among best places to work for 16th straight year
In what has become an annual tradition – the 16th annual, to be exact – Wegmans Food Markets has been named to the Fortune magazine list of the “100 Best Companies to Work For.”Wegmans is No. 5 on the...
View ArticleInmates blame man’s death on lack of care at jail
Tommie Lee Jones Jr. suffered from heart disease, high blood pressure, emphysema, gout and claustrophobia.But as an inmate at the Niagara County Jail, he was denied adequate medical treatment and died...
View ArticleHiggins calls on Power Authority to aid Falls waterfront development
Money from the Niagara Power Project helped break decades of inertia on Buffalo’s waterfront.Rep. Brian Higgins thinks it can do the same for Niagara Falls.The Buffalo Democrat on Thursday called on...
View ArticleWoman charged with driving while impaired by drugs in Sanborn
SANBORN – A woman driving recklessly on Saunders Settlement Road, almost striking a school bus and a guard rail, was stopped by Niagara County sheriff’s deputies just after 10 a.m. Tuesday and charged...
View ArticleCanadian man arrested after paddling across river with a shovel
A Canadian man was arrested by U.S. Border Patrol in Youngstown this morning, after he illegally entered the country by canoe.The man – whose name was not released – is accused of stealing a canoe...
View ArticleVisions emerge of upgrades to Ralph Wilson Stadium
Gone will be the concrete barriers and chain-link fence that greet fans as they enter Ralph Wilson Stadium from Abbott Road. Vending carts that clog concourses during halftime will disappear. Dead...
View ArticleSex abuse case against Niagara County correction officer will continue
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A town judge on Thursday denied a request to suppress statements made as part of a probe into claims of sexual abuse involving female inmates leveled last year against a Niagara...
View ArticleLackawanna man admits to selling drugs in Niagara County
LOCKPORT – Patrick J. Murtha, who served four years in federal prison in the wake of a 1999 cocaine arrest, faces a maximum of eight years in state prison after pleading guilty Thursday to illegally...
View ArticleHearing held in Falls slain baby case
LOCKPORT – Three Niagara Falls police officers testified in Niagara County Court Thursday in a hearing on the admissibility of Tyler S. Best’s confession to police that he helped stash the body of a...
View ArticleMan indicted on charges of torching three autos
LOCKPORT – A Lewiston man was arraigned in Niagara County Court Thursday on charges of setting three parked vehicles afire in North Tonawanda July 22.David E. Spencer, 26, of Model City Road, pleaded...
View ArticleFalls man surrenders, takes plea deal in gun case
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, whose attorney thought he had left for Atlanta, turned himself in Wednesday, and Thursday he pleaded guilty before Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas to a reduced...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda man off to prison for pharmacy burglaries
A North Tonawanda man was sentenced Thursday to nearly six years in prison following his conviction for burglarizing a pharmacy and selling stolen prescription drugs.Prosecutors said Timothy J....
View ArticleLockport mayor to announce impact program for Washburn Street area
LOCKPORT – Mayor Michael W. Tucker will host police leaders and elected officials at a news conference at 1 p.m. Friday in City Hall to announce details of an impact program to clean up the Washburn...
View ArticleLockport police gave 150 improper parking tickets
LOCKPORT – Because of Common Council inaction, Lockport police handed out more than 150 parking tickets since Jan. 1 showing fines the Council hadn’t yet approved.City Clerk Richelle J. Pasceri said...
View ArticleNews conference will address cleanup of Washburn St. area
LOCKPORT – Mayor Michael W. Tucker will host police leaders and elected officials at a news conference at 1 p.m. today in City Hall to announce details of an impact program to clean up the Washburn...
View ArticleDoctor sees shift to single- payer care
Single-payer health care remains the only way to meet public health needs, and demand for it will reignite as changes brought by the Affordable Care Act fail to make health care cheaper and continue...
View ArticleTown of Niagara board weighs altering commercial zones
TOWN OF NIAGARA – The Town Board wants to look at allowing office use and light storage facilities in commercial zones.Town Attorney Michael Risman told the board members at a work session Thursday...
View ArticleMedical Center gala Saturday is a sellout
NIAGARA FALLS – A sellout crowd of more than 900, at $225 a ticket, is lined up for the Premier, Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center’s annual black-tie entertainment gala, set for Saturday night in...
View Article‘Gun Appreciation Day’ rally planned for Niagara Square
Hundreds are expected to turn out at noon Saturday in Niagara Square for a “Gun Appreciation Day” rally organized locally by New York Tea Party leader Rus Thompson.“What started out as a small thing...
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