Where have all the dollars from casino revenue gone?
NIAGARA FALLS – When slot machine revenues from the Seneca Niagara Casino started coming to Niagara Falls a decade ago, they enabled the city to improve its crumbling infrastructure, begin development...
View ArticleCitizen group hopes for new Congress to sort out ordnance site cleanup
LEWISTON – The new Congress that takes office in January may hold the key to what, if anything, will be done during the next couple of years with the decades-old chemical and radioactive contamination...
View ArticleNiagara lawmakers table effort to back private casino in Falls
LOCKPORT – The Niagara County Legislature tabled a resolution Tuesday that would have put the county on record as supporting a private-sector casino in downtown Niagara Falls.The resolution was...
View ArticleGraduation marks return of DARE to N. Tonawanda
The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program has returned to the North Tonawanda School District, and the first class of fifth-graders will graduate at 1 p.m....
View ArticleEast Aurora teacher arrested with crack had 3 misdemeanor convictions
East Aurora school officials expressed shock Wednesday at the arrest of a high school teacher on drug charges and said they had been unaware of at least one of his previous brushes with the...
View ArticleViolent past ends in suicide of man in Lockport standoff
A man who shot his wife in the face Wednesday – before holing up in his Campbell Boulevard home in the Town of Lockport with their 3-year-old daughter, then killing himself – had a violent history of...
View ArticleYoungstown doctor denies drug allegations
A Niagara County emergency room doctor who was arrested on a federal misdemeanor cocaine charge denies the allegations and denies using drugs, his attorney said on Wednesday.Dr. Daniel Gillick, 62, of...
View ArticleNorth Tonawanda man avoids jail in felony DWI case
LOCKPORT – A man who, according to his attorney, went out and got drunk after being told he might have pancreatic cancer, was placed on five years’ probation Wednesday and ordered to serve 30 days in...
View ArticleDriver in fatal Niagara County crash mulls plea offer
LOCKPORT – The driver whose speeding car smashed into a tree on the Tuscarora Indian Reservation on Aug. 19, inflicting fatal injuries on a passenger, was given a plea offer Wednesday and was told to...
View ArticleDrug dealer, missing six years, is sent to jail
LOCKPORT – Johnny W. Collins, a Niagara Falls cocaine dealer who absconded in 2006 while on interim probation instead of showing up for final sentencing, was ordered to Niagara County Jail for a year...
View ArticleFalls robbery suspect will take plea deal
LOCKPORT – Paul J. Schubert, the suspect in a series of armed robberies this fall in the Niagara Falls area, will enter a guilty plea next week, it was announced Wednesday in Niagara County...
View ArticleMan to serve one year in Falls knifing
LOCKPORT – Lawrence G. Congi, who washed out of court-supervised mental health treatment because of his cocaine addiction, was sentenced to a year in jail Wednesday for knifing a man a year ago in a...
View ArticleFalls burglar draws a year behind bars
LOCKPORT – Asad R. Hixon, 21, of Dudley Avenue, Niagara Falls, was sentenced Wednesday to a year in Niagara County Jail for his role in a burglary two years ago.Hixon had pleaded guilty before County...
View ArticleTown of Lockport residents blast Lafarge quarry expansion pitch
LOCKPORT – The Town Board delayed action Wednesday on a proposal to permit expansion of Lafarge North America’s current stone quarry along Hinman Road, in the face of uniform opposition from a large...
View ArticleClerk charged with stealing lottery tickets
WHEATFIELD – A North Tonawanda man employed as a convenience store clerk was charged after a store manager said she saw him on store security taking lottery tickets from a display case.Zachary A....
View ArticleLockport seeking new budget consultant
LOCKPORT – Richard P. Mullaney’s 30-year tenure as city budget director may be coming to an end.The Common Council voted Wednesday to issue a request for proposals from those interested in serving as...
View ArticleCouncil agrees to spend $140,00 for compost agitator
LOCKPORT – The Common Council agreed Wednesday to buy a $140,000 replacement compost agitator from Siemens Industry for the city composting plant. Alderman Patrick W. Schrader, D-4th Ward, said...
View ArticleWilson holiday home tour features Pan Am 1901 house
WILSON – A home built for the Pan Am Exposition in 1901 will be one of five residences featured when the Wilson Free Library hosts its third annual Christmas Tour of Homes at noon Saturday.The tour...
View ArticleSabo questions school field-trip policy
SANBORN – The president of the Niagara Wheatfield School Board would like to refine the district policy on field trips.President Steve Sabo on Wednesday night said although there have been no specific...
View ArticleFalls officer faces assault charge in Darien concert incident
A charge against a veteran Niagara Falls police officer accused of attacking a woman at a Darien Lake concert last summer has been upgraded from harassment to assault.Kelly Alcorn, 47, of Grand Island,...
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