Longtime newspaper carrier killed in a car crash
TOWN OF NIAGARA – Judith B. Sparks, a longtime carrier for the Niagara Gazette died following an automobile crash on Porter Road late Tuesday. The cause of crash appears to be health related.Sparks,...
View ArticleAttempt to thaw water lines turns destructive in Lockport
LOCKPORT – Frigid temperatures contributed to a fire that destroyed an old, stone-framed house on North Transit Street.The homeowner told officials the blaze started about 7:45 p.m. Tuesday, after he...
View ArticleDufour named to vacancy on Lockport Town Board
LOCKPORT – Patricia Dufour was appointed to the Lockport Town Board today, taking the seat left vacant by the Nov. 17 death of Paul H. Pettit.Dufour’s appointment to the Town Board is valid through...
View ArticleMan absconds during sex crime trial
LOCKPORT – Paul S. Turley, on trial in Niagara County Court on charges of molesting two small girls repeatedly during the late 1990s, went missing during Wednesday’s lunch break.Turley, 47, who gave...
View ArticleWork progresses on Trek site; funding doesn’t
LOCKPORT – Corporation Counsel John J. Ottaviano said Wednesday that asbestos removal and interior demolition at Harrison Place is almost complete. The work is needed for Trek Inc. to move its...
View ArticleNT man who put out girlfriend’s eye imprisoned
LOCKPORT – Donnell J. Kent, already serving state prison time for three Niagara Falls burglaries, picked up additional prison time Wednesday for blinding his girlfriend in the right eye by shooting...
View ArticleCheektowaga woman jailed for selling cocaine
LOCKPORT – A woman who sold cocaine Oct. 3 in North Tonawanda was sentenced to a year in Niagara County Jail Wednesday by County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.Sharee R. Bailey, 20, of Vern Lane,...
View Article2 robberies in Niagara Falls appear to be unrelated, police say
NIAGARA FALLS – Two robberies, one at gunpoint in broad daylight, were reported to city police Tuesday. The heists appear unrelated.A 25-year old man, a driver for H.W. Bryk and Sons Heating and Air...
View ArticleLockport eyes new ticket process for property violations
LOCKPORT – The Common Council is considering a speeded-up process for fining property owners for violating city ordinances on sidewalk snow shoveling, lawn mowing, garbage placement and unlicensed...
View ArticleThree promoted in Lockport Fire Department
LOCKPORT – Matthew O. Streckewald has been promoted from captain to assistant chief of the Lockport Fire Department, Alderman and Fire Board member Patrick W. Schrader said Wednesday.Streckewald, a...
View ArticleSchumer seeks testing for veterans’ families
WASHINGTON – The Buffalo VA Medical Center should offer health testing not only to the veterans who may have been exposed to HIV, hepatitis B or hepatitis C, but also to their family members and...
View ArticleNiagara Falls shooting victim identified by police
NIAGARA FALLS – A Niagara Falls man shot in the chest while he was at a home on Elmwood Avenue Wednesday morning has been identified by police.Cornelius Brinson, 28, of 19th Street is now in stable...
View ArticleLockport man found with painkillers in traffic stop
LOCKPORT – A Lockport man pulled over in a traffic stop by city police on Wednesday also faces felony drug charges after police caught him trying to stash pill bottles under a car seat.Daniel L....
View ArticleMan charged in Lockport bar brawl
LOCKPORT – Though a reward had been offered, it was good old-fashioned police work that brought in a man wanted in a city bar fight.Cory W. Arnold, 33, of Orchard Street, was charged this week with...
View ArticleCopper pipes stolen from vacant Niagara Falls house
NIAGARA FALLS – The owner of a house on C Street that has been vacant for more than two months reported a theft of more than $2,000 worth copper pipe and wiring.The owner told police Wednesday that he...
View ArticleFalls man charged with stealing auto parts
NIAGARA FALLS – A Niagara Falls man was charged Wednesday in the theft of an estimated $3,000 in metal parts from a Highland Avenue automotive garage.Romond M. Lamar, 29, of Cleveland Avenue, was...
View ArticleMiddleport man on parole faces indecency charge
LOCKPORT – A routine search by a state parole officer led to charges of indecency and endangering being filed against a Middleport man.David L. Vercruysse, 38, of Main Street, was charged Wednesday...
View ArticleTrial postponed in 5-year-old’s death
LOCKPORT – The time needed for a defense expert to conduct a psychiatric examination of murder defendant John R. Freeman Jr. will force a postponement of the Feb. 25 trial stemming from the death of...
View ArticleBoot camp recommended for Falls man with illegal gun
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man was recommended Thursday for the state prison system’s boot camp-like “shock incarceration” program as a penalty for possession of an illegal handgun and some...
View ArticleSex offender to be imprisoned after committing new crime
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda sex offender admitted in Niagara County Court Thursday that he violated his probation last month by having sexual contact with a 17-year-old boy.At sentencing March 21,...
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