High winds to dwindle, but not before causing problems
Winds gusting more than 40 mph brought down tree limbs and caused scattered power outages across Western New York Monday night. About 100 customers were without electricity in parts of Erie, Allegany...
View ArticleDoubts cast on circumstances of North Tonawanda slaying
NORTH TONAWANDA – Was Ralph D. Stone Jr. an abusive boyfriend who died at the hands of a girlfriend because he was attacking her?That’s doubtful, according to a former girlfriend and some of Stone’s...
View ArticleArea Catholics react with hope to Pope Benedict’s resignation
No one had illusions that Pope Benedict XVI was getting younger, but few Catholics expected the aging pontiff to announce his resignation Monday – just two days before the start of the Lenten holy...
View ArticleWNYers get millions by winning two games
Sandra Burdick had always told her daughter, Jessica Delario, that if she called in the middle of the night, it meant someone had died or she had just won the lottery.So when Delario picked up her...
View ArticleLewiston makes final pitch for disputed property
LEWISTON – In a last-ditch effort to avoid condemning a small sliver of private land for dedication as a public street, town officials will make one more offer to buy the property from its owners.Town...
View ArticleStrong winds down trees, leave 100 without power
Winds gusting more than 40 mph brought down tree limbs and caused scattered power outages across Western New York on Monday night. About 100 customers were without electricity in parts of Erie,...
View ArticleMan charged with pulling knife out at Lockport bar
LOCKPORT – A female bartender at Lock 34 bar told city police she feared for her safety Sunday when a man pulled out a knife inside the bar.John W. Walsh, 29, of Washburn Street, was removed from the...
View ArticleLewiston man charged in 2007 assault, robbery
NIAGARA FALLS – A Lewiston man wanted on assault and robbery charges from 2007 was arrested on a warrant this week. Robert A. Campbell, 36, of Saunders Settlement Road, was charged with third-degree...
View ArticleLockport woman accused of stealing mom’s pickup to buy drugs
TOWN OF LOCKPORT – A Lake Avenue woman was charged with drug possession and stealing her mother’s pickup truck, Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said.Jacqueline P. Barrett, 27, is accused of taking...
View ArticleMan who crashed car arraigned on assault charges
LOCKPORT – A man whose vehicle snapped off a utility pole and rolled over, injuring a female passenger, was arraigned Monday in Niagara County Court.Daniel W. Lounsbury, 53, of Portage Road, Niagara...
View ArticleHearing set in ‘86 Lockport murder case
LOCKPORT – Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas has scheduled a hearing March 6 on the latest attempt by William J. Barnes Jr. to overturn his murder convictions for the shooting deaths of his...
View ArticleMan gets three years for transporting undocumented workers
A Mexican national was sentenced to three years in prison following his conviction for unlawfully transporting undocumented workers within the United States, U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr....
View ArticleShoddy plumbing work sparks Middleport fire
MIDDLEPORT – A fire, which damaged a lower rear apartment in three-unit apartment building today, was caused by someone who had done plumbing work in the basement earlier in the day, according to...
View ArticleOn 4th anniversary of tragedy, Flight 3407 families cite...
WASHINGTON – The Families of Continental Flight 3407 spent the fourth anniversary of the loss of their loved ones lobbying the Federal Aviation Administration and members of Congress for tougher rules...
View ArticleMayor promises “a year to remember” in Lockport
LOCKPORT – Mayor Michael W. Tucker said in his State of the City address Tuesday that “2013 will be a year to remember” in Lockport because of many major construction and business projects.“There are...
View ArticleAlbert Capozzi Sr. dies
Six years ago, Albert Capozzi Sr. sat in his daughter’s Amherst hair salon and explained how he felt about his son Anthony’s being exonerated after two decades of wrongful imprisonment for rapes he...
View Article10-time drunken driver jailed at latest DWI arraignment
LOCKPORT – A North Tonawanda man, arraigned on his latest set of drunken driving charges Wednesday, was jailed in lieu of $50,000 bail set by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas after she learned...
View ArticleWoman involved in officer injury pleads to drug felony
LOCKPORT – A Lockport woman who allegedly passed tobacco to a Niagara County Jail inmate in 2011, leading to a fight that ended with a career-ending back injury for a corrections officer, pleaded...
View ArticleNiagara Falls gas station clerk robbed at gunpoint
NIAGARA FALLS – Police were searching Wednesday for two men, one of them armed with a semiautomatic pistol, who robbed a Valero Gas Mart in the 4700 block of Hyde Park Boulevard.A clerk said one of...
View ArticleTax preparer gets 30 months for fraud, but victims still owe IRS
Elizabeth Wopperer lost everything. She lost her business. She lost $40,000 in cash. And by the time it was all over, she found herself filing for bankruptcy.On top of all that, the IRS now wants the...
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