Head of cocaine ring in Wheatfield gets 8-year prison term
The head of a large-scale cocaine ring that operated out of bars in northern Erie County and Niagara County was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Judge Richard J. Arcara to eight years in...
View ArticleContract agreement reached at Niagara Falls Medical Center
A three-year contract agreement has been reached between the Niagara Falls Medical Center and the 650-person 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East union at the hospital. Union members will have a...
View ArticleTraffic stop leads to drug charge
LEWISTON – A Niagara Falls woman faces a number of charges, including possession of marijuana, after she was stopped for failure to display an inspection sticker on the windshield of her vehicle just...
View ArticleApartment found burglarized in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A Fairview Drive resident told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday that someone entered her apartment and took electronics and a number of personal items while she was away.The woman...
View ArticleMan pleads guilty in electronics store break-in
LOCKPORT – Jamarius D. Scott, 21, of Linwood Avenue, Niagara Falls, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Niagara County Court to taking part in the Feb. 17 burglary of NYC Jewelry and Electronics Outlet, 1605...
View ArticleRape suspect freed; prosecution admits trial unlikely
LOCKPORT – A man accused of raping a woman at knifepoint was freed from Niagara County Jail Wednesday on the orders of County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, as the case against him seemed to be coming...
View ArticleFalls man charged with crack cocaine sales
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man, arrested Tuesday morning when police battered down the door of his 37th Street apartment as he was getting dressed, was arraigned in Niagara County Court Wednesday on...
View ArticleHomeless man pleads guilty in Falls crime spree
LOCKPORT – A homeless Niagara Falls man pleaded guilty Wednesday to stealing a van, a purse and the wallet of a woman who was trying to find him shelter, all in a three-day period.John R. Malicoat,...
View ArticleRape trial postponed as attorneys discover conflict
LOCKPORT – The trial of a Niagara Falls man accused of raping a 15-year-old girl last year, which was to begin Monday, was postponed indefinitely Wednesday as public defenders had to withdraw from the...
View ArticleDNA ties parole violator to 2008-09 burglaries
LOCKPORT – A man who was jailed Monday for violating parole in a 2010 burglary case was accused Wednesday in Niagara County Court of committing two prior burglaries to which he was connected by DNA...
View ArticleStrange find prompts further testing
WILSON – A Wood Street man called Niagara County sheriff’s deputies after he found a rusty 55 gallon drum with a tuft of hair sticking out of it. The hair appears to be horse hair, according to the...
View ArticleFire crews respond to Lockport thrift store
LOCKPORT – Police and firefighters were called after smoke began filling the Salvation Army Thrift Store on South Transit Road at 2:30 p.m. todayState troopers and volunteers from the South Lockport...
View ArticleCouple’s quarrel resolved but prior criminal case still pending
Fears of a possible abduction after a couple quarrelled in Buffalo turned out to be unfounded when police found the couple and a 3-year-old child safe early Wednesday in a Niagara Falls motel, but the...
View ArticleThruway Authority cuts more than 200 jobs
ALBANY – More than 200 state Thruway workers lost their jobs today after agency and union officials were unable to agree on money-saving concessions.“Negotiations continued through the day and we have...
View ArticleWife of fugitive sex offender arraigned in Niagara County Court
LOCKPORT – Diane G. Turley surrendered to Lockport police and was arraigned Tuesday on felony charges of hindering prosecution.She is accused of helping her husband, Paul S. Turley, of Dunkirk, skip...
View ArticleBaldwinsville firm hired to handle Lockport’s ambulance billing
LOCKPORT – The Common Council voted unanimously Wednesday to hire MultiMed Inc. of Baldwinsville as the city’s ambulance billing firm, for a fee of $35,000 for the rest of this year.Ambulance bills...
View ArticleDistribution of Yahoo charitable donations questioned
LOCKPORT – Yahoo must donate $3.5 million to the Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo as a condition of receiving tax breaks and other incentives for its expanded Lockport data center – an...
View ArticleMichael’s Italian Restaurant serves exceptional food at reasonable...
I visited Michael’s Italian Restaurant just once, years ago, and all I remembered about the place was that it was not too large and that almost all of the seating was in booths. Oh, and I did remember...
View ArticleAmish boy coming home after 15 months in Boston hospital
Baby Amos is coming home again.Amos Hertzler, an Amish child born with serious medical problems in Cattaraugus County 2½ years ago, has been receiving specialized treatment for the past 15 months in a...
View ArticleFalls hospital, union reach pact
A three-year contract agreement has been reached between the Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center and the 650-person 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers East union at the hospital. Union members will...
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