Lockport man pleads guilty to apartment burglary
LOCKPORT – Shawn P. Filipovich, 24, of Robinson Road, Lockport, admitted Thursday in Niagara County Court that he burglarized a woman’s apartment Dec. 12 on Dysinger Road in Lockport.Filipovich...
View ArticleConfession aired in killing of 5-year-old girl in Falls
LOCKPORT – John R. Freeman Jr. grasped the situation he was in last summer after his accomplice told Niagara Falls police that Freeman had killed a 5-year-old Cheektowaga girl.“I’m going down, and it...
View ArticleReport of missing kayakers turns out to be unfounded
A report that four kayakers were missing Thursday in the lower Niagara River near Whirlpool State Park in Niagara Falls turned out to be unfounded, police said. However, investigators were checking on...
View ArticleFree workshop to profile business incentive programs
WILSON – Economic development agencies will host a free workshop Wednesday in Town Hall, 375 Lake St., to discuss business incentive programs available on the county, state and federal levels.The...
View ArticleState agency seeks developer for abandoned Falls mall
NIAGARA FALLS – Companies interested in redeveloping the 200,000 square feet of space left in the old Rainbow Centre Mall have until May 20 to make their pitches.Officials of the USA Niagara...
View ArticleFree Wilson workshop set on business incentive programs
WILSON – Economic development agencies will host a free workshop Wednesday in Town Hall, 375 Lake St., to discuss business incentive programs available on the county, state and federal levels.The...
View ArticleLate spring is cold comfort for farmers
Gardeners can relax. They have plenty of time to get out in the yard.And growers, feel free to rejoice, or at least to exhale.Unlike 2012, when March felt more like June, Buffalo’s winter settled in...
View ArticleRoswell Park faces research cut
Researchers trying to find a cure for cancer in Buffalo labs and doctors fighting cancer in their patients’ bodies are bracing for the effects of across-the-board federal cuts resulting from...
View ArticleJudge halts work on Maid of the Mist facility
A State Supreme Court judge today put a temporary halt to construction on the Maid of the Mist’s new boat storage facility in the Niagara Gorge.Judge Ralph A. Boniello III signed a temporary...
View ArticleGun-show operators agree to new rules
Twenty-six gun show operators in New York State have agreed to put in place new rules designed to prevent the sale of guns to customers who can't pass criminal background checks, State Attorney...
View ArticleU.S. looks to ’02 plan as path to peace
JERUSALEM – The Obama administration is exploring whether a long-abandoned initiative proposed by Saudi Arabia 11 years ago could become the basis for a regional peace agreement between Israel and its...
View ArticleMan who violated probation facing “shock incarceration” program
LOCKPORT – A man who violated the terms of his probation sentence for choking the mother of one of his children was sent to prison Friday by Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas.Jeffrey J. Farrell...
View Article7 Newfane High athletes face shoplifting charges
Several members of the Newfane High School varsity baseball team could be facing discipline in court and at school after being arrested Tuesday on misdemeanor shoplifting charges in South...
View ArticleNewfane home raided as a meth lab by state police and niagara county sheriff
A Hazardous Materials Response Cleanup team was dispatched to clear volatile meth lab chemicals from a Franklin Street home in Newfane after it was raided by Niagara County Sheriff’s Drug Task Force...
View ArticleBeilein’s road to Final four started at ECC
ATLANTA – Thirty-five years ago Ralph Galanti played a hunch that would impact college basketball for decades to come. He entered the president’s office at Erie Community College and declared he had...
View ArticleBidding goes awry on Lockport parking ramp demolition
LOCKPORT – Friday’s opening of bids for the demolition of the closed downtown Lockport parking ramp featured an error that could cost the city $190,000, produce a lawsuit, or both.Scott Lawn Yard of...
View ArticleFalls man denies selling crack in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man pleaded not guilty Friday in Niagara County Court to charges that he sold crack cocaine twice to a police informant in the City of Lockport.Deandre M. Mathews, 22, of...
View ArticleRetrial set for Falls burglary suspect
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man accused of a burglary, who aborted his trial last month by checking into a hospital’s mental health unit, has been found mentally competent to go through a second trial,...
View ArticleSex offender avoids jail for moving without notice
LOCKPORT – Five years’ probation was the sentence from Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas Friday for a Level 1 sex offender who moved from Niagara Falls to Buffalo without reporting the change...
View ArticleDouble felon assigned to drug-treatment program
LOCKPORT – Malique L. Rogers of Niagara Falls pleaded guilty to two felonies Friday and was assigned to the judicial diversion program of court-supervised drug treatment by Niagara County Judge Sara...
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