Police and firefighters pull car from Hyde Park Lake
NIAGARA FALLS – City police are still trying to determine how an unoccupied car ended up in Hyde Park Lake this morning and have taken the vehicle back to Police Headquarters for further...
View ArticleFrequent customer charged with robbing Lockport credit union
A woman wanted in the robbery of Cornerstone Credit Union in the Town of Lockport last week was arrested at 11 a.m. Monday in Buffalo by the U.S. Marshals’ Violent Felony Task Force, which included...
View ArticleTeen charged with stealing a car and driving drunk
LOCKPORT – A teen joy riding in a stolen vehicle will face felony drunken driving charges under Leandra’s Law after the 16-year-old City of Tonawanda driver was found to be driving drunk with a...
View ArticleWoman charged for texting and drunken driving in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A Buffalo woman stopped for weaving as she was driving on South Transit Road early Sunday told Niagara County sheriff’s deputies that her friends were texting her directions, but deputies...
View ArticleDriver facing multiple charges following rollover crash in Lockport
LOCKPORT – A Church Street man was arrested on a slew of charges – including driving while intoxicated, reckless driving and leaving the scene of an accident – after he and a passenger walked away...
View ArticleLockport robbery suspect arrested in Buffalo
Dale L. Swain, 55, the suspect in a daytime stickup at the Cornerstone Credit Union in the Town of Lockport, was captured this morning in Buffalo by the U.S. Marshall’s Violent Felony Task Force, and...
View ArticleWNY runners describe scene after blasts in Boston
Three or four minutes after Pam Tymchak of East Amherst completed the Boston Marathon, as she was swept along in a sea of fellow runners away from the finish line and toward the buses that held her...
View ArticleSenecas not intimidated by state’s talk of a Falls casino
ALBANY – If Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is trying to pressure the Seneca Nation to resolve a bitter money dispute with the state by threatening to let a non-Indian casino locate in downtown Niagara Falls, it...
View ArticleSuspicious backpack prompts closing of Carnegie Building in Falls
NIAGARA FALLS – Niagara Falls Police and the state police bomb squad unit were called to investigate a suspicious package, later determined to be a backpack, this morning on the front steps of the...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in slaying of uncle
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who gunned down his uncle after a family spat accepted a plea offer Tuesday in Niagara County Court.Darius M. Belton, 18, admitted to first-degree manslaughter and is to...
View ArticleStray bullet found in front of a Starpoint elementary school
PENDLETON – Starpoint schools were searched by the Niagara County sheriff department and the school was put in “lockout” mode, closing all doors to the public, after a bullet was found in front of the...
View ArticleFalls man pleads guilty in mugging
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man admitted Tuesday in Niagara County Court that he took part in the mugging of a man July 15 near a Coastal gas station on 19th Street in Niagara Falls.Raco N. Black, 45,...
View ArticleLockport man imprisoned for equipment theft
LOCKPORT – Michael D. Maacks, 26, of Dysinger Road, Lockport, was sentenced Tuesday to two to four years in state prison for his role in the theft of $10,000 worth of equipment from a Lockport...
View ArticleTuscarora man denies pot, weapons charges
LOCKPORT – A Tuscarora Indian Reservation resident who has been to state prison twice before pleaded not guilty Wednesday in Niagara County Court to a new indictment charging him with illegal...
View ArticleGuilty plea in armed holdup at Falls 7-Eleven
LOCKPORT – A Town of Niagara man faces up to seven years in prison after pleading guilty Tuesday to the June 30 robbery of a 7-Eleven store on Hyde Park Boulevard in Niagara Falls.James A. Connell,...
View ArticleFather of three pleads guilty to robbery, burglary
LOCKPORT – A married father of three daughters admitted Tuesday in Niagara County Court that he burglarized his in-laws’ home and robbed a man in a car, climaxing five years of addiction to...
View ArticleTwo injured in a street fight
NIAGARA FALLS – A 62-year-old woman told Niagara Falls police that she was picked up by the neck and thrown against a telephone pole, injuring her neck and breaking her left hand, when she went to the...
View ArticleGreenway panel OKs $11 million for Falls athletic fields
WHEATFIELD – The committee that holds the purse strings for Niagara River Greenway funding in Niagara County unanimously approved $11 million Tuesday for new athletic fields at Niagara Falls High...
View ArticleWNY gun-rights advocates hold fire on Senate compromise
WASHINGTON – A bipartisan compromise on background checks for gun purchases faces a rough road in the Senate thanks to stiff opposition from the National Rifle Association, but the proposal is...
View ArticleDeputy comptroller explains pension woes to Niagara Legislature
LOCKPORT – The No. 2 official in the State Comptroller’s Office told the Niagara County Legislature on Tuesday that the echoes of the 2008 stock market plunge that ushered in the Great Recession are...
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