Rock-a-Thon Friday to benefit Memorial Medical Center
NIAGARA FALLS – Rocking chairs are at the ready for Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center’s 12th annual fundraiser Rock-a-Thon, set to take place from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Friday in the hospital’s...
View ArticleFeet or Famine Walk aids Community Missions
NIAGARA FALLS – Community Missions of the Niagara Frontier is holding its 11th annual Feet or Famine Walk on Saturday in Whirlpool State Park.The 5-kilometer walk starts at 11:15 a.m., rain or shine....
View ArticleRotary scholarships available in Lockport, Starpoint, Newfane
LOCKPORT – The application deadline is April 29 for the $2,000-a-year college scholarships offered by the Rotary Club of Lockport to high school seniors living in the Lockport, Starpoint or Newfane...
View ArticleChairmen announced for Niagara Cup Classic
NIAGARA FALLS – The Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center Foundation has announced the co-chairmen of its 22nd annual Niagara Cup Classic, a golf tournament benefitting the hospital.Dr. Alan Meholick,...
View ArticlePortable pitcher’s mound stolen from Falls park
NIAGARA FALLS – Representatives of the Cayuga Youth Athletic League are wondering how someone stole a fiberglass portable pitcher’s mound – weighing “several hundred pounds” – from a baseball diamond...
View ArticleBB or pellet gun damages doors at funeral home
NIAGARA FALLS – A vandal with a BB or pellet gun caused an estimated $1,000 damage Friday morning to Colucci Funeral Chapel on 19th Street, police said.Two front glass doors to the establishment were...
View ArticleMan charged after hit-run crash in tavern parking lot
NIAGARA FALLS – A hit-and-run crash in a tavern parking lot led to the drunken driving arrest of a Ransomville man Friday evening, police said.Patrons at the Evening Star tavern on Niagara Falls...
View ArticleWarrant arrest leads to drug charge
NEWFANE – A Ridge Road man, arrested at his home on an unspecified warrant, faced additional charges when Niagara County sheriff’s deputies said they found him carrying prescription drugs that were...
View ArticleSeveral sites in Niagara County will collect prescription drugs
Unused, unwanted prescription drugs will be collected and safely disposed – no questions asked – at the upcoming National Take-Back Day, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at sites throughout Western New...
View ArticleLockport man charged with drunken driving after he runs out of gas
WILSON – Niagara County Sheriff’s deputies charged a Lockport man with aggravated drunken driving after he was found to have a blood alcohol level nearly three times the legal limit.Patrick J. Mack,...
View ArticleMan’s body pulled from the Upper Niagara River
NIAGARA FALLS – A man’s body was spotted in the Upper Niagara River just west of the New York Power Authority intakes and was pulled out by State Parks Police with help from an Erie County Sheriff’s...
View ArticleDrunken driver sent to state prison
LOCKPORT – James L. Mormino, who according to Niagara County Judge Sara Sheldon Farkas, has been arrested 12 times for alcohol-related driving offenses, was sentenced Monday to one to three years in...
View ArticleBudgets were manipulated to hide landfill costs, Niagara legislators are told
LOCKPORT – For years, the budgets of the Niagara County Refuse Disposal District have been manipulated to conceal the true cost of operating the district’s only active landfill, county legislators...
View ArticleYahoo incentive package to save company $45 million
LOCKPORT – Yahoo will save more than $45 million under the terms of a state and local package of tax breaks and electricity discounts for the second phase of the company’s data center in...
View ArticleCanada terror plot targets train that travels through Falls and Buffalo,...
WASHINGTON – Canadian authorities Monday arrested two men on terrorism-related charges in connection with an al Qaeda-linked plot that, according to U.S. officials, would have involved attacking a...
View ArticleWNY’s most toxic site defies U.S. effort, threatens water
Last of a three-part seriesBy T.J. Pignataro and Dan Herbeck // News Staff ReporterSIf nature runs its slow course, West Valley’s hilltop plateau where nuclear wastes are stockpiled could erode in as...
View ArticleHistorical timeline of West Valley Demonstration Project site
• 1962 – Nuclear Fuel Services Inc., a private corporation, reaches agreement with the federal Atomic Energy Commission and New York State to build a first-of-its-kind commercial nuclear...
View ArticleWomans who won fair-pay law named for her says fight continues
The woman whose efforts to establish pay equity between men and women resulted in President Obama’s first piece of legislation – the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act – says the battle is not...
View Article5 to 10 years in prison for man who shot up Lockport house
LOCKPORT – Kenneth W. Houghton Jr., a Lockport man who riddled a Genesee Street home with a shotgun blast Christmas night and later injured a police officer, was sentenced to five to 10 years in state...
View ArticleFalls man takes plea in assaults on women
LOCKPORT – A Niagara Falls man who had been charged with assaulting three women – two of his girlfriends and one of their mothers – settled the case by pleading guilty to two felonies...
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